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This morning I was reading an article about Ray Kurzweil and it reminded me of a longtime story idea bumping around in my head. My last story idea, which didn't stay on the site too long; I am fairly certain, was made into a B-horror flick and was shown on late-night TV. Never watched it, but at that point I was posting my ideas to a site called StoryBytes. (Each story had to be a binary length, i.e. 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128... words long).

I am working on a project to cleanup a ton of DNS entries. Every once in a while, I find two A records pointing to the same IP address. To clean-up the extra entry, I am running a quick NBTStat -A against the IP address to see what NetBEUI name replies.

As I am learning some of the benefits (and quirks) to PowerShell, I am finding new ways to take advantage of the language. Besides the enormous user community out there available via Google, there are a number of people all trying to do the same thing. It appears that we are all very excited about the simplicity and complexity of Powershell.

I've been working to revise (yet again) my User export script to write to a single CSV file and to include additional fields. Using the Scripting Guys recent post, I was able to find the Powershell value for when an account was created. Oddly, the same value in VBScript?! :) Next I used my sample from my LastLogonTime field to span several OUs into a single CSV file. The normal  export-csv does not appear to span, simply over-write.

I have recently been forced to defend myself against a vague policy. This policy while nothing more than a dress-code at my daughter's daycare, got me thinking about the importance of putting things down in writing. It reminds me of a line from something I read once, "If it is not put down in writing, it does not exist." You can apply this with virtually anything, be it from corporate policies, dress-codes or people. I write, therefore I do.

Meg hadn’t heard from Devon in four months, and she realized that she missed him. So on a whim she tossed her sword and scabbard into the trunk of her car and drove over to campus to visit him.

While in between chapters of my other podcasts, I've subscribed to a new series from Decoder Ring Theater, called "The Red Panda Adventures". These stories are done in the style of the old radio dramas, with sound-effects and a full-cast of characters.

Plot: Imagine Batman (billionaire playboy with super-gadgets) in Toronto, Canada with a 'sexy' female sidekick, The Flying Squirrel.

The stories are a lot of fun and only about 25-30 minutes long. I enjoyed listening to the first season last week on my way to and from work; finishing a story each way. The innuendo can be bit obvious at times and there are sections of violence, so I won't be playing these with the family. Overall, I'd suggest you check them out!

Kit Baxter, Behave yourself! Yes Boss.

Like most people my age, I need to work to pay the bills. Working means commuting. Since I work IT, and my schedule is rather variable, I commute solo. Since MP3 have become popular, I have given up on commercial radio and I am either listening to a podcast (assuming no dead batteries) or no music at all. Needless to say, it also gives me quite a bit of time to think and muse about various topics in life, be it driving styles, time travel or just something that hit me with pop-culture.

During our last vacation, we rented a car. The car was a typical American sedan (sorry don't remember the model), seating 4.

The rental provided these easy instruction to escape the car if ever kidnapped and stuffed in the trunk. Only problem is you have to read them in the dark as it didn't contain a reading-light

I have been attempting to do some cleanup of the Active Directory environment. My latest endeavor is to capture the last logon time from AD and correlate it to active accounts. If they're not logging on, maybe they don't know how, or don't need a mailbox??

6 years ago when I started this site, it was to share pictures with family. My wife and I just found out she was pregnant. Excited geek that I was, I created a simple site with some info about what was going on. I hoped that my family and friends would enjoy the pictures and news that I had to share. As time went on, I started to post about status on home projects, then IT projects I worked on.