Kerry-McCain?

The Boston Globe is running an article talking about the possibility of a Kerry-McCain ticket. To John Kerry, I say this. Just do it. I'm a Democrat, but if McCain was running against Kerry, I'd vote for McCain. Adding McCain to the ticket isn't going to dillute your base, it can only bring more voters to your side, and it'd make me a lot more enthusiastic about supporting Kerry this fall. Talking amongst my co-workers, I have this question. Who are all these people who voted for Kerry? I don't know any of them. I'm serious, I know people who were for Edwards, people for Dean, people who were for Gephardt, and even people for Kucinich, but I don't know a single Kerry supporter, and I never really understood why they thought he was the best choice for our party.

Choosing McCain would bring a lot of the Deaniacs more on-board with the Kerry campaign, for, as the article mentions, many of us are McCain fans as well. We like straight-talkers, and don't give a damn if they're "too angry" in the opinion of some pundit.

Birth Announcements

Congratulations to my old college roomie, Kahn Evans, and his wife Holly on the birth of their son, Payton Dean Evans yesterday after a long labor. 7lbs 12 oz, 21.5 inches long. Congratulations also to my old boss John VanDyk and his wife Tina on their new daughter, Bethany!

Where does it go?

So, where does all this daylight that we're saving go? And when can I cash it in for something? My body did not want to get out of bed this morning, I was so deep in REM sleep that my wife claims she hit snooze on the alarm twice before I woke up, then had to scramble to make it to work on time. I'm betting that I fall asleep watching the NCAA championship game tonight, even though it is in HDTV...

Bad Tigger

No! Bad Tigger! Naughty Tigger! Wow, can you say "Public Relations Nightmare"?

Imaging an Optiplex GX270

Tom Turner, one of my co-workers at UNI, has posted a good tip for anyone experiencing problems attempting to image a Dell Optiplex GX270 with DeployCenter/ImageCenter:

If you have a Dell OptiPlex GX270 with integrated Intel Pro 1000 MT (i82540) networking and a SATA hard drive, you will likely have problems imaging the system with PowerQuest's ImageCenter 5.x (5.51 and 5.50 tested). I spent several hours trying every trick I could think of with various boot disks and many versions of both MS NDIS2 and Novell Client32 NIC drivers, but ImageCenter (as part of DeployCenter) - PQIMGCTR.EXE - would always hang at various stages. I never got past the part where you name the image you want to create, though; it would always lock up, before getting to the final screen.