Mike's Blog

It was a hot morning in August 2015. I opted to not wear my jacket or gloves but I did wear my helmet, boots, and jeans. As I was exiting Interstate 20 by the West Loop 250 entrance, the truck in front of me had no tail lights working and had slammed on his brakes to avoid hitting someone who ran the yield sign on the service road. Going from 75 down to a dead stop on a bike isn't too hard, but throw in a slick patch on the road, and a semi who blew past me as I exited onto the off ramp at the same time and my bike immediately started to slide. I aimed for the caliche and the next thing I knew I was on my back looking up. Out of the peripherals to the left I saw my bike bouncing end over end and I barely had enough time to scream "F**K!" as the tail end slammed onto my helmet and the bike stood on it's end on my head. A pair of safety glasses were the only thing that saved my skull from getting brained by whatever piece of metal to which I can only assume was the pas

So I was eating at a local restaurant on Wednesday the 28th and had parked my bike in front of the main doors. I came out to leave after a bit and noticed my rear blinker(Driver side) on my dest with a folded note. I was horrified as I looked down and saw where this chick has hit my bike. Now, in case y'all didn't know I had wrecked this same bike at 60-ish MPH 2 years ago and barely walked away with my life(Ill post pics later). Insurance wants to total my bike it seems as it isn't worth much being an 03 VTX 1300s with 30k miles......But I will keep y'all updated. Oh and the best part? She isn't answering or returning any calls to me or the insurance on the contact info left. Edit** So the Insurance company finally called back and said they tracked her down. She admitted to hitting my bike and just leaving and not returning nay of mine or my insurance agents calls. Her insurance will be repairing my bike or totaling it depending on how much

Don't you guys hate it when you get that pesky https:// cert error in Chrome? Next time just click anywhere in the white and type in badidea Chrome thinks its a badidea to continue so they put in a bit of sarcasm and wit into the system.

Recently, I was tasked with setting up our 35 Azure AD Sync from our local on premise server. I used IDFix and scanned and fixed any errors and then just set up the AD Sync Tool on a standalone server solely dedicated to that job(Small VM 1 gig ram, 1 proc, etc etc). However I ran into an issue with the domain validation. We are currently set up on a .biz locally while I was trying to sync the user domain to a .net in Azure AD. After a few hours of agonizing support calls through Ingram Micro I finally reached out to the #spiceworks and #republicofit IRC channels on Freenode. The fix was almost laughably easy to implement and do. 1: Add a Suffix UPN to your local AD(https://www.petri.com/add-upn-suffixes-in-active-directory). In my case I added domain.com as the Suffic UPN. 3: Ensure your domain has been verified and assigned int he setup portion of the 365 portal(http://office365support.ca/adding-and-verifying-a-domain-for-the-new-office-365/). 2: Change all of the UPN(s) for