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I recently ran into an issue where a specific windows service **cough** oracle **cough** was really bogging down my machine. Since this particular service was not one I used on a daily basis, I set the service to start manually, rather than automatic at start up. Problem solved, however I now needed a quick way to get these services going again. Enter a batch file, with the following:

ECHO #### Starting Services... ####
ECHO ============================================================
net start <service name>
net start <service name>
net start <service name>

You can add as many services as you want, and also stop them with the net stop command. Just save that as a .bat file, and away you go.

So first off, I cannot take credit for this tasty morsel of internet amazing. My friend Jake showed me this, and I felt the need to share it with all.

Secondly, if you haven’t check out the StormTroopers365.com yet, take your nerfherder ass over there immediately. Basically, this guy took a picture of storm trooper action figures doing hilarious stuff every day for a year.

Well, once, I stumbled upon this, I told Jake I had to have all of the pictures, in their full resolution glory, on my desktop immediately. In the usual fashion, Jake had already found some Firefox addons to do the trick.

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This is pretty awesome. Google recently made the apps script available to the public, and people have already been doing some sweet things. For one, you can now play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon in Spreadsheets, which I’m sure is something you’ve always yearned to do.

To do it, just go to Insert – Script…

Under there, is a list of current scripts available that users have added to the scripts gallery. There are some pretty cool ones, but KB easily takes the cake, at least at the current time. Install the KB script, and head back to your spreadsheet. Here is an example formula to get you started:

=kb("Miley Cyrus", "Arnold Schwarzenegger")

And here is the result:

I was doing some Sherlock Holmes reading yesterday, and I stumbled on the rumor that Arthur Conan Doyle’s master criminal, Professor Moriarty, was based on a real life man by the name of Adam Worth. I did a bit of research (Wikipedia) and discovered that not only was this dude real, but he was a huge bad ass. Check out the article here for the full read, but basically this guy covered the full gamut of criminality, from pickpocketing to eventually creating a master criminal ring in London, and escaping from Sing Sing on a tugboat! He was eventually nicknamed “the Napoleon of the criminal world.”

Anywho, I felt like drawing last night, so I threw a quick sketch of him together, and colored it in PS. Took about an hour, minus the time up and down the stairs to grab a few beers.