July 2009 Entries
I'm a consultant. I travel from client network to client network, sometimes within the same day. My job involves interacting with various corporate servers using my trusty laptop, solve real-life business problems, and then move on to the next gig. It's not practical for me to have my computer join a Windows Domain only to have to do it again and again with each new environment that I visit. This is also not feasible because I cannot have my different clients become administrators on my company-provided laptop or have domain policies pushed down to my laptop, which is a byproduct of joining a domain.
So, as...
This morning, I came across this news article about some patents that Bill Gates filed to stop hurricanes.
Sure, I never patented the idea or did any work to further elaborate on it, but I did blog about the same concept in 2005!
http://jasonf-blog.blogspot.com/2005/09/preventing-hurricanes.html
Bill, you can buy me a Diet Pepsi the next time that you see me...
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