Month: August 2011
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Training Plan B
After a friend pointed out last night that my training plan was liable to result in the destruction of my Achilles tendon, we came up with an alternate plan based on this. Since I don’t have 3 months to prepare for a half marathon, we decided to start at week 7, and after accounting for…
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Tech Tip: Optimus
One of the fancy “new” features on my Latitude E6420 that I got a month or so ago was an nVidia technology called Optimus, which can help save battery life by reverting to onboard Intel graphics if applications don’t need the high graphics bandwidth the dedicated GPU can provide. I say “new” because this is…
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Half marathon training plan
I’ll begin with a confession: I’ve really slacked off in the last month since the Holland Hundred. I wasn’t running a whole lot before then either, but I could at least say I was training for a 70 mile bike ride. I had basically stopped working out altogether, and now it shows. I had made…
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Three-Day Weekends
Something that I take a certain degree of razzing over at work is my habit of using vacation days to create three-day weekends. This weekend is the second in 3 weeks that I lengthened, originally for a planned camping trip. Unfortunately I wound up not going, but given that it’s raining up there this weekend,…
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Trapped in the elevator
Yesterday I got trapped in an elevator at work for 30ish minutes. I’ve been stuck in elevators before, and if it weren’t for the fact that I had a pretty good feeling that I was going to get stuck, I would have lost faith in my theory that, much like being struck by lightning, you…
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MCITP: Enterprise Admin
The one lousy thing about a job in the IT field is that things are always changing. Microsoft (when they have it together) puts out a new client and server OS every 3 years or so, and that means that IT folks have to stay current. Instead of going back to school, they get re-certified.…