Young criminal in the making

So I stopped into the local CVS store this evening to pick up a few things and upon reaching the registers I noticed quite the funny and yet disturbing exchange of words. Here’s a lady with her 3 year old child and a store employee. The mother is telling her child that taking things without [...]

U.S. and International Efforts and Aid

This morning I had the pleasure of reading a single wall post on Facebook that generated 52 comments in 8 hours. The wall past was “F*ck Haitians” and the explained purpose of this post was anger over the US raising money and aiding Haiti as a result of the earthquake. This finally tipped me over [...]

Exmerge – Permissions Error

When running the Microsoft Exmerge utility, you may receive the following error in your exmerge.log file:
Error opening message store (MSEMS). Verify that the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service is running and that you have the correct permissions to log on. (0×8004011d)
Even though you may be a Domain Admin or Enterprise Admin, you will still receive [...]

Vikings lose in OT. Controversy over NFL's OT rules.

So it’s the NFC Championship game and two great teams are playing. The Minnesota Vikings and the New Orleans Saints. At the end of the 4th quarter, the score is tied at 28. According to NFL regulations, there is to be a coin flip and the winning team gets first possession. The first team to [...]

Buckeye Beer Engine – Fan-fraking-tastic!

A few posts ago, I warned all three of you readers about the dangers that come with visiting a place called “Lucky’s Cafe” in Tremont. Well, Thursday I tested another local place and am pleased to report the opposite experience.
Lets start with service – it was fast, courteous and efficient. Order was taken quickly. Food [...]

Update Time

It’s been a while. Things are going well. I’ve been pretty busy. I moved to a new apartment over Thanksgiving. (I love it!) My web design business has been growing. (Extra money always helps) I am starting vocal lessons next weekend. Yes, that’s what I said – vocal lessons. My hopes are to get good [...]

To all those Browns fans out there…

As many of you know, I am a wholehearted Pittsburgh Steelers fan. With the Clowns …er… Browns getting lucky recently by getting their first win over the Steelers in 13 meetings, all of a sudden all the Browns fans are talking smack. 1 win in 13 games – that’s a 5.25% win ratio. And you [...]

Lucky's Cafe in Tremont Ohio

So if you aren’t aware, Food Network has a show called “Diners, Drive-ins and Dives” where the guy named Guy goes around and reviews these small places. Well a place in Tremont called “Lucky’s Cafe” was visited and reviewed well by Guy. One if the dishes he had was the Reuben sandwich which I love [...]

sysprep fails on Windows 2008 Server Enterprise and Standard

When running sysprep tool with the /generalize switch on Windows Server 2008 Standard, I received the following errors (viewable in C:\Windows\System32\sysprep\panther\setupact.log):
Error [0x0f0082] SYSPRP LaunchDll:Failure occurred while executing ‘C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer returned error code 2
Error [0x0f0070] SYSPRP RunExternalDlls:An error occurred while running registry sysprep DLLs, halting sysprep
execution. dwRet = 2
Error [0x0f00a8] SYSPRP WinMain:Hit failure while processing [...]

Android Phones coming soon to Verizon

Well, Verizon and Google had a joint press conference announcing the soon coming release of two Android powered Smartphones on the Verizon network. While they didn’t give many specific details, they said the release would be “in the coming weeks”. While they didn’t specify what phones, Verizon CEO and Google CEO were holding what seems [...]