When You Start Pulling The String
I recently posted on migrating my site from Wordpress to Jekyll. Things are still going full steam ahead. I still need to do some polishing, but that’s the least of...
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Breaking With Wordpress Is Hard To Do
I did it. I broke free. I am free of Wordpress. It’s been a long divorce, but I think the end has finally occurred.
How Did We End Up Here?
A few months ago my website ran into an issue. WordPress crashed, and while I could take time to fix it — I opted not to. At first, it was "I’ll get...
Yahoo Answers Shutting Down — Not All Data Exportable
This week it was announced that Yahoo Answers was shutting down. In that fact, I kind of go maybe it’s time, Reddit has replaced it. The current ownership of Yahoo...
Playing With Wordgrinder
I have an overall goal of trying to move one laptop over to a terminal-based only laptop one day. However, I can’t do that until I can survive more than...
Sometimes The Right Text Editor is Right In Front of You
I had an issue with my daily journal script. If I collected all the data from sources, generated my daily post, and then made notes — I was leaving out too many...
Doing The RSS Feed Cleanup Dance
As I’m going through the daily journal generation script I previously mentioned, I made it to the point that I have most of what I can grab on a daily...
Scripting…Scripting..Scripting The Night Away…
For those that have known me for a while, one of my obsessions interests is archiving and keeping all the data I generate online. I do this to the best...
Running Windows Programs Via Alexa
Like half of America, I made a purchase yesterday that threw me into the Amazon ecosystem. Tomorrow I’ll be the proud owner of a couple of Amazon Echo devices. One...
Playstation 4 — Remote Play And You
Like Legion, this is another one where I just might be late to the party. I don’t think so though. I think is something that people are not really aware...
How To Use Two Sets of Bluetooth Headphones at the Same Time with OSX/MacOs
Two nights ago my wife and were in the hotel sharing a room with my son. The last time this happened my son stayed up most of the night since...
Certified Ethical Hacking Training — Day 1
Today I started taking the training courses for the Certified Ethical Hacker training. Until today, I’ve been working on reading through the manuals and other books. I wanted to write...
How I Stopped Worrying About XBMC and Began To Love Plex
For a long time, I juggled around with many media players on my home network. I’ll be honest if I’m playing something quick and locally VLC has been my go-to...
And Some People End Their Troubleshooting When a Web Page Doesn’t Load
Yesterday at around 7 PM my internet connection stopped working. The PS4 stopped loading Netflix and I heard that a web page failed to load from the other room. I...
I’m Looking For A Product That Can Take One Airplay Stream and Send It Out To Multiple Airplay Receivers
Now that I have the lights voice-activated, the next thing I go back to is whole house audio. Currently, I have 5 zones to that I can send audio. I...
Just Added Voice Activation For Household Lights or How I Finally Took My Other Raspberry Pi Out of The Box
What does a boy do when he has an extra Raspberry Pi computer sitting around that hasn’t been taken out of the box in two years? He finds something to...
Setting up a Faux Landline So My Son Can Get Calls
We have reached that dreaded age that every parent must face. The one where your child wants to be able to make their own phone calls and receive calls from...
The Real Security Issue With The Cloud and the IoT — Loss of Access
The most important thing for anyone in IT is control over your assets and investments. The loss of control can cause you to be vulnerable and helpless even if what...
The Loss of Last.fm to IFTTT and How Pinboard Exposed the Real Reasons
On March 9th I received the following email from IFTTT:
Making a First Generation Airport Express Work
Recently I was re-architecting my home network. One of the main things I wanted to work with was whole-house audio. In two rooms of the house currently, we have Apple...
Get 1 Terabyte of Google Storage Space By Becoming a Local Guide
I know reading the headline, some of you are wondering what the heck is a Google Local Guide. This is actually a service that has existed for a while in...
Stop Losing Contacts — Consolidate on Google Contacts
When I wrote up the piece on backing up your photos I mentioned how this is a regular complaint on Facebook. The other thing that I don’t understand in this...
Lifestreaming 2015
Technology is a wonderful thing. It enables the public to do so much, but at the same time, it allows so much to be taken for granted. About seven-eight years...
Backing Up All of Your Pictures in 2015 — How I Do It
Not a month goes by where someone I know hasn’t broken a phone or lost pictures on their computer. I would say about 80% of the time a solution is...
When Apple Customer Service Got It Wrong — And AT&T Got It Right — WTF
A new iPhone is released. A boy has an upgrade on his contract. It is a match made in heaven — until it isn’t.
