I’m an admin now for three Google Apps for Business accounts, and I’ve had some headaches recently with all three of them. So far, all of my problems seem to have arisen from errors on Google’s end, and as I went ’round and ’round with support for Google, Postini, and Spanning Backup, I got a first-hand reminder of one of the major reasons why so many IT pros are reluctant to jump on the cloud: As the title of this post says, in the cloud there is no sudo. Or if there is a sudo, then you don’t know the password. This is one very good reason why people who are accustomed to being super-users ca...

Image via U.S. Navy (yes, I know this isn't NFL)

Apparently, I am slow with my NFL posts. It would be nice if I could keep my football blog posts current with recent events in games. Alas, I will try harder in the future.

In this post, I would like to look at the Denver Bronco’s field goal kicker Matt Prater. In the game against the Bears, he had a 59 yard field goal to tie the game. I would embed the video of the kick, but the NFL in their infinite wisdom do not allow their videos to be embedded. So, you have two options. One, you can view the video at NFL.com. Two, you can watch my lego...