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That is the opening sentence of an article on the New York Times’ Opinionator dealing with obesity and exercise. According to this enlightening article by Olivia Judson,
It doesn’t matter if you go running every morning, or you’re a regular at the gym. If you spend most of the rest of the day sitting — in [...]

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“Blah, blah, blah.” Click! “Blah, blah, blah.” Click!
I was out of it yesterday (some sort of food poisoning) so I didn’t see the email from TEC 2009 proclaiming the availability of the slides from the conference sessions until this morning.
I groaned, partly because I [...]

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The longer I choose to strap myself into the gondola on that Ferris Wheel called Information Technology, the more I realize a basic truth (there are many, but this one outranks them all): homework.
There are too many of us—especially in the Windows world—who don’t do homework yet expect to get or be good at managing [...]

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How many reboots does it take for a Windows XP machine to screw in a light bulb?
I have no idea, but I know how many reboots it sometimes takes for some of my Group Policies to be applied, including most annoying, the GP-deployed software: two or more!

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So I downloaded and installed the cool-sounding Photodropper plugin and this is a test post for it:

photo credit: InnocentEyez
It works!
Nice…

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On the phone with a customer earlier today, I had to explain ad nauseam that email is not a guaranteed service!  The customer had been laudatory of our 100% uptime up until last night but a reboot of our Exchange server resulted in the SMTP service not running.
Now, we’d been having this problem intermittently and [...]

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As we all should know by now, Microsoft’s implementation of certain “standard” protocols is anything but and now I’ve found another, if one can believe a bunch of Brit systems administrators currently attending the same class I am.
The topic is Kerberos and the time skew built in to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks.  We all know about [...]

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Finally, we’ve finished the search for our empty position but the candidates we interviewed leading up to the eventual winner were … how shall I put this, bewildering?
One of them spoke for two hours in an interview that was scheduled for one. She wanted to continue talking even at the end of this ordeal [...]

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Happy Friday!
We’re hunting for our next colleague in interviews that will stretch out for the next two weeks .  The job advertisement is clear enough, I think: we need someone who understands the basics of Active Directory enough not to torch our forest the first day we let them loose in it and while you’re [...]

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Well good, it looks like I’ve found the theme I’m going to stay with.
The Chief Executive of my organization is tired. He’s tired of having almost 85 email servers and just as many Directories so that he can’t send an email at once to all his employees, all 14,000 of them.
Because of this, he [...]

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