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  • Daily Humor

    I was forwarded a hilarious link from Bud.  It’s a little late for St. Patty’s day, but it’s well worth the watch.  There are so many things wrong with this news clip, I don’t know where to begin.

  • Happy Birthday!

    Happy Birthday Bree!  You’re so old!  ;-P

  • V for Vendetta

    Last night Erin and I went to see “V for Vendetta” at Hollywood Blvd.  The place was packed, but it was fun nonetheless.  Nothing like getting served alcohol while at the movies to make it a little bit more fun than normal.

    Anyways, the movie was quite good.  The special effects weren’t over the top, ala “The Matrix”, but instead a good addition to the story.  And the story was also good.  Granted, it was ripped from a comic book, but it still fit the adaptation to the big screen adequately. 

    Speaking of story, talk about a great time to release the movie.  With everything that’s happening in Guantanamo Bay, and the President’s approval rating being so low, I don’t think the timing of the movie could be any better for the Wachowski brothers. 

  • Links 3/17

    I think today’s link should be entitled the “who would have thought” links.

    • Drinking Sugary Beverages Increases Body Fat—Wow, whoda thunkit, when your net caloric intake is more, your body converts more to fat, huh?  I mean, come on, who are these “scientists” that do this sort of “research”?  I was thinking maybe I should conduct a study to see if brain damage is increased by beating my head with a hammer.
    • Atkins Diet Possible Health Risk—No Comment

  • New VW Commercials

    I just can’t get enough of the new “Un-Pimp My Ride” commercials from VW.  So much so, that I’ve linked them below for you viewing pleasure.  Also, I was informed about the “Make Friends with Your Fast” commercials, which, while not quite as funny, are quality none-the-less.

    Un-Pimp My Ride: Crate

    Un-Pimp My Ride: Wrecking Ball

    Un-Pimp My Ride: Trebuchet

    Make Friends with Your Fast: Hair

    Make Friends with Your Fast: Streamlined

    Make Friends with Your Fast: Officer

    Make Friends with Your Fast: Take-Out

  • Links 3/16

    • BioWall + Vines—This would be great in a window.

  • Links 3/15

    • No Sex Toys in Mississippi—Gotta love Xeni’s comment
    • Continental Divide Trail Volunteering—If I were to be out there, this looks like a lot of fun.
    • Debit Card Fraudsters Busted—Apparently this is why so many people were having problems with their debit cards.
    • PS3 Not Until Nov 2006—Theres a total non-shocker.  Price is the only thing left, and the speculation looks high.

     

  • Another Reason Why Project Server Blows

    The project server here at work hasn’t been connecting to our internal WSUS server, and I noticed that it was missing a few security patches.  Since WSUS wasn’t working, I decided to visit Windows Update.  HA, well that doesn’t work either.  So I open up the %systemroot%WindowsUpdate.log and find the following error.

    WARNING: WinHttp: SendRequestToServerForFileInformation failed with 0x80190191
    WARNING: WinHttp: ShouldFileBeDownloaded failed with 0x80190191
    WARNING: DownloadFileInternal failed for http://download.microsoft.com/v6/windowsupdate/redir/wuredir.cab: error 0x80190191
    * WARNING: Failed to synchronize, error = 0x80244017
    WARNING: WU client failed Searching for update with error 0x80244017
    >>— RESUMED —COMAPI: Search [ClientId = WindowsUpdate]
    – Updates found = 0
    – WARNING: Exit code = 0x00000000, Result code = 0x80244017
    ————-
    — END — COMAPI: Search [ClientId = WindowsUpdate]
    ——————-
    WARNING: Operation failed due to earlier error, hr=80244017
    FATAL: Unable to complete asynchronous search. (hr=80244017)

    Doing a quick search on the error code on Google brings me to a lot of pages about proxy settings.  However, I’m not running a proxy server anywhere, and I’m not running ICF on the project server either.  What is going on?!

    Then I see a link about project server with this error.

    I now know that project server uses a proxy server with WSS.  How stupid can that be?  Well, basically, I added our local WSUS server to the bypass list.  I also did it for *.microsoft.com, but that still doesn’t seem to be allowing me to hit Windows Update.  Oh well, at least it can update from someplace.

     

  • Certified

    Well, today I passed my last required MCSE test.  In three months, I’ve been able to complete the 7 required tests.  Unfortunately, I still have one more on my plate though, because I want to get the MCSE: Security certification.  Thankfully the remaining test is simply an elective exam, so I can probably kill that in a week.  Not having any of this pressure on me for the rest of the year will be nice too.  I’m definitely glad I got this out of the way before summer rolled around.

  • Links 3/13