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Ah! What a week… for us Crackberry Addicts. WES 2008 is going on and announcements a plenty!

RIM officially announced the Blackberry 9000 at Monday 12:01AM EDT. Today, new info on the upcoming Blackberry Thunder, a Verizon and Vodafone exclusive… yes… VZW finally gets an exclusive….wait, nay, lifetime exclusivity agreement for the Thunder. The Blackberry Thunder is RIM’s first Touchscreen device! While some say, “ew! WTF”, I say “cool, yes!” Why? Because this means that the BB OS is significantly improving to support the touchscreen, this can only benefit those who are Blackberry QWERTY purists.

So I took my jeep out to El Dorado Canyon this past weekend with Robert.  Here is one of the pics of my jeep that I thought was too cool.  See if you have the canjones like my friend?

If you don’t see what I’m referring to, look at the drivers side front tire…

Today my new parts arrived for my new gaming rig. My old AMD64 X2 4400+ 1MB cache, is hitting the ceiling of it’s processing capacity, so I decided to upgrade.

I picked up the following:

• Proc: Intel E8400 - Dual Core Wolfdale 3.0Ghz, 6MB cache
• Memory: OCZ 4GB(2×2GB) Titanium CAS 4
• Mobo: Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L
• Hard Drive: Seagate 7200.11 500GB
• Video Card(Existing): EVGA Nvidia 8800GTS(G92) 512MB
• Sound Card(Existing): Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Gamer
• Case: A new one.

Newegg was having trouble keeping the E8400 in stock for more than 35 minutes at a time, so I ended up picking it up from clubit.com. Once I get this thing up, I’ll report back. I plan to dual boot Vista and XP. I currently run Vista and need to use my XP laptop for somethings so I will dual boot to solve this problem!

Today Research In Motion published their Blackberry Support Community Forums – it’s about time, not sure why it took so long! I’m all signed up and posted a few times. Should be interesting and I look forward to contributing to this new community.

http://supportforums.blackberry.com/rim/

… that COD4 is the best game EvA!
Few Updates: Exchange 2007 SP1 was released last week and Office 2007 SP1 was released today. Head over to microsoft.com and pick them up for your functional patching enjoyment.

I leave this upcoming Sunday for a week of Exchange 2007 Design and High Availability training, once that’s done I will wrap up my studying and start talking my MCITP tests. yay certifications.

I recommend the following resources: MCTS: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 - Configuration & Windows PowerShell Cookbook while the Powershell book definitely isn’t going to be the best resource out there, it’s a decent read at this point early on. I know of a few Powershell books that are going to be release in the first three months of 2008 that are supposed to be great.

I have a few scripts in such that I will be uploading. I’ve been using them to simplify a few tasks for a recent implementation.

Look for a few changes here at LDC in the coming weeks.

Didn’t I say in my last post that I would be gone for 3 weeks? Dang, perhaps I was wrong. Anyways LDC is in need of some freshing and a new direction, so I’m working on that. I’ve installed Windows Vista and getting all my data copied back from my local servers, once I’m done I shall begin! I’ve been traveling a lot of this month, I spent a few days in Colorado Springs, CO for an HP Customer Focus Tea:Exchange 2007 forum and last week I was at Microsoft Classroom training for Exchange 2007(class 5047/5049/5050) at QuickStart in Irvine, CA. I’m going to be heading to the bay in a few weeks to finish up my Exchange 2007 training with the Design and High Availability classes after which I plan to get my MCITP:Enterprise Messaging Administrator certification. We’ll see, I’m not a great test taker.

If you game, PC or console, do yourself a favor and pick up Call of Duty 4:Modern Warfare. It’s the best game of the year… well at least until I go and pick up Crysis, which I pre-ordered but since ‘ve been traveling the pre-order is irrelevant because it came out last week.

I’ve been a bit busy lately and added a few domains to my hosting account, as a result, LDC was broke like a bad joke.  It’s fixed and back online, I know many were sad at it’s offlineness.

Anyways, I’m off getting married and on a 3 week hiatus.  Here’s proof, my desk at work…. I’ve never taken more than 4 days off work, hopefully I will still have a job when I return.

Wings win to move into the western conference finals of the Stanley cup playoffs!!!!

GO WINGS!!!!!!!

I’m leaving the shark tank, pics to follow tomorrow.

I almost caught a puck, it hit my coworker in the shouldler and it ended up in the row behind us.

We ended up getting different tickets, 4 rows behind the Redwings penalty box.

Pics tomorrow, kinds hard to upload from my blackberry.

I just landed in San Jose and I’m waiting for my ride to pick me uo. We’re 2 hours from game time of game 6 of the Redwings and Sharks second rpind series. Redwings have an opportunity to clinch the series tonight. We shall see!

I’ve been fortunate enough to be given a ticket from HP to their skybox for tonight’s game.

GO WINGS!!!!!!!

The Redwings made it out of the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs tonight by beating the Calgary Flames in Game 6 in double Over time.

Image from nhl.com