complich8′s journal

So I just watched a channel9 video about Microsoft’s Sharepoint 2007 last night. It was interesting, how they’ve basically rolled their CMS product and their collab product into the same suite, and basically turned sharepoint from what seems to me to be a mediocre, spotty product into one that could be reasonably useful. Now, microsoft [...]

I just realized … I’ve been on wordpress for a bit over a year. I started using it over GrayMatter in April, 2005. … I really need to import that old graymatter rss feed, huh! Guess that’s what I’ll do in the gaps at work! … Oh, and I’d say, other than random database glitches [...]

I don’t remember if I’ve written on this one before or not … Newton wrote “If I have seen farther than others it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants”. In the process of what he did, he himself became a giant, on whose shoulders much of modern understanding still rests. It’s [...]

You know, Stephen Colbert is a pretty funny guy. Excellent at what he does. Always extremely pointed. Almost always in character, too. Lots of people love his show … calling it as good as, or even better than the Daily Show. And you know, if you’re into what he’s doing, then minute for minute he’s [...]

A couple days ago I set up an AD domain controller for my workplace. I was faced with a dilemma that I still am not 100% decided on: what should I do about passwords? See, the passwords my users are using right now are really, incredibly, disturbingly weak. They’re short, they’re bad, they’re all-lowercase dictionary [...]