So I was emailed(Wait how’d the internets get my address?) a question last week. The question was:<summarized>I like your web site it seems kinda interesting. However what is up with the incoherent Mikes Links Monday feature? The links and pictures are all over the place and what is with animated gifs? Have you not heard of flash or the new silverlight? Please stop making the internets an ugly place. </summarized> I agree the Mikes Links Monday are a hodge podge of ideas that just fall out. Especially the pictures. The pictures are found all over the crazy cloud of...

I was doing some reminiscing and found some of my favorite videos from the past. Besides every blogger needs the obligatory tech support video page so here is mine.  Thanks Youtube. Middle ages Tech Support: Star Wars Help Desk: Arnold Schwarzenegger calls HP Tech Support: Tech Support:   Technorati Tags: Great Collection of Tech Support Videos,Tech Support Videos,Videos de tech support,Support of the tech kind LiveJournal Tags: Great Collection of Tech Support Videos,Tech Support Videos,Videos de tech support,Support of the tech kind ...

Sad news today. George Carlin Died of Heart Failure. He brought us the 7 deadly words. Most of what the FCC use as their rules for over the air. Been fighting with Spyware for better over a week now. Have 4 workstations and 3 servers with a nasty little trojan. I had the name of it. However I have lost my notes on it. Publish it later. Sorry. So the final nail in the coffin for Yahoo. Multiple Chairmen and presidents are running not walking away. Looks like the shareholders will file class action lawsuit....

So I collect some mobile applications for my Pocket PC/Phone. Some good mostly lame or beta. Here is a bunch of Applications good or bad that I have sitting on my Pocket PC phone right now. Fring a Application that promises the world at least it maps to all your messenger and social sites for you. Last.FM mobile Very Beta buy plays tunes over my data connection. *Warning can cost lots of money unless you have a unlimited data plan. Pocket Gravity Not sure where I picked this one up. Fun using Geometry. Pocket Sand...

So in our trip to Lego Land 3 weeks ago I discovered Lego Land Minitures. This was my favorite part of Lego Land Here is the Pictures I took.   ...

Firefox by far is the best browser. Be sure to help the cause. Go Download   Support Firefox by pledging your download support Flickr Tags: Firefox, Firefox3, Download day 2008, Download download download BuzzNet Tags: Firefox, Firefox3, Download day 2008, Download download download Technorati Tags: Firefox, Firefox3, Download day 2008, Download download download del.icio.us Tags: Firefox, Firefox3, Download day 2008, Download download download IceRocket Tags: Firefox, Firefox3, Download day 2008, Download download download LiveJournal Tags: Firefox, Firefox3, Download...

So here is my deep thought for the week: Why do public garbage cans have a door (with a very tightly wound spring holding them closed) on them? This plaques me only because I am done with lunch and I am going to use my tray to wedge the wrappers I have left on it into the this garbage can and hopefully dump the contents into the garbage can before the wrappers or used sauce packets come flying at me like a recently hit baseball out of Yankee stadium. On a completely different subject. Yahoo looks to be...

As you all know or now know I am a System Administrator at night. So I had to go through some serious tests to get these. Really! The Certifications are also known as “poke in the eye” or “put out the lights” on the Server,Workstation,Desktop or even Laptop.  To get these Certifications you need to learn simple things like windows key –> U – S for shutdown or –R for Restart. This works on all Microsoft OS’s except for Vista and Server 2008. I am awaiting the special training on those.   ...

People constantly ask: Will you build me a site as a favor? The answer is no unless your my wife or my mom. Some business’s think that a web developer or designer are gifted and it is just easy to put something on the web. To them I say if you want free go create a site on blogger or on myspace.com. Still the question remains: How much should a site cost? Remember a developer can develop and a designer well designs and you will want it (the site) maintained. These costs are not usually included unless...

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Truncating All Transaction Logs in SQL Server Thanks to Jeremy Jameson SQL Guru DROP TABLE #CommandQueue CREATE TABLE #CommandQueue ( ID INT IDENTITY ( 1, 1 ) , SqlStatement VARCHAR(1000) ) INSERT INTO #CommandQueue ( SqlStatement ) SELECT 'BACKUP LOG [' + name + '] WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY' FROM sys.databases WHERE name NOT IN ( 'master', 'model', 'msdb', 'tempdb' ) DECLARE @id INT SELECT @id = MIN(ID) FROM #CommandQueue WHILE @id IS NOT NULL BEGIN DECLARE @sqlStatement VARCHAR(1000) SELECT ...

  I know what your thinking. Oh crap here he goes again with recommending tools and or services. My question is have I ever steered you wrong? Yes I normally deal in freeware tools. Mostly due to me being cheap and thinking my skills should push me past that latest issue with code. So why recommend a commercial tool? Good question. A friend recommended to me this tool. I had used tools like .net reflector to look into DLL’s to understand the application I am adding. I had heard rumor of NDepend however with all the different “N” products out there...

Being an avid Amazon purchaser? S3 Web Service application Constantly buying books. Mp3’s when they have them. Albums. ETC. So when Amazon.com goes down life is interesting since I have all my backups being sent to the S3 service. My mp3 licenses are there too. Oh no. Amazon went down around 11am Mountain time. Did not come back online until 1:00pm Mountain Time. No explanation or oops our entire enterprise went dark sorry. Now about 11am today June 9 2008 the same behavior. Do I trust amazon to...

Yes your seeing it. I missed a week. I know. Bad mike! Well here is my excuse if you want to know. I returned from So. Cal last Sunday night without any links due to all my wonderful hotels in So. Cal had 0 Internet access or at least had extremely dirty networks (please remove mind from gutter). I also had to work both jobs starting Sunday night late night. So there. Here is my rant from my trip: Please for the love of your money. Do not stay at the MGM/Mirage owned hotel casino (resorts). Very...

So I had to add this. Check out the web celebs in the video.   Technorati Tags: Pork and Beans,Weezer,This Rocks LiveJournal Tags: Pork and Beans,Weezer,This Rocks Flickr Tags: Pork and Beans,Weezer,This Rocks del.icio.us Tags: Pork and Beans,Weezer,This Rocks IceRocket Tags: Pork and Beans,Weezer,This Rocks 43 Things Tags: Pork and Beans,Weezer,This Rocks BuzzNet Tags: Pork and Beans,Weezer,This Rocks