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• Twisted Podcasting?

  Arik Korman , director for my buddy Bob's radio show has started a Podcasting blog. Arik is a fascinating person, and he infuses his podcast with the same production skills that has helped make the Bob Rivers Show top-rated in the Seattle market. The... Posted Apr 01 2005, 10:05 AM by ChuckOp with | with no comments Filed under: Recreation, Personal

• Ghost Town - Words and Images from Chernobyl

  Today is the 18th anniversary of the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl . A very interesting photo essay and travelogue is available at: http://www.kiddofspeed.com While I'm generally pro-nuclear, reading this account gave me second thoughts. The area cannot... Posted Apr 26 2004, 08:24 AM by ChuckOp with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Personal

• Thoughts from IBM System/360 40th birthday party

  Last night I went to the party at Mountain View's Computer History Museum hosted by IBM. I figured it would be a low key affair with other curious folks like me. Nope the parking lot was full and the lecture hall packed. Had several laughs listening to... Posted Apr 08 2004, 05:17 PM by ChuckOp with | with no comments Filed under: Programming, Personal

• Gil Kirkpatrick of NetPro

  Had a nice lunch today with Gil Kirkpatrick, CTO of NetPro . He's the brains behind a number of products that help enterprises manage Active Directory and other directory services. They've just released ChangeAuditor that tracks changes to Active Directory... Posted Mar 12 2004, 05:57 PM by ChuckOp with | with no comments Filed under: Aviation, Personal, Directory Services

• First eBay auction - Microsoft Wireless IntelliMouse

  I'm selling my first item on eBay this week, a Microsoft Wireless IntelliMouse with a tiltwheel . I bought this item on impluse, and gave it a decent try, but I'm just not meant to move mice with my right hand. This particular mouse is shaped that actual... Posted Mar 03 2004, 09:51 PM by ChuckOp with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Personal

• Commuting to Cisco

  As I've alluded to in other posts, I'm now working at Cisco Systems doing consulting on their Active Directory infrastructure. I'm commuting from Seattle on a weekly basis, which is interesting. I fly down on Monday morning and leave Friday evenings.... Posted Mar 03 2004, 05:03 PM by ChuckOp with | with no comments Filed under: Personal

• Programming Directory Services with Microsoft .NET and XML

  As many of you know, I wrote a popular developers book on Active Directory for Microsoft Press titled Microsoft Windows 2000 Active Directory Programming . When it was published in April 2001, I pleaded with Microsoft Press to not put “Windows 2000”... Posted Feb 03 2004, 12:55 PM by ChuckOp with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Microsoft, Programming, Personal, Directory Services

• NewsGator + .TEXT Posting Plug In

  This post is testing the NewsGator plug-in for the .TEXT blogging software. Combined with the Windows Media Player blogging plug in , I should be able to take advantage of Outlook to post to my blog. We’ll see… [Now Playing: Deep Purple -... Posted Jan 07 2004, 08:28 PM by ChuckOp with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Personal

• Sleepless Night

  The weather in the beautiful Pacific Northwest has been somewhat harsh the past few weeks. It's been snowing and freezing more so than in the nine years I've been here. Yesterday (January 6), we had a lot of snow. If it wasn't for the fact that I had... Posted Jan 07 2004, 01:15 PM by ChuckOp with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Personal

• Are you eXPerienced?

  Blogging has been something I've wanted to do for quite a while now. Thanks to Scott Watermasysk and ASP.NET, I'm finally going to be able to do it, and in great company. A little about me first. I just recently finished an assignment at Microsoft as... Posted Jan 06 2004, 02:31 PM by ChuckOp with | with no comments Filed under: Microsoft, Personal