Em7 ad naseum

__DC__
Batman #681
Batman: Gotham After Midnight #7
Blue Beetle #33
Justice Society of America: The Kingdom #1
Legion of Super-Heroes #48
Reign in Hell #5
Superman #682
Teen Titans #65
Trinity #26

__MARVEL__
Captain America #44
Daredevil #113
Guardians of the Galaxy #7
Incredible Hercules #123
Nova #19
Secret Invasion: Inhumans #4
Thor: Man of War #1
Ultimate Spider-Man #128
X-Force #9

This week's haul:

__DC__
Batgirl #5
Batman and the Outsiders #13
Brave and the Bold #19
The Flash #246
Kingdom Come Special: Magog #1
Supergirl #35
Terra #2
Trinity #25

__MARVEL__
Amazing Spider-Man #578
Avengers / Invaders #6
Deadpool #4
Uncanny X-Men #504
X-Men Legacy #218

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Invincible #55

For as much as I've loved learning Perl, there is a slight issue with it not being available out-of-the-box for Windows Server systems. Our production environment at work is ALL Windows so that makes for a slight issue trying to support these handy little scripts I've been using on my local workstation. Fortunately, Microsoft has seen fit to catch up to the early 80's and had introduced an awesome new scripting shell called Powershell. It's installed by default in Server 2008 and both Exchange 2007 and VMware Virtual Center have providers for it.

I took a crack at writing a better 90-day deletion script for our email system (since that's the policy) and it was pretty simple to crank out:

A slightly smaller week for comics, but still quite a few issues got picked up in the end:

__DC__
Final Crisis: Resist
Justice Society of America #20
Secret Six #3
Terra #1
Terror Titans #2
Trinity #23

__MARVEL__
Amazing Spider-Man #576
Avengers: The Initiative (Special) #1
House of M: Civil War #3
Marvel Zombies 3 #2
Ultimatum #1
X-Men and Spider-Man #1

As a guitar player, I can remember the first time I heard Steve Vai play. It was awe-inspiring to the point that it was almost discouraging to me as a mere mortal. To see something so far outside of my current ability is neat, but it's also a reminder that in the grand scheme of music I'm pretty average (at best) at something.

I was reading up on RFC822 today and found a handy regular expression that will validate an email address based on that standard: