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January 2004 - Posts

Chicago Area - Want Thawte Email Certificate Points

A group of Thawte notaries in Chicago are holding an event tomorrow to notarize people so that they can put their names on their free Thawte email signing certificates. If you don't have a digital email certificate, but want to be able to sign & encrypt email, head over to www.thawte.com and signup. It's free.

If you're in the Chicago area and want to get notarized, and probably get enough points to become a notary yourself, join the ChicagoThawteNotaries YahooGroup (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ChicagoThawteNotaries/) ASAP and answer the poll.

The event is tomorrow (Friday) at 12:30PM on Michigan Avenue by the river.

Funny KB Articles

Found this on the MVP Newsgroups: http://jill.jazzkeyboard.com/qarticles.html. Somebody has compiled a large list of amusing KB Articles. A few good ones:

Q72540: Calculator Does Not Reliably Subtract Two Numbers in Windows
Q323927: How to Resurrect a Dead Character
Q172653: Sometimes Barney Starts Playing Peekaboo on His Own

I'm still reading, but those three really gave me a laugh. Quite a long list

Plaxo

If you haven't tried it already, check out Plaxo. Basically what Plaxo does is keep your contact information in sync with all the other Plaxo users in your address book (and vice-versa). It's an Outlook plug-in, which peridically downloads updates from the Plaxo server. I just sent out requests to most of my address book. Those people will get a little note which sends them to a form on Plaxo.com, which, after they fill it out, will update my Outlook address book with any info they provide. If they join Plaxo, then my Outlook address book will sync with anything they make available to other Plaxo users, and vice-versa.

Pretty cool, I think.

Removed References to Payton

Well, I just finsihed combing through technical entries, making sure every example I gave was completely general and had no remote reference to my infrastructure at Payton. I will be making an effort not to mention anything about our IT operation at Payton, however, I will still be posting [hopefully] interesting code samples, things I've learnt whilst doing this or that, etc. I will be making an effort not to mention what relatation they may have to Payton.

My BrianDesmond.com/blog content was discovered by someone well above me at Payton, and, occasional mentions of the words Payton and Active Directory together scare some people. So, I've generalised any and all infrastructure and code samples. I managed to somehow get my site blamed for some Klez.H occurances at school (actually, it was assumed that students were misusing the little information I had, which couldn't get them anywhere anyways, to send malicous emails aka auto gen'ed stuff from Klez).

Posted: Jan 13 2004, 08:15 PM by bdesmond | with no comments
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