Monthly Archives: September 2016

Quotes that make you hmmm….

I love any sentence that you have to really think about… From QBQ by John G. Miller “Leaders are not problem solvers, but problem givers.” If your first thought on that is negative, think some more.

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Management Tips from Herodotus P4

“I would never much rather take a risk and run into trouble half the time than keep out of trouble through being afraid of everything.” As I move to Cigna and start a new position.

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Powershell and Certs Work Complete

There is some bugyness in this. The visio piece is not as nice as I would like. But here is the completed product.   <# SYNOPSIS Reviews all certs in Machine Cert Stores Options: OUtput to Excel or CSV Options

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Quick Thoughts: “I believe but” statements

I see this constantly on social media, a comment that uses the titular formula. If you feel compelled to say; “I believe but” statements I would suggest you examine the ‘but’ line. Normally the ‘but’ line is an obvious statement. 

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Management Tips from Herodotus P3

“…where covenants are concerned, not to hesitate, even in thought to make proper restitution” or as someone slightly more modern said. “To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is

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PowerShell and Certs II: the ‘Logic’

Since I have neither quite perfected nor scrubbed the code I thought I would put out a little on the logic. The logic: looking only in the machine personal cert store we look for the cert subject. If the subject

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Management Tips from Herodotus P2

“It usually happens that well laid plans have prosperous issue” This is one that I need to consider frequently. I love diving right into new technology. It’s fun. I’m excited. But when it’s for work and not play I have

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PowerShell and Certificates

I recently had a bit of fun with Certs and Powershell. Just some notes.  One certs and powershell are way more fun than they should be or at least than I think they should be. I want to make sure

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Management Tips from Herodotus P1

I’ve been reading The Histories by Herodotus and while there are many fascinating passages one of the things I was not necessarily expecting to find is “Management Tips from Herodotus.” I think any good idea requires mulling over so I

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