State Farm 10 Mile / Lincoln NE March 27, 2010

The outdoor running / racing season has begun (at least for me!) here in Nebraska!  Today we traveled down to Lincoln to run the 12th Annual State Farm 1M/5K/10M.  I have to admit, the weather wasn’t all that great.  It rained for most of the morning before the race and the conditions on the trail were very sloppy and wet.  My shoes were destroyed! They announced that they had 1900 runners this year.  I think only 1500 showed due to the rain.  It was still a very well run race. Nice Job guys! 10 miles is kind of an odd

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The New Gallup iPhone (or iPod touch) Application – Get Your News Fix Now!

A new iPhone application for all you news and poll junkies is now available.  Gallup (who I work for, full disclosure) has released version 1.0 of it’s soon to be very popular iPhone application that is free to download on iTunes.  The application gives you access to all the latest daily numbers from US polling (like the President’s approval rating), the top news stories from gallup.com as well as the latest Gallup videos via YouTube. Nothing is more than 2 taps away.  But remember, please don’t try reading it while driving.  I know, it’s tempting. A couple of features that

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The Home Server Show 81

In today’s episode we go over everything that has happened this week including anti-virus for WHS, Mozy, Drive Balancer and more. http://homeservershow.com/the-home-server-show-81.html New Eye-Fi Manager released WHSClamAV DoubleTwist Install Subsonic on WHS Entertainment 2.0  – AJ discusses Windows Media Center Mozy to work on WHS How to setup the itunes server in a media smart server Drive Balancer Discussion Un-Install HP software from MediaSmart Server Troubleshoot Twonky A Virtual Home Server Donations Link Follow the Podcast on Twitter!

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The Home Server Show 80

In today’s episode we go over all the latest news and releases for Windows Home Server.  HP and Tivo are in the news and is Avast for WHS recognizing their new 5.0 client?  Add-In updates and more. Listen to the Podcast Icy Dock MB662 Avast for WHS recognizing the new 5.0 clients? HP and Tivo WHS Health WHS Quicken, Quickbooks, Add-In Central Chris’s favorite financial program, Mint.com Microsoft Discussions on defragmenting WHS MS Forums thread on defragmenting Doubletwist Follow the Podcast on Twitter!

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ICY DOCK MB662US-2S dual bay 3.5 SATA to eSATA/USB 2.0

Disclosure: ICYDOCK provided this unit for testing purposes at no cost. The MB662US-2S is a dual bay hard drive RAID enclosure that can use two 3.5” SATA hard drives (in my case, 80 GB drives) with 6 different RAID configurations and both USB and e-SATA connectors.  A good looking case design, a fan speed controller and hard drive installation that requires no tools or kits rounds out the highlights of features. What’s in the box? Product Features: * MB662 Series fits 2x 3.5” SATA I/II hard drives for maximum storage and supports up to 4TB. * Plug & Play USB

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