Monthly Archives: January 2006

Jessica Alba best girlfirend material

Posted on January 31, 2006 by Rick Lobrecht

AskMen has posted thier list of the 99 most desirable women for 2006.  Jessica Alba – number 1. Natalie Portman comes in at number 9. Jennifer Garner comes in at number 66.  

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LUA whitepaper on microsoft.com

Posted on January 30, 2006 by Rick Lobrecht

I haven’t managed to read it yet (I know, its only 21 pages, what am I waiting for), but Microsoft has posted a whitepaper on running as a non-user (or least privilege to user accounts.)  Download.  

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New Photos posted

Posted on January 29, 2006 by Rick Lobrecht

Christmas Day December 26, 2005 December 27, 2005 to January 6, 2006 The Houston Zoo December 30, 2005 Kayleigh’s First Birthday Party January 7, 2006 Model train show at GRB January 8, 2006 January 15 – 21, 2006  

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Desktop Search

Posted on January 28, 2006 by Rick Lobrecht

Just a quick update on my desktop search experiment.  The corporate version is just as much of a resource hog as the MSN consumer version.  Uninstalled.  One of the things I noticed is that the indexer takes a significant amount … Continue reading →

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UltraViolet

Posted on January 27, 2006 by Rick Lobrecht

Applet posted a trailer for an upcoming movie called UltraViolet. Starring the ultra-hot Milla Jovovich, it looks like its along the same vein as Dark Angel (the government creates super soldiers, and then decides they want them dead. Guess what, … Continue reading →

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New blog worm in the wild

Posted on January 26, 2006 by Rick Lobrecht

 

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Windows Desktop Seach

Posted on January 26, 2006 by Rick Lobrecht

I’m trying desktop search again, this time the enterprise version of Windows Desktop Search. My hope is that this version will be less intrusive than the MSN version. Visually they appear very similar, so we’ll see. I do like the … Continue reading →

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Disney to buy Pixar

Posted on January 25, 2006 by Rick Lobrecht

In yet another Jobs coup, Disney is buying Pixar for $7.4 billion.  Disney will issue 2.3 shares of Disney for each Pixar share.  I figured this was coming, I should have bought some Pixar shares.  Hopefully this can do something … Continue reading →

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Lifehacker pack

Posted on January 23, 2006 by Rick Lobrecht

In the same vein as the Google pack, but without the auto-update goodness, and Real Player badness, Lifehacker has posted their Lifehacker Pack.  Ok, so its basically just a list of good free or open source software downloads.  The comments … Continue reading →

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No Naked Conversations at Borders

Posted on January 20, 2006 by Rick Lobrecht

The wife and I were at our new local Borders store yesterday.  We mostly stopped in to see how it compared to Barnes & Noble.  We did manage to spend $40, however.  It seemed to have more non-book things (cards, … Continue reading →

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