How to Extract the contents of an MSI Installer File

Have you ever wanted to just get at the contents of an MSI file, without having to install the whole application or library? It's easy, just use the following command at the console:

msiexec /a yourmsifile.msi /qb TARGETDIR=C:\extracted

Note the TARGETDIR must be an absolute path.

Getting Fat

A photo that marketing tells me will cause people not to read this post. (not me)

I was contemplating being fat a few nights back. A couple of years ago I put on weight, a lot of it. I'm sorta over it now, had my fun and want to return to my previous figure.

Anyway, I was contemplating being fat and I thought, if I'm fat because I'm eating too much or eating unnecessarily then I obviously have more food than I need. And if I have more of anything than I need I obviously have more capacity to share and give.

If we are fat, literally or figuratively, it might mean we need to share more. It's not to say if you have a weight problem you definitely need to share more, but maybe, maybe you do?

Enjoy what you have...

"Enjoy what you have rather than desiring what you don’t have. Dreaming about nice things is like chasing the wind."
    -- Paraphrased from Ecclesiastes 6:9 (New Living Translation)

Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright 1996, 2004. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.

Battlestar Galactica uses PC (John Hodgman)

While watching episode 15 of season 4 of Battlestar Galactica sometime back, I had noticed a character who looked like the PC out of the Apple Mac ads. But the people I was watching it with denied my claim, and I never chased it up and resigned myself that I was wrong and the majority was right. Today I came across it by accident, but it turns out my eyes weren't lying!

See a photo of "PC" on Battlestar Galactica over at IMDB: pin.nu/bsgpcphoto
See his wikipedia page as well for further proof.

I haven't embedded the image because I'm not sure of the legal implications with this particular photo. Nor do I want a PC on my blog.