Exchange 2010 Course Reactions - Day 1 of 5

Submitted by Philip Storry on Mon, 21/11/2011 - 23:02

I last used Exchange Server in a production environment on the 2003 SMB server, but really most of my experience is with Exchange 4.0, 5.5. and 2000 in Enterprises.

Why so old? Because back then, it was pretty awful compared to Notes. So I picked Notes, which gave me over a decade of work. Not a bad choice, I think...

Anyway, here's the first reactions to the course.

Installation
So many prerequisites!

Bus Station - 20 years of Big Issue

Submitted by Philip Storry on Sun, 02/10/2011 - 16:30

It's been 20 years of the Big Issue.

So when I was trying to pick a short story to publish this week, it had to be Bus Station.

It's a story that comes from a writing prompt:
Taken from a Writer's Cafe writing prompt... Character: Mack Till Setting: Bus station

I chose not to use the name in the story, and up until writing this "Behind The Keyboard" I had forgotten that the character had a name. Which is somewhat relevant...

Bus Station

Submitted by Philip Storry on Sun, 02/10/2011 - 15:59

I sit at the bus station, hovering at the border of unconsciousness. I'm so hungry, so tired. I can't afford to pass out though - I'll miss my chance.

Hopefully these cramps will pass.

I grip the ticket a little tighter, trying to pull myself together by focusing on it, until there's nothing else in the world but my ticket at the end of a dark tunnel.

My ticket out of here.

Pain from the cramps again.

I look up at the clock. Two hours until the bus leaves.

Bristol. That's where I'm going.

Open For Business As Usual...

Submitted by Philip Storry on Sun, 11/09/2011 - 19:41

Open For Business As Usual...
(Click on the photo to see it on Flickr if you can't make out the text. Then book an optician's appointment.)

This is what I love about London. You can't make this kind of stuff up.

Photographs

Submitted by Philip Storry on Wed, 07/09/2011 - 23:02

I like taking photographs.

The ones I publish here are usually linked from Flickr, but get extra discussion and/or background.

Business Park Landscape

Submitted by Philip Storry on Wed, 07/09/2011 - 22:49

It's been a year since I put up any photos online. So I wanted to put up one taken at around the time I stopped.

I took this one at Bridgend, in Wales. I'd just checked into the hotel for a wedding, and had an hour or so to kill - so I stepped out with my camera.

Happy 20th Birthday Linux

Submitted by Philip Storry on Thu, 25/08/2011 - 20:54

Linux is 20 today, give or take.

Actually, it's the 20th anniversary of the announcement of Linux. It was, by then, about three to four months old - but existed only on Linus Torvald's hard disk.

What if that hard disk had died?

Personally, if Linux didn't exist, I'd still be struggling with the mess that is Windows. Or I'd have switched to the Mac already.

Thoughts

Submitted by Philip Storry on Sun, 21/08/2011 - 22:36

Is this site a blog? Am I a blogger? Some say yes, some say no.

Before social networking, blogs were places for all thoughts; now they’re just where we place longer trains of thought. The line between short and long is fuzzy, functioning on an “I know it when I see it” basis.

Here are my thoughts.

Short Stories

Submitted by Philip Storry on Sun, 21/08/2011 - 22:18

I have a small collection of short stories, often formed from writing prompts, sometimes just written on themes that pop into my head.

They're kind of like practice writing.

When I think they're worth publishing, they end up here...

Blue

Submitted by Philip Storry on Fri, 19/08/2011 - 16:05

I am the first to set foot on it in all humanity.
Well, I say set foot on it.
In it would be more accurate.

If the earth is a blue marble, then EM4 is just a blue ball. A giant, blue ball.
Gravity is slightly higher than earth, and the surface is about half a foot deep. And the surface practically gaurantees death. But I feel we have to do this as a race - we have to walk on this planet, after all we've done.

We? Who am I kidding. I.