October 2008 - Posts
Why not today? Why not right now? I woke up this morning and checked a few things using my brand spankin' new Dell e6500... My CPU spun up to 100% which it had done several times in the past thanks to some of the Dell-installed utils like SMManager.exe.
I looked around for the culprit but couldn't find anything fishy. "I'll do the safe shutdown and reboot - everything will be fine," or so I thought. When the box finally got through closing the open apps, finished shutting down and started going through the restart sequence, the thing blue screened right when I'd expect the Vista logo to show up. I rebooted a couple times, ran some diagnostics, ran some more diagnostics, ran the really hard-core ones that take hours...
So, while my diagnostics were running, why not play a little NCAA'09 - nothing soothes like pounding some t-sips and listening to that nationally famous Fightin' Texas Aggie band play Noble Men of Kyle with every touchdown (custom stadium sounds = teh coolness)... except that a few minutes into my game, the system shutdown (black screen). "Ah man!" I rebooted the XBOX, restarted my game and a few minutes later, black screen... I called 1-800-4My-XBOX - their systems are down right now so I can't open a ticket but the guy is pretty sure I'm going to have to send it back. Great.
Got a haircut, had a shower...
I went back to my laptop - diagnostics all finished - nothing is wrong with the laptop according to the diagnostics. There's no temp meter I can find in the BIOS but I'm sure now that the CPU is overheating - I've let the laptop cool - we'll see later. Go back to the XBOX - it's been a few hours since I played it last. Power on - the mythical Red Ring of Death... Well, at least I know what the problem is. My XBOX got the red-ring-worm... My second one... Thank you MS for the three-year-warrantee... Starting to wonder how many times I'll get to use it.
Laptop status? Man, I don't care anymore. I'm going out.
Thanks to an acquaintance I follow on Twitter, I learned about an addictive little site called Twitter Grader. I'm currently an 84 but I have a feeling I'll be spending more time marketing my personal brand to get my following and my score up!
I'm out checking out some of my followers now... Ugh! I'm an adict!
We're launching a new concept in Community Server 2008 called embedded forums (currently dogfooding). What you see right here is how this embedded forum works (go ahead and create a comment - the comment will be posted to a test forum on CommunityServer.com):
The way this thing works is that there's a tab in our forums app that let's you set some parameters for how embedable (embedible? embeddable? embed-able?) forums should work and Community Server provides you with a script tag that you can drop on basically anything.
Now we have the ability to comment on basically any content! I tested this for the first time while on a demo with a client - I know that's a bad idea! I told them as I did it that it was a bad idea but it was just too easy; I had to do it and it worked out great. I just dropped the script below in a local HTML file sitting on my desktop the loaded the HTML in my browser...
The script provided by Community Server for this forum is:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://dev.communityserver.com/forums/9/embed.aspx"></script>
I can drop that script in a Graffiti site, right here in my blog, on an HTML page - whatever... So easy! Every page that uses that above script will create a different thread back on the CommunityServer.com site in the Test Forum (No Anonymous Posts) forum.
Feel free to drop the script above on anything you want to test the functionality! I can't guarantee that the forum will remain open to support this embedded script but it works for now!
I met Coach Billick in New York this week at the Sports Marketing 2.0 Conference (sponsored by Telligent). At the post-conference reception, I was able to tell the coach that I enjoyed his talk and he stood and talked with me and a couple other Telligenti (Jason and Burt) for 5 or 10 minutes. He's really approachable and it was great to meet him.
By the way, I think Coach Billick is about 8 feet tall. His college playing height in 1976 is listed at 6'4"... I think inches were bigger in the 70's. This man is HUGE.
"If you kill the joe, make some mo!" This is Marcus Glover, the creator and man behind Reebok's Terry Tate, the office linebacker.
Marcus told me that he just finished doing some new stuff with Terry Tate and it was launched today!
www.returnofterrytate.com/
My family and I drive to a lot of our vacation destinations (it just
make sense with a family of 6!). On a recent trip, we stopped for gas
and snacks. Attached to the gas station, conveniently, was a Dairy
Queen. While paying for a couple blizzards (M&M for my wife and
chocolate covered strawberries, extra chunky for me), I found the
donation jar pictured here for Heather Bock. If you can't read the
photo, let me transcribe the message taped to the jar:
Donations: Heather Bock is 19 yrs old. Recently dingoes with Lupus the
decease have attracted her spinal cord, paralyzing Heather from the
ribs down. ALL DONATIONS ARE FOR MEDICAL AND TRAVEL ESSENCES. THANK YOU
AND GOD BLESS.
If you can help with the medical essences related to the attracted
Lupus dingoes, please send donations to a random Dairy Queen somewhere
East of Texas.
This is a test post from
, a fancy photo sharing thing.