The Matrix Fight Club American Beauty The Sixth Sense Being John Malcovitch The Green Mile The Blair Witch Project Run Lola Run Magnolia Arlington Road The Talented Mr. Ripley Princess Mononoke eXistenZ South Park Austin Powers Three Kings Election
I don't count Star Wars, even though it was the highest grosser
Tags: 1999 movies
...and hope I never do.
Get in a fight (fisticuffs, not verbal) Own a suit Get food poisoning (iron stomach!)
Sleep with a fat/ugly chick Get in a car accident Lose a loved one
Tags: list
workstation 0.1 beta
At my office I just got a beefy new HP workstation - a quad-core Xeon 3ghz beast that's built like a server. That meant I would need to setup a new OS and install + configure all the apps I use on a daily basis. *sigh* Time to roll up the sleeves and get to clicking! Here's what I consider my software essentials - I've got the same software installed at home and consider these to be essential to doing my job, playing online, or communicating with others. If you haven't heard of some of these apps, IMO they're worth checking out.
The workstation came preloaded with XP and had the Vista (32-bit) Restore Disk, but I opted to go with a fresh install of Vista 64-bit from my MSDN library. The first thing installed with Firefox, and I went from there...
Firefox + Addons
LastPass - syncs passwords across multiple PCs FoxMarks - syncs bookmarks across multiple PCs FireBug - the ultimate web developers tool Web Developer - another invaluable Firefox development tool
Delicious - where I share my links of interest online PicLens - full-screen 3D "wall" photo browsing that'll blow you away
Licensed Software
Office 2007 Sharepoint Designer 2007 Visual Studio 2008 Visual SourceSafe 2005
SQL 2005 Developer Edition (also turn on IIS)
Free/Open Source Apps
iTunes - I keep a backup of my home iTunes folder on a USB drive at work, so I've essentially got my music mirrored in two locations Live Mesh & DropBox- syncs files between work and home Vista Codec Package - helps my PC play every video file type out there FileZilla - FTP client (had to export/import configuration between PCs) Digsby - single IM client that handles all my accounts (gTalk, Yahoo, MSN, AIM)
Display Fusion - helps manage a dual-monitor setup
FWink - uploads webcam photos to my site via FTP on a timer (only my wife knows the link) Foxit Reader - lightweight PDF reader 7-Zip - all-in-one compression app Notepad++ - mostly use it to View Source in IE with color code and expand/collapse, but it's got a lot more to it Crap Cleaner - does what it says - it's a system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool uTorrent -BitTorrent client Picasa - photo management app from Google VLC - media player
Am I missing anything that you've found essential to your PC setup? I'm always looking for tools that make my life easier.
I was just listening to my favorite podcast - Deeper Shades of House podcast by Lars Behrenroth. In the 2 minute voice intro, he says "Enjoy this. Skin one up. If you don't know what that means, look it up. That's what Google's for."
So I did a Google search and didn't find what I was searching for on the first page. Hmmmm, that's odd. Must be so cool of a saying that even the Googles doesn't know what it means.
After clicking "Next" a few times, I stumbled on some verbiage from this site that makes sense:
Tiger then handed me a heavy sandstone pot. Inside was a roll of extremely thin cigarette paper and some really pungent weed.
"Skin one up," he said.
I realised that this was the practical part of the interview and that I would need to pass this test to prove myself as a proficient pot-manager. Unfortunately, I’d never learnt to roll joints terribly well.
So there you have it... it means to roll a joint. The next time someone's talking about pot, I'm going to throw that phrase out there to make myself look like I'm from the streets. Yeah, that'll work. Maybe I'll add a "bra" in there, so I sound Cali. "Skin one up, bra!"
[music:Bob Marley - Three Little Birds.mp3]
Tags: slang
I was cleaning out my huge pile of magazines in the bathroom and found myself reading Maxim's 300 Movies You Must See Before You Die.
I'm not surprised at how many movies I've seen - I worked at a video store for a summer when I was 16. Lots of time + minimum wage money + free movies = seeing most of the movies on this list. That made it really easy to notice what movies I haven't seen.
I've seen bits and pieces of a few of these, but watching 10 minutes of The Fly (edited for TV) doesn't do it justice. With the magazine in hand, I got on Netflix and queued up the following fims:
[music:End Of The Movie.mp3]
Tags: movies
Occasionally I'll need to migrate a WSS 2.0 site into a MOSS 2007 farm. From what I understand, the only way to do this is to upgrade the installation to WSS 3.0, then backup/restore it to the farm. Here's some tips I wish I knew about before getting started. But what happens if the upgrade goes horribly wrong and the only backups are FWP files? This happened to me recently - the database upgrade failed, corrupted the WSS 2.0 DB schema, and there were no DB backups. All I had as a backup were the nightly FWP files that are exported. The site was down, users are screaming, and there's no hope for getting that server back to a working state. What to do...
