There is just about 17 days to go till we prepare for the first state precincts to go, and the quad-annual rush to various media outlets to see what the exit polls have produced, and soon a new president will be announced. This has been at the very least an interesting exercise in our political process. From the underdog in the Democratic party taking on the inevitable Clintons’s re-ascension to the top post, to McCain getting written off every day by the MSM only to claim the crown of the Republican party, it seemed that we would have a relatively civil debate coming into the waning days till...

I recently purchased some new Dell Optiplex 755′s and ran into an issue with one of my most tried and true tools, Ghost. I have used Ghost for a very long time but there is a growing issue with SATA drivers that rendered using ghost useless since it wouldn’t recognize the DVD-R drive. In a quick rush I started to research alternatives and ran into Windows Deployment Services (WDS). I used it’s predecessor (RIS) a couple times in the past and really didn’t like it, so I was walking into this project with the notion that I could dislike it. I can say that ended up being farthest...

It’s been quite a while since I posted anything political on my blog, hell the last post I had Hillary was still in the race. Since then Obama became the presumptive nominee, Tim Russert suddenly passed, and some people have been getting mad that Obama has been turning a bit more “towards the middle” for the upcoming general election. First some are up in arms that Obama is now wearing a flag pin. For the record he has never said he won’t wear one, but that for some people wearing one “became a substitute for, I think, true patriotism.” With him wearing one now he...

I am still following the Democratic nomination race and didn’t have much to post up since it has seemed for a while that despite Hillary’s desperate attempts to get the nomination are futile, her rhetoric had calmed down some and with the win in Oregon Obama’s path to clinch it is pretty inevitable. But Hillary has outdone herself once again and it dives into the more personal truths about her. On May 22, she had repeated some comments that went largely unnoticed in March of 2008 about one of the reasons she is staying in the race. Nearly verbatim this is her most recent...

I haven’t been able to post much of late thanks to a lack of time. The daily grind of work has been insane the last couple weeks thanks to us switching over to a new pipe (from 1.5MB to 4.5MB) to our CT office and switching over to a hosted VoIP solution with a company called Smoothstone. The transition went pretty smooth considering and as of Thursday night the majority of things had finally completed. Over the next couple months I will keep an eye on the system and give a real work view of what they offer.

The 21st debate in the Democratic race was bound to be a sleeper debate. After a year long bout of debates, whittling down from 8 candidates to 2, many issues had been brought to the forefront and some talked ad nasuem. But the 21st debate in Philadelphia, hosted by ABC and moderated by Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos (a former Clinton aid) treaded into new territory of yellow journalism. The two-hour commercial laden event fell well short of even the loosest definition of a debate. Barack Obama with his front-runner status was inundated with a number of right-field questions. If you heard it...