What did I say???!! :)

For decades, conventional wisdom has held that daylight-saving time, which begins March 9, reduces energy use. But a unique situation in Indiana provides evidence challenging that view: Springing forward may actually waste energy.

Daylight Saving Wastes Energy, Study Says - WSJ.com


When the great DST debate was going on here in Indiana I always said that it wasn't about energy savings. There may be plenty of reasons to do it from a sociological point of view. The hours that I personally wasted on calendar servers and setting other servers to understand that they were leaving one time zone (not just following DST mind you) are significant. My point: you aren't saving daylight, just having it at a different (arbitrary) time. I also said that there were programs out there that would have to be re-coded to show that an Indiana Zip Code no longer put you in that "Indiana EST" time zone but now into wherever it fell on the new chart. Not quite a Y2K size issue, but still more than a non-event.
Anyway to go back now would also be a pain in my rear, so that's not my point :)
I probably want to come back to this post to make my point a little more clear so if you read it before that, oopsie. I was mostly done with this dead horse of an issue after all my machines flipped.

The Matz Brewing Company

The Matz Brewing Company
A friend of mine was chatting with me on IM today, and sent me a couple links. I wonder if I am related. Anyway it was a good thing to find on a friday. I am going to change my phone's background at least for a while :)
more about it here.

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Absence by Exchange 2007

I have been not doing much personal e-mailing, blogging, twittering, or even sleeping. I try not to dive into my day-to-day at work on here (not that there is a precedent set one way or the other really). Let me tell all both of you who read this, I am working a lot. To write this little post I am taking a little break from working more or less non-stop for a couple weeks now. When it's done we will have a nice e-mail farm. I can't wait for it. At one point I was going to document the entire process on a separate blog. Something that others about to undertake this migration or something like it would be able to read. It could help them listing our pitfalls, lessons learned, and other fun facts of an Exchange 2007 install in Academia. I have been keeping notes, but not writing anything. If this doesn't kill me I may go back and do it. (I really do enjoy throwing myself into a project, and this one will affect the most people directly out of any I have done to date.) Okay, back into the pool!

I'm trying jott.com's...

I'm trying jott.com's service to the blog, let's see how this works. Probably have to add it later. Tag. listen

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Best buisness card... EVER

O.K. the picture is too big for me to link here, and I don't want to host someone else's image directly, so click there to see it. :)

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On my way to work

Today on my way to work I went by a school zone that was flashing. It was after school had started by my estimation. Either they started late today, or it was a malfunction. So instead of going down my normal route, I turned and took another way. This made sense to me. I thought to myself, I will show them!
The alternate route I took is always 20 MPH.
It still felt like a victory.

Boy, I suck at Rock Band

I was reading an article on how to get better at the drums on Rock Band and I found this link on the worlds record of fastest drummer. Wow. Anyway the point of this post is that I really stink at the drums on the game. In fact, I am not all that good at any of the parts. But as they say practice makes perfect...

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