The Chinese Are Building an Unhackable Quantum Network — And That’s Awesome!
Earlier today I received an email from a public relations person that I work with. The only text was "Scary" and this was the Hyperlink —
How to Unprotect a Third-Party Encrypted PDF on OSX
This is just a quick tech note for those that might be fighting an encrypted PDF on OSX. I had a PDF that was encrypted by a third-party certificate that...
Converting Symantec Endpoint Encryption — Device Control Logs to CSV files.
Recently I had to do some work on Symantec Endpoint Encryption — Device Control. One of the major issues was to take the logs and convert them to a more usable format....
People Don’t Like Choice for Social Networks
About six or seven years ago I saw the writing on the wall. Facebook was going to become the dominant social network. This had its benefits such as a singular...
Everyone Likes To Point Out Apple’s Security Issues — But What About The Other Guy?
All last week (I’ll also assume this upcoming week), people have been chiming and laughing over security vulnerabilities in IOS7. The main reason this is in the news is the...
Amazon and Google: The Race to the Bottom of The Android Market
Amazon announced its new Kindle lines today. The first thing that is going to hit everyone is the price drops. If we focus on the Android-based tablet line, Amazon released...
How to Use IFTTT With Google Drive Without Sharing All Your Docs With IFTTT
Yesterday IFTTT announced that they were adding support for Google Drive. I was initially excited. I could stop using Dropbox as a catch-all for all my IFTTT updates. There is...
The Death of Commenting
Remember about four or five years ago when commenting was all the rage? Blogs would have to adapt and develop new commenting systems. Companies such as Disqus and Intense Debate...
Facebook Timeline Is Not Completely Rolled Out Yet?
Today I saw more complaints about Facebook moving people to timelines. The strange thing I originally thought that the roll-out was supposed to be complete in the Spring of this...
Configuring a Playstation 3 Controller To Work With a 2011 Macbook Pro (or later?)
I know most people don’t care about this post, but I don’t want to ever hunt for the information again. Hopefully, this helps someone out.
Backing Up Dropbox to Google Drive or Skydrive
I use Dropbox to share files with friends and for use with third-party mobile or web applications. Very few applications have an API that directly interfaces with Google Docs..er Google...
And Here is Where Microsoft Ruins Skype and Google And Apple Win VOIP
Today Microsoft updated Skype to now included "Conversation Ads". Looking at the review on Ars Technica, this is all sorts of terrible. I think Microsoft shot itself in the foot...
I Have Successfully Merged Last.fm Accounts — Here is a HOWTO
I managed to do more work importing Last.fm data. Earlier I posted how nothing was working. I mentioned how there is no method to do this. I also mentioned how...
Last.fm Data Woes — Merging Three Accounts
Let me give you some background before I get into this issue. A few years ago I signed up for last.fm, it is a service that records what music you...
Music Metadata Meltdown
A little over a year ago I was almost done with getting my mp3 metadata into shape. I had a few stragglers but the majority was complete and I would...
Roku and Me, Initial Reactions
Earlier this week we ordered aRoku device from Amazon. We purchased the complete bells and whistles XS model. The main reason for this was I wanted a wired connection for...
Is there a Facebook timeline alternative?
So last week I started filling out my Facebook timeline. The idea behind it is pretty cool in the sense you give yourself a time machine to look back at...
Internet Cleanup — Winterize Your Old Accounts
Yesterday I posted about not deleting old accounts where there is a chance you will ever use them again or have made friends where your identity could be mistaken if...
Don’t Just Delete Old Online Accounts
This is just a friendly reminder to everyone in the online nether regions. You hear all the time about people quitting Facebook, MySpace, blogger, etc. There is a problem with...
Goodbye Mr. Jobs — My Apple Stories
Wow. This was news I was not expecting to hear last night. My son had just finished eating dinner and I sat down on the couch for a quick RSS...
I Don’t Understand the iPhone 4s Hate — I Still Want One
Yesterday, like half the rest of the tech world, I waited with bated breath for details on the next iPhone. It had everything I expected. It was running Ios5. It...
XBMC for Apple TV2
Yes, I know that this software is available for a while. I actually had it months ago until Netflix stopped working on my Apple TV2(for the rest of the post...
Why Aren’t Comics For Kids Anymore?
I just finished reading a great piece about how comicbook makers are not targeting kids under 12 anymore (read the piece here). I was thinking about this, my greatest diversity...