I uninstalled the WSS 3.0 installation, uninstalled WSS 2.0, then installed WSS 2.0, bringing the server back to a state where it was as clean as a fresh install. But when I attemped to use STSADM.EXE to restore the FWP files, I got this message:
"Your backup is from a different version of Windows Sharepoint Services and cannot be restored to a server running the current version."
Huh? They're both running WSS 2.0, but I didn't realize that it has to be the EXACT same minor version (service packs, hotfixes). There no way of finding out what version of Sharepoint it was from the FWP files, which makes the backups all but useless. After reading this post, aptly titled "Adventures in Migrating from WSS 2.0 to MOSS 2007", I started to panic (a little), but with enough tinkering, I was able to get the site back to a usable state. Here's how:
I erased the default empty team site
stsadm -o deletesite -url http://XXXX Created an untemplated site
stsadm.exe -o createsite -url http://XXXX -ownerlogin domain\username -owneremail bryan@urbandude.com Used smigrate to restore the site
smigrate -r -w http://XXXXX -f d:\backup\spdaily.fwp -u domain\username -pw MyPassword
This post is mostly a note to my future self, but hopefully a desperate/hopeless person out there finds this and it helps them out of a jam.
Tags: wss, stsadm
About a year ago, my boss has us go through a goal-setting excercise of identifying 20 things we wanted to do before we're 'done'. This was before the movie Bucket List came out, so it's wasn't that cliche. The first ten were easy, but the last ten was a bit of a struggle. Since this was over a year ago, some of my priorities/desires/dreams have changed a bit, so I'll need to create a new/fresh list at some point.
I've crossed through the ones I've completed. In no particular order:
Get a six pack Go on the honeymoon I never had Quit smoking Eat sushi in Japan Get LASIK Visit all 50 states Read Kurt Vonnegut Get drunk and shave my head Fly a kite in a park and not care how I look Take a vacation in St. Whatever Climb an artificial rock wall Learn how to ski Take my OWN car to the race track, which means I need to own a race-worty car Attend a developer conference in another city Find a way to show my parents how much I appreciate the way they raised me, then surprise them Buy back my grandma's '65 Mustang Fastback Ride in the MS 150 Make a toast Go to a live taping of the Daily Show _______________________
Post this on my blog and let someone else recommend my #20
Tags: 20 things
[music:The Weekend Has Landed.mp3]
The Weekend has Landed!
All the exists now is clubs, drugs, pubs and parties
I've got 48 hours off from the world, man
I'm gonna blow steam out of my head like a screaming kettle
I'm gonna talk codshit to strangers all night
I'm gonna lose the plot on the dancefloor
The free redicals inside me are freaking man!
Tonight I'm Jip Travolta, I'm Peter Popper
I'm going to never never land with my chosen family, man
We're going to get more spaced out than Neil Armstrong ever did
Anything could happen tonight, you know? This could be the best night of my life!
I've got 73 quid in my back burner
I'm gonna wax the lot, man!
The milky bars are on me! YEAH!
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Every Halloween I hear someone saying that razor blades in halloween candy is an urban legend. It's always a friend of a friend that knew someone.
To make it easier to keep the story alive, here's a photo of a decayed York Peppermint Pattie that I found in my back yard about 6 years ago. Yes, that's a well placed razor blade in there. It's not an urban legend. Sarah(s) (wife and sister) both had a WTF moment when it was cracked apart. There's some sick people out there...
[music:Michael+Jackson+vs+The+Prodigy+-+Thrillered.mp3]
Tags: halloween
Sarah and I have been married for 5 years. Wow! We leave tomorrow for Playa del Carmen to go on the honeymoon we never had. First-class international baby!!! I feel like a kid again, like I just met this crazy/sexy/cool girl. My feelings are summed up in this song. Click play. Do it.
[music:Angelmoon+-+He's+All+I+Want.mp3]
I loved this song before I met Sarah. I always hoped I would find someone that I would feel this way with. Then we found each other. I consider myself the luckiest guy in the world to have the life I have with her. Thank you for everything Sarah.
Since she's the writer of the house, she puts it into words much better than I could. I'll stick to doing what I do best - posting pictures!
Disclaimer: these are MY favorite photos of us. I'm sure Sarah will disagree with my selection, but isn't that what marriage is all about?
our wedding in Vegas
in Belize
Hawaii, I think. Or was it South Beach. They're all starting to blur together...
Halloween last year. Argh!
I love you boo-boo!
Tags: marriage
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