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No, not everybody goes to heaven. Some have the hope of an earthly resurrection. But still, this was funny. A Tom Sawyer Moment... Three friends die in a car accident, and upon their arrival to heaven, they are all asked one question "When you are in your casket and family and friends are mourning upon you, what would you like to hear them say about you?" The first man says, "I would like to hear them say that I was a great doctor of my time, and a great family man." The second man says, "I would like to hear that I was a wonderful husband and school teacher who made a huge difference in our children of tomorrow." The last man replies: "I would like to hear them say: 'LOOK! HE'S MOVING!'"

What you'll get in today's post: Fam and Friends, a bit of an update Coders and Geeks, a bit of love from MSDN, or in other words, highlights. First off, why am I inspired? Last week, I realized, I have time to read RSS/Blog feeds with my PDA. So I installed pRSSreader on my Pocket PC. Sweet, I'm up to date on all I care about. Coding Then I went to the MSDN event in Harrisburg. Definitely not a snoozer. We talked about highlights of the new .Net 2.0 System.Net namespace, including a simple IsAvailable and Ping, so you can do some network checking in your apps, without major coding. Then they talked about Windows Communication Framework. They showed us how to do a Windows/Web Service on steroids. Write one app with a built-in service contract, and expose it via Web Services, Named Pipes (for same PC communication), TCP (for same network communication), and MSMQ, MS Messaging Queue (for disconnected messaging). They showed a basic example, but all the way from start to fin...

Check out the weblog of Ken and Sue Ive's . They will be going to Malaysia.

Can't even put into words. http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=19521

I added a link to another Blogger, my cousin Tom Kittrick. His should be interesting, as he's going to be leaving the United States, to live in Indonesia. His blog is called Selamut Datang BATAM . Batam Indonesia is where he will be living.

Ok, here's a Pet Peeve post: Me: What's on the screen? User: Nothing. Me: So, the screens black? Did the power go out? User: No, there's stuff on the screen. Me: What kind of stuff? User: Icons, Start... Me: So you can see the Desktop. User: Yea, and there's a message. Me: Did that just pop up or was it there when I asked what was on the screen? User: It was there, I didn't know you wanted to know that. Me: What does the message say? User: Something about an error. Me: Ok, I want to help you fix that error, but first I need to know exactly what the error message says. User: Oh, it says that file xxxxxxx.yyy can't be found. Me: Ok, I will send a copy of that file. Just to speed things along, can you read me any messages or errors that pop up, especially if I ask, 'What's on the screen.' User: Why do I have to do everything?!

I came up with what I thought was a funny story. Check it out here .

I'm raving about a new piece of software, Process Explorer . It's like Task Manager, but much better. It shows you each process, in a process tree. But you can change the View, to have a Lower Pane (window) with the DLLs that the process is using. Very cool. Anything Sys Internals does is awesome. They really make tools developers can benefit from.

Just finished Inca Gold, followed by Shock Wave. Shouldn't say just, but since the last post.

See if you can view it here: http://209.0.146.17/10/graphics/movies/movies_hate_commandments.wmv

I found the link in my previous post on the ' Most Popular ' section of www.i-am-bored.com.

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Yesterday, Tuesday, my father-in-law underwent Gamma Knife therapy for brain tumors. Some of you may know that he has had brain tumors for a few years now. He's had two surgeries, but the doctors say they cannot open his head any more. So they felt the Gamma Knife, focused, heavy doses of radiation, would be the next best thing. It was an outpatient procedure, requiring his head to be put in a halo. The halo was attached around 6AM with local anesthetic. The procedure began about 4:30PM. He was awake the whole time. The doctors did an MRI in the morning to get precise measurements for the tumors and said that it did not seem that they had grown much, and that there were no new growths. We'll know in 3 months how this treatment worked, when he has his next checkup.

In an effort to help others avoid the issues I've faced, I've compiled a brief check list of To-Dos when it comes to securing your computer. In the upper right corner of this page (Top of my menu) is Secure Windows. This is a page I've created with links that will help secure your windows installation. If you have anything you think should be added, let me know.

Never trust Microsoft to protect your Microsoft products. I had Windows Defender installed, which is supposed to block unwholesome software, it didn't. I was going through my e-mail, using (garbage pieace of #$%@#% crap) Outlook, with the preview window open. I right click on spam to mark it as junk mail, but of course, it loads it in the preview window. (When will you learn Kenyon!) Next thing I know, my AVG anti-virus is going berserk, and pop ups are loading all over the place. AVG kept the infestation down to under 100. But I had to log in on a second account, because mine was so messed up. I ran an AVG full scan, and Windows Defender scan. But STILL had to load Spybot Search & Destroy to clean a couple things Defender couldn't. Needless to say, my work PC was down most of the AM. Which brings me to my next point, Complete Wilderness Training ! At first I thought, 'Hugh McManners? How could a name like that write this book?' But I tell ya, he was a life saver. H...

I'm cleaning stuff off my old computer, before I move to the new one. I found a trove of funny stories. Therefore I've updated my Funny Stuff page. Enjoy!

'If you’re in a survival situation, the only thing you need to know about a spotted owl is that it tastes like chicken !!!' - Taken from the Survival Primer .

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