Interface Design — Designing a Blog For Those That Don’t Blog
I mentioned the other day about creating a mash-up blog for friends. I have worked at trying to work around how everyone else uses the Internet and normalizes it. The...
Apple Location Issue — Scaring the Uninformed
So the Apple issue hit the web news yesterday. All the "OMG HAXXX" and Fox News proclaiming your spouse or employee can monitor your every move stories hit the web...
Lifestreaming After Three Years — New Goal Personal Databasing
I have been saving my online data pretty much for three years. Most of it is backed up in email via some fashion or another. Some of it is stored...
A New Idea on Getting Out of Jury Duty
While driving into work today I was listening to This Week in Law. There was a discussion on mistrials that are occurring because jury members have been using Twitter or...
Rants on Itunes
Ahhhhh — the joy of iTunes. When it is tuned and working well, everything is a blessing. When it is not working well — you can definitely want to slit your wrists with broken...
Personal Data Curation — Part 1
I have a different view of data than most. I have learned that after having countless discussions with people. I believe that my personal data is precious and needs to...
Your Friends Complain About Facebook Privacy, But What Do They Give Away?
Ah…The Facebook privacy issues.
I Need a Way To Consolidate File Shares — A DFS Replacement
File shares are a pain. In and of themselves they are not, but once you get past two or three — it gets painful. Now I have multiple computers with multiple drives...
Going Digital and On Demand — Part 5 Control
One of the problems with dealing with an all-digital home media library is not only playback like I talked about in the last article, but centralized control. Playback is the...
Going Digital and On Demand — Part 4 Playback
The biggest problem of course with moving to digital is how are you going to get the videos or music to where you want them to be. I’ve really fought...
Going Digital and On Demand — Part 3 Movies
Currently, I’m looking at ripping all of my DVDs over to a network share so I don’t have to go and dig them out anymore (since the collection is large...
Going Digital and On Demand — Part 2 Music
A few months ago I lost all of the MP3s that I had been accumulating for over 10 years. It was a bad hard drive crash and over 200GB of...
Going Digital and On Demand — Part 1 Pictures
This post has multiple parts to it, so fair warning I’m guessing this one is going to be long. Lately, I’ve been more and more annoyed at traditional hard-copy media....
The Great Photo Sharing Conundrum
My mother left me a comment yesterday (yes the mother I don’t talk to) about one of the baby pictures. Her comment asked if I could send her an email...
Would More Transparency Help The Used Car Market?
Seeing we’ve recently been used car shopping, I’ve noticed some problems in an industry which is at least a secondary issue with the automakers that exist currently. We can say...
The Authentication Hole in Autocheck.com
While shopping for cars this weekend, we decided to do a VIN history check against the cars we were looking out. While we didn’t find any that had been in...
Mourning The Death of Palm OS
I wrote yesterday about trying to find a solution to turn my Palm TX into a Bluetooth file server. So far no answers, but I wanted to record my history...
Palm TX Bluetooth File Server Software Wanted
So this week I charged up my old Palm TX, I’ve been mourning over the death of Palm OS. I enjoyed Palm OS, but even I’ve moved on. I have...
Search Giants Are Going To Make It Easier On Crossposters
This story hopped across my feed reader today, it piqued my interest since before I expanded it I only had the title, "Search giants join to tidy up Web addresses"....
Pipe Dream — Lifestreaming To Google Calendar
There is something I’ve wanted to do for a long time, which is to import RSS feeds into Google Calendar. The best reason I have to give you for wanting...
Getting Added to Google’s Lexicon as a Valid Word
What a long strange trip it’s been. Back before I started a blog, I was just a person on the swg forum with the name Creeva in his signature. I...
Things You Should Be Able To Answer When Contacting A Consultant
Someone I know came to me the other day about a consulting project that may or may not happen. What essentially he wants to be done is an overhaul of...
Netflix Why Do You Tease Me
There has been something I’ve been looking to have for months, a feed of my instant-watched media on Netflix. Sometimes I forget to log into my Hulu profile and I...
My Normal Information Consumption
I consume a ton of information a day. Some people think that they receive and process mass amounts of information, and some like Scoble definitely outpace by any measure of...
How Will We Explain To Our Children What Newspapers Were?
We hear time and time again about all the newspapers and magazines going out of business. How much longer will they survive in the same sense that we have seen...
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Uploading Photos To Flickr From a Nokia N810
One thing I’ve wanted to do is upload images from my Nokia N810 to my Flickr Account. I’ve mucked with mailing photos, but that’s never fun with bulk amount of...
