Someday I'll start doing better than a "once-a-month" blog post.

However, that day is probably not today.  :-)

A few quick updates, gentle readers.  First, I will unfortunately not be doing the Marine Corps Marathon this year - my body let me down towards the tail end of an 18-mile training run, and I suffered a wicked ankle sprain that left me unable to even walk for a month. The hotel in DC is already booked and paid for, so we'll go for the vacation aspect and I'll at least run the Marine Corps 10K companion race - I still get to run up to the Iwo Jima Memorial in the last 400 yards, so that'll be awe-inspiring to say the least.

Items of technical note - the Active Directory migration is almost done, and I'm deploying a centralized SQL/application server using VS 2005 R2 - I heart Virtual Server, I really do.

What I do not heart, however, are idiotic vendors. I love how they try to tell me that having a hard-coded password is secure because "only the people who work here know it, we never give it out."  I see. And I suppose that no one who knows that password has ever resigned from your company? Quit under less than pleasant circumstances? To be less diplomatic about it...gotten their ass fired? No matter how you try to spin it, you're still talking about security through obscurity...and we all know how well that works.