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You Had Me at EHLO links to a SWF-based walkthrough of the new Outlook Web Access (OWA) for Exchange 2007.

My To-Do List:

1. Broker Peace in the Middle East
2. Reduce this country’s dependence on foreign energy
3. Find the love of my life
   
4. Install Exchange 2007 Outlook Web Access
5. Find out what “linear algebra” is all about

Stream of Consciousness

While…driving along…during my last constitutional of the evening, I tried to remember that one word I heard or read earlier in the day that I hadn’t heard before and I wanted to know its definition.

I was reading a VMWare whitepaper on 802.1Q VLANs (GEEK ALERT!), and right smack dab in the middle of FAQ section was this phrase: “VLANs and IP Subnets are orthogonal.”

I was reading it on the bus ride home, so I quickly sent a text message from my celly to 46645 with “define orthogonal”.

Within moments I get the definition: “at right angles as in linear algebra”.

I thought about the last time I had use GOOGL to define a word I didn’t know, and it reminded me of Scott saying he wanted his “thirst slaked”.

I was convinced, then, that slaked wasn’t a word, so I whipped out the celly and FourSixSixFourFived “define slaked”.

It came back with: “calcium hydroxide”.

I was pretty good at Inorganic chemistry so I knew that a Calcium ion has a double-positive charge, so the chemical formula must be Ca(OH)2.

But isn’t a positively charged ion called a cation?

That made me giggle.

Cation is pronounced “cat-eye-awn”, not “kay-shun”.

Sometimes it’s fun to just let the mind meander.