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Teaching with an Edge

"MIT professor and Web star Walter Lewin swings from pendulums and faces down wrecking balls to show students the zany beauty of science. "It took me a decade to come to the realization," says Lewin at his MIT office, "that really what counts is not what you cover, but what counts is what you uncover." "You have to challenge [students]. You have to be a little fun. I could make them sit on the edge of their seats, I could make them wet their pants." — Walter Lewin...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Someone lost their Nokia N95 phone at the SharePoint conference

battery seems to be flat so they can't call its number to find me. Email me if it is yours... I went to hand it in but there is no lost and found service. I'll try and charge the phone so you can call it later. Mirrored on SharePoint Blogs Posted Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Windows 2008 MCTS Charter Member

Yes! I just got the results back from the three Microsoft Windows 2008 TS beta exams: I passed all three of them! And oh how do I just love the ' Charter Member ' addition. It just gives you that extra warm and fuzzy feeling... Exam 070-640 Technical Specialist: Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Exam 070-642 Technical Specialist: Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Exam 070-643 Technical Specialist: Windows Server 2008 Applications Mirrored on SharePoint Blogs Posted on SharePoint...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Being a Gentleman in Business

Differences should always be solved with the best interest of the client in mind. This will ensure a good relationship with your client from which both of you will benefit. It is often that I see people or companies struggling and fighting however. Fighting to keep the client which they tend to see as solely theirs, obstinately refraining their employees from transferring to the client and putting their feet in the sand in spite of sound judgement which should be telling them otherwise. And you know...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Dear Johnny... (very sappy)

So I figured this might be a bit better than a card for Valentine's Day. I'm not sure how anyone in the development community will take this entry, but here goes. The past year has been one of the best, even though there were points in time where I wanted to kill you. I love you despite all the obvious flaws with stinky socks and horrible breath. I love how you get the weird qualities that I have and all my geeky ways. I love how everyday I get to see you come home, rather than wait to see you every other week. In fact I look forward to the time that you come home everyday. It never gets old, even if we have lived together since June. Even if you joke about murdering my cats I still know you are kidding just to get a rise out of me. I love that too. There really isn't anything that completely breaks the deal that I have learned about you in the past four years. I think that you are one of the bes things that has happened to me (aside from Gambit). I hope that you have a Happy Valentine's Day my love:) Posted on SharePoint Blogs Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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What's in the Pipline for Me in the Future...

I have a lull at work as it happens every once in a while, so of course you see me post at least once a day. I am kind of ADHD when it comes to having nothing to do at work. Today I went through SharePointFeeds.com about 800 times refreshing the OMEA Reader, looked up some Silverlight creation tools, played around with a few PowerShell Tools, and now I find myself at this blog yet again. I am half waiting for a book proposal to get pushed through a publishing company that contacted me. I just sent out a family tree that I updated and created through Ancestry.com last night. Also, in March I will be presenting again at the Kansas City Office Developer Group and I have signed up for this event: http://geekswithblogs.net/dbutscher/archive/2008/01/31/coders-4-charities--kansas-city-non-profit-charity.aspx. So basically I have a little bit of exploratory time and then it's going to hit me like no other in a week or so. I hate sitting around and doing nothing, but it's awesome to be able to do so. There are no metaphorical stacks of papers falling on top of me devouring my whole being. So does anyone have any good suggestions on technologies that are new and emerging while I wait or in general know of a need to fill some gap in SharePoint that you want me to work on? Also, does anyone know a good resource for training materials on the four SharePoint Exams that MS Offers? Posted on SharePoint Blogs Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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My Family...Specifically My Dad...

I don't like writing about too much personal stuff in this blog. I usually save it for my anonymous blogspot entries where I usually free style write. I wanted to throw out a good reason why I don't post as often as I would like. My dad has been having a really hard time the past few months. A month ago I got this really bizarre call from my mom that entailed her speaking with an EMT and not directly at the voicemail. I gave her a call on her cell, but she didn't answer. Finally my dad answers, but he's shaking. He was giving a speech in front an Interfaith Dialogue Group in front of his friends and he started shaking. I was really worried. Luckily it turned out to be a urinary tract infection that was caught in enough time. Apparently, this is the same problem that killed Jim Henson, but he was in front of a group of friends (some who happened to be doctors), so he was quickly rushed to the Emergency Room. That was an incredible miracle. About a month earlier he was having some other issues financially and emotionally related to my mom. She has been Bipolar since I was 3 years old. She was going out and wracking up huge debt. It had finally gotten to the point where he could no longer handle the situation financially and emotionally. Eventually my brother, myself, and other family members helped him get her into a program and start on a path that would help him out a little better. Now coming upon about a week ago...I wasn't paying attention to my phone. I...
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Stop the Insanity!

So I was trying to install some software for the fingerprint reader on my laptop, which is running Vista x64, and I got this error. I have say, this is right up there in the list of strangest errors I have ever seen. Needless to say, the software did Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Off Topic:Guten Morgen Germany

That is good morning in German, the weather is ok, and the food is fine (lots of sausages and beer)... I'm staying in Darmstadt, located a little south of Frankfurt . Got here to participate in two webMethods courses at SoftwareAG (yep, I know...it's Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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I'm Not Dead...

Ever since I got back from Florida I have been incredibly busy at work or sick. Since last Monday I have had something I cannot shake, so I went to an RN at a CVS Minute Clinic. It turns out I have a really nasty sinus infection. Ever since Friday I have been sleeping and watching vhs and dvd movies that I can get from either Blockbuster or my own personal collection. Hopefully by the end of the week I will be completely rid of this illness, so until then you won't see much coming out of this blog. I had about 10 blog topics I wanted to write about this week, but forgot them all due to my low attention span. So I hope that you all had a good holidays and are having good year so far. I will catch you all later. Posted on SharePoint Blogs Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Heading down to Florida...

I'm heading down to Fort Lauderdale tomorrow to visit my grandmother and soak up the lovely weather. I won't be back in KC until Christmas Day. I hope that everyone has a happy holidays if they celebrate the upcoming ones. Sorry for the lack of excellent posting lately, hopefully when I get back that will change. And I'm out:) Posted on SharePoint Blogs Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Spammers be gone, the email commeth and login I can

I'm sure many have you may have noticed the large volumes of spam residing within many of the posts on this blog. Well, thanks to Brendon's hard work all weekend, not only do we have a new server, but email is also working, and most importantly Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Going on a SharePoint blogging hiatus for a few more weeks.

I’ve been on overdrive probably for the last 8 months or so and I’d life to start the upcoming new year re-energized so I’m going to go on a SharePoint blogging hiatus. In the meantime you can check out my new personal blog! Mirrored on SharePoint Blogs Posted on SharePoint Blogs...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Happy Hannukah!

For all of those Sharepoint Bloggers out there who celebrate Hannukah like myself I wish you a Chag Sameach! I am in Asp .Net 2.0 training this week, so I won't be blogging at all. Then the Installfest for VS 2008 is tomorrow night, which is going to kill the first night of lighting for me. Here is a wiki on the festival of lights for those of you who are interested and have no idea what this Jewish Holiday means:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannukah. I bet there is also instructions for playing the dreidel game if you are interested. Have a good week all. Posted on SharePoint Blogs Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Visual Studio 2008 Loadfest / Halo Fragfest / Guitar Hero Rockfest!

For those of you in Atlanta or the surrounding area, we (the Atlanta Microsoft Professionals , Atlanta .NET User Group and Microsoft (aka Doug Turnure )) will be hosting a Visual Studio 2008 Loadfest, followed by a Halo Fragfest / Guitar Hero Rockfest Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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