Happy Birthday, Robert Frost

OK, I’m a day late, but its been a busy month.  Robert Frost is one of my favorite poets, and “The Road Not Taken” is one of my favorite poems.

The Road Not Taken

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,    
And sorry I could not travel both    
And be one traveler, long I stood    
And looked down one as far as I could    
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,    
And having perhaps the better claim    
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;    
Though as for that, the passing there    
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay    
In leaves no step had trodden black.    
Oh, I marked the first for another day!    
Yet knowing how way leads on to way    
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh    
Somewhere ages and ages hence:    
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,    
I took the one less traveled by,    
And that has made all the difference.   

 

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Free Microsoft Training and MS-Press eBooks

Below are links for free eBooks on Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2.  They are pretty good overview books, and worth a read to give you a better understanding of both operating systems.

Microsoft is also offering several free online training modules for Exchange 2010, OCS 2007 R2, SQL Server, Virtualization (VMM 2008 R2 and Hyper-V), and Windows 7.

Free Training

Deploying Windows® 7 Essential Guidance from the Windows 7 Resource Kit and TechNet Magazine

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=EE2A1D38-88A9-43B3-95BC-7E962F0B6030&displaylang=en

Download the New eBook: Deploying Windows® 7 Essential Guidance from the Windows 7 Resource Kit and Microsoft® TechNet Magazine. Looking for guidance specific to Windows 7 deployment? Check out what the industry's leading experts have to say in this free Microsoft Press eBook with selected chapters from the Windows 7 Resource Kit on Deployment Platforms, Planning, Testing Application Compatibility.

Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2 eBook

http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/C/0/5C0BD0AB-040D-4C56-A60B-661001012DDA/Windows_Server_2008_R2_e-book.pdf

Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2 is a deep-dive e-book, that will get you up to speed on how R2's new features and capabilities work, including Hyper-V and RDS virtualization, management, IIS and the new Web application platform and, of course, all the synergistic goodness between Windows Server and Windows 7. Free for a click, so don't miss out.

 

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Palin's Resignation: The Edited Version

This is an interesting article, if only from an educational standpoint.  I sent this link to my daughters as an example of how to properly edit a rough draft for publication.  The editors of Vanity Fair did a pretty good job, and offer insight into the editing process as well as demonstrating proper editing symbols/shorthand.

From a political standpoint, it’s sad that Sarah Palin, with her Journalism degree, can’t seem to write beyond the level of a New Jersey eighth grade level.

Palin's Resignation: The Edited Version | vanityfair.com

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