Archives September 2008

If you read what I said before about Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack exam (70-656), well the vouchers DID run out.  That DID happen.  However, thanks to Trika! We now have more vouchers!

So, back to referencing all the goodness

Pass the Exam & Get the Goods!

How do you join the MDOP Charter Membership Program? It’s easy! All you have to do is take and pass the 70-656 Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, Configuring Exam…but there’s a catch…

…only the first 200 IT Pros who pass the 70-656 Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, Configuring Exam will be MDOP Charter Members who receive the exclusive MDOP Charter Member jacket and award!

Visit the MDOP Charter Program site for details, including Training plans!

So, thank you Trika for all of your help and helping grow the certification community!

Special thanks to Dan Rey for raising the flare about this, and our good friends at the MDOP Charter Program! Also, thanks to Trika for announcing the MDOP Program on her blog!

I want to make special mention of Vaughn Stewart of of the Virtual Storage Guy blog.

This guy is sharp, smart, and quite possibly one of the best resources you can tap regarding Virtualization as a technology for the past, present and future.

If you have virtualization involved in your datacenter, small, medium or large.  I’d keep a close watch on what he has to say :)

So, welcome his re-entry to the blogosphere with a visit to his blog! :)

So, timestamp’s aside, NetApp Blogs have snuck 4 more blogs into the blogosphere!

Fortunately for all of us as well, these happen to be some amazingly excellent blogs!

Check them out, and stay tuned for more!

I fought off LiveWriter for quite some time.  I did.  But then I said "Well, if I can do proper aspect ratio and movability of images" then I’m sold.

And I am/was sold.  Except it’s not exactly what it says on the tin.   Because it depends upon the browser.

I just published this wonderful article on the amazing and legendary Molly Marlette, and then came "Browser testing"  End result looks like this:

This is how it SHOULD look:

This is also how it happened to render inside of IE (Imagine that: No problem here)

Well, FireFox had different ideas, and looks like this:

Worse still, in my active testing process, Google Chrome comes out looking like this:

When I would write up my stuff manually (hacking the HTML as I went) I didn’t run into these alignment and formatting issues! I call it Browser Shock!

If you were to ask the question "Which Browser is right? They’re all reading the same data" I agree.  Except IE is correct, because is the WYSIWYG how I created it, so I would hope the other browsers would respect that and not be so absolutely different :)

So, if you happen to read across browsers and notice that sometimes my posts look abysmal – I blame the browser (And I do try to clean it up to look good across them, but as you can… it’s not exactly the most "winning" battle)

I go on a lot about latest, known and unknown technological innovations and other things we should know, or revisit again.   But it’s not too often I touch on this subject here – Music!

For those of you who know me, I’ve always been in-tune with music, so much that my music collection and lyrical capacity perhaps far exceeds most peoples musical collections throughout their entire life.  (I once went through a period of listening to music at 1.4x and 2.0x the speed in order to listen to more music faster….)   And I won’t even go into knowing the lyrics to every song I’ve ever heard and my 255 song TMBG Playlist…

Anyone with an appreciation for sheer and pure talent – should take the opportunity to check out this artist.    Recently interviewed by LA CityZine, she’ll surprise and delight you in one fell-swoop leaving you wondering how a talent so young is able to innovate and deliver on such a level.

Her adoption and use of instruments, riffs and tonal ambiguity is packaged like a veteran of musical delivery.

A true lyricist, miles beyond the trite, predictable rhymes of the average singer/songwriter. Instead of forcing her lyrics upon us, her delicate delivery quietly calls the listener to lean in closer. – The Allumette – EP

Molly Marlette doesn’t reinvent the diary-turned-lyrics wheel on her debut EP The Allumette; her wheel is just more interesting. From the first few bars of the opening track, “Sleep Must Heal the Heart,” it’s clear that this isn’t going to be another girl and her piano therapy session. Marlette, 20, is a true lyricist, miles beyond the trite, predictable rhymes of the average singer/songwriter. Instead of forcing her lyrics upon us, her delicate delivery quietly calls the listener to lean in closer. -The Deli LA

I definitely encourage you to check out her siren’s song which will woo you over as she has smitten so many.    From the moment I heard of her, I was hooked – You will be too. :)

Official Website

The Allumette – EP – $10.00 CD or MP3

Thanks for supporting an excellent Artist! You must sleep well, sleeping must heal the heart