Leo Laporte posted this http://leoville.com/buzz-kill blog post a few hours ago. I’ve been following Leo since I was first introduced to “The Screensavers” on TechTV. I’ve listened to him rant and rave about the policy of this or that ISP, heard him jump on the bandwagon for every new and shiny thing that someone created [...]
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As the idea of an Android phone has been hanging out in my hindbrain, it has been bumping into other ideas that tend to hang out there. Things like going paperless, ubiquitous capture, OCR, FOSS, NAS, backups… So begins a bit of almost stream of consciousness writing on things that are rubbing elbows in the [...]
Android, prepaid, redfly
I recently started listening to The Commandline Podcast, the latest episode was a panel discussion with ESR on FOSS in daily life. One of the things they talked about was the RedFly which is a keyboard and screen for your smart phone. Another device they talked about was the Nexus One and the Android operating [...]
TSA or Tank Service Announcement
After a rather frustrating morning in World of Warcraft on my teenage Draenei Warrior, with people queuing up as DPS and wanting to tank, and DPS wanting to pull, I decided to make a macro, we’ll see if it helps any if I tap this at the beginning of every run… /p Tank Service Announcement [...]
… why couldn't I leave well enough alone?
So like an idiot I went and did a search for “ventrilo linux client” and found Mangler. I may be doomed afterall. The post is brought to you by lekhonee v0.7
Another itch….
Now another itch is begging to be scratched. It’s another rabbit hole down which much time and energy can be dumped. Can I switch from a Microsoft Windows Vista on my desktop to Ubuntu? I am writing this blog post from my old desktop which is currently running Ubuntu, and I am tempted. Oh my [...]
I feel the itch again…
I am getting that familiar itch again. The one where I start thinking about what tools will make getting organized easier/better, instead of just doing that I am supposed to already be doing. This is such a pretty trap to fall into. Because while you are exploring all the options and weighing the pros and [...]
Contra Vs. Duck Hunt
Saw this on Paladin Schmaladin, I spent hours playing both games. Makes me want to go to my parents place and liberate the NES.
Dick on a stick
Thanks to my friends Tim and Jeanette, I now have my very own homicidal maniac plushy. A Dick on a stick! For those of you who have no idea what I am talking about, head over to [LFGComic](http://lfgcomic.com/page/1) and start reading.
Time Management presentation followup
Here are some followup notes for the LOPSA-Madison Time Management Round Table discussion. *(This was also sent to the mailing list)* Tools that we talked about: [Remind](http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind) – Calendar [todo.sh](http://ginatrapani.github.com/todo.txt-cli/) – Task list The books we had were: ["Getting Things Done" by David Allen](http://www.davidco.com/) ["Time Management for System Administrators" by Tom Limoncelli](http://everythingsysadmin.com/) Websites: One of [...]
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