Musings of a technophile

I finally beat Zelda last night. Even though the game came out three years ago, I didn't get a Wii until recently, so this was my first chance to hack away at the game, and what a beautiful game it is. I'm a big fan of the Super Nintendo Zelda and the Nintendo 64 Zelda, so obviously I was expecting this game to be just as good -… Continue reading

So this weekend was pretty nice. We kicked it off with some swimming at the pool on Friday night. It was the third time we had attempted to go swimming this year so far, and this time the water was acceptable, although still cold. Luckily Ethan this time seemed to finally remember his "swimming days" from last year, and was able to jump off the wall and… Continue reading

So I've been thinking about this for a while, but since I'm so into Anime and the Japanese culture, I've talked with my wife for many nights about it and we decided that we are going to move to Japan on April 20th (right after my birthday). I've already given my two week notice, and I can't wait to get packed and fly over. I haven't told my parents yet… Continue reading

The FBI had an opening for an assassin. After all the background checks, interviews and testing were done, there were 3 finalists; Two men and a woman. For the final test, the FBI agents took one of the men to a large metal door and handed him a gun. 'We must know that you will follow your instructions no matter what the circumstances. Inside the room you will find your wife sitting in… Continue reading

For quite some time I have been wanting the ability to connect to my home computer through RDP from work as occasionally there is some information I can use from my home computer. The problem is that I use dd-wrt on my home router, which doesn't allow for one-to-one (1:1) nat's at this time. I basically wanted the following rules

1. Open only the RDP port open and forward

So Ethan had a question for Mariel this morning, apparently about growing up and what was going to happen to him in life in regards to a family and living with us. The conversation went something like this: Ethan: Why is Maddie a girl like you? Mariel: Cause she just is buddy. Ethan: Is she a mommy like you? Mariel: No, not yet, but she probably will be someday. Ethan: Do… Continue reading

In a previous post, I talked about removing Symantec Endpoint Protection from your corporate network via a vbscript that ran through Group Policy. I had a problem though where I had uninstalled the program from all my computers, but I had it running on one server also. As I went to uninstall it from the server, it asked me for the uninstall password. At this point, I… Continue reading

My company is getting rid of Symantec Anti-virus. The final kick in the shins was the new software they brought out called "Symantec Endpoint Protection". I'm not exactly sure what Symantec was thinking when they brought out this product, but the old Symantec Corporate Server was much easier to administer. The new product just seems to go out of your way to make itself difficult - from… Continue reading

A short history by ElementZero: Once upon a time, long long ago, there was a man. This man had to work, and needed to do so for many hours each do in order to complete his tasks. Luckily, that man could work from the confines of his own home in order to work comfortably. Eventually, the man got older, and had children. The children grew from newborns, to infants… Continue reading

A little boy wanted $100.00 very badly and prayed for weeks, but nothing happened. Then he decided to write God a letter requesting the $100.00. When the postal authorities received the letter to God, USA, they decided to send it to the President. The president was so amused that he instructed his secretary to send the little boy a $5.00 bill. The president thought this would appear to be a lot of money… Continue reading