Windows 7 Icons not showing up or broken issue

July 24th, 2010 - In the News, SysAdmin

I got a strange bug the other day, where my Windows 7 icons would disappear, simply reverting to blank icons, even tho right clicking on the icon > properties, resulted in an image of the programs icon. So I did a quick search and found a valid solution… to delete your icon cache.  I was [...]

Why I think LOST Finale sucked…

May 24th, 2010 - In the News, Thoughts & Rants

/rant on So I’ve been a loyal LOST viewer for the past 6 seasons.  I almost gave up on it last season, as it was getting boring, and nothing was being answered and more ‘questions’ were being put up.  But I held in there, I held on tight, and I thought to myself.  It will [...]

Drag images into your email messages using Gmail

May 13th, 2010 - In the News, Javascript, Thoughts & Rants

I read this morning that Google added the ‘drag-n-drop’ feature to image attachments to mail.  Which is pretty exciting because if you think about it, you are really dragging an image INTO a browser.  I’m really curious what type of Javascript handling you need behind the scenes in order to ‘capture’ the image / attachment [...]

Blagojevich finally kicked off Celebrity Apprentice

April 5th, 2010 - In the News, Reviews, Thoughts & Rants

I really liked last nights episode of the Celebrity Apprentice, and I’m happy to say good riddance to Rod Blagojevich.  He is an insult to being a Governor, the state of Illinois should be shocked to have had that fraud as someone in power.  I really believe that the way someone behaves under a task [...]

Young job seekers hiding their online status from employers

April 1st, 2010 - In the News, Thoughts & Rants

Interesting to see that most new young job seekers are hiding their online status, wether it is on facebook, myspace, or even on linkedin (their non professional network). I found this article to be right on the money, people are used to ‘Googeling’ someone prior to an interview, and trying to get as much detail [...]