Dear Facebook — I Want My Data
We’ve had a good couple of years. I don’t want to breakup, we will always be friends. I do say I hang out with Myspace sometimes, but they are not...
Now Other Local Governments Want The Ability To Jam Cell Phones
A few weeks ago I wrote about the NYPD wanting the ability to turn disable cellphone coverage in the case of a terrorist attack. Now it seems that states and...
Testing Your Internet Connection To See If Your ISP Is Interfering
Everyone else is writing about network neutrality today (here, here, and here), so I’m jumping on the bandwagon. Actually, I meant to write this last night, so since I’m slow...
Free Software on Craig’s List — Should You Trust It?
The other day I was browsing Craig’s List and noticed a listing for some free software. It wasn’t anything I was interested in, but I did stop and think about...
Features Google Reader Needs to Add
Google reader, I love you — I also hate you. You are like a bad relationship that I can’t break. You save me so much time on the web since I no...
Dealing With Different Public Domain Laws
Recently I started contributing to the International Music Score Library Project and I’ve run into a small snag. Currently, I’ve only uploaded two pieces ( I did say I was...
NYPD Wants To Disable Cell Phone Service During a Terrorist Attack
While I don’t really blame NYPD for wanting to evolve and learn from other terrorist attacks, I think they are very short-sighted in the idea of blocking cell phone service...
Just Because Something Is Online Doesn’t Mean It’s Public Domain
A few weeks ago I was having a discussion with one of my family members about website design and blogging. He stated that he was going to be starting some...
My Biggest Annoyance With Web 2.0 — Lack of Syncing
I’m the crossposting whore — I write once and I have everything designed to publish everywhere (well at least when things aren’t broken like Ping.fm to Myspace blogs). This however is not...
Twitter Phishing Scam — Proves There is Value To Twitter — Implications For the Attack
The recent Twitter phishing scam had nontwitter users scratching their heads on why this service would be targeted for a phishing scam at all.. Most people view little or no...
LA Times Wikified Editorials Turned Out To Be a Bad Idea — Who Would Have Thought?
A couple of news sources are reporting today (here, here, and here) that the LA Times is suspending its program of using a wiki for editorials. Now in a controlled...
Recovering A Lost Windows Partition
A few months ago my home server lost all of my MP3s from a share. I was freaking out thinking some process had magically deleted them. Then I noticed the...
Why The Internet is Failing It’s Public Domain Promise
The Internet with its promise of a revolution has succeeded in its goal of changing the landscape of information and how it is disseminated to the public at large. We...
Get an E-Mail or Twitter Alert When a Company Changes is Privacy or Security Policy
A couple of weeks ago I was talking with a friend about an idea for a new web service. The web service would have you enter all the services and...
Web Companies Today Are On Top Of Customer Service — Traditionals Take Note
Because of my article about removing certain feeds from my lifestream, it prompted an e-mail from Iminta. I just received an email back from Iminta saying " I just wanted...
Web Application Developers Can Learn A Bit From WordPress
Just the other day I wrote about cloud computing versus SaS terminology. A web application isn’t necessarily a cloud computing or SaS platform. It can be one or the other,...
I Think Fragmented Communities in Social Networks Are a Good Thing
I was listening to the last week’s episode of Net@Night and they were complaining that the Twitter community has become fragmented. This is true in the online world, as well...
Afraid Of Your Data Being Confiscated At The Border?
We’ve all read the articles flying around online over the last couple of months about your data being confiscated at the border and analyzed by the border patrol. The simplest...
Worried About Skyhook Mapping Your Wifi Router To a GeoLocation?
I was reading a story on slashdot about how Skyhook Wireless has been wardriving the United States mapping MAC addresses from the wireless routers it detects to your geographic location....
An RFID Enabled Loyalty Card — Big Brother
First of all this is just a thought on where things are headed. As far as I know for the moment none of the loyalty cards I use have an...
The Crossposting God Series Part 8 — Using A Lifestream to Keep Track of Your Crossposts
In part 8 I was going to write about crossposting to blogger, but that’s been delayed for the time being. I’ll get back to that subject as soon as I...
Mashable Doesn’t Really Like Ping.fm
There was an article on mashable today questioning if ping.fm and hellotxt were helping the web world or hurting it. I understand the author’s point that if you are using...
Being Excited About a New Browser
It’s been a long time since I’ve been excited about a new browser. Theoretically, I’ve never been excited about a new browser that was announced. I remember being excited when...
Sharing Information — Who To Share It With
First and foremost I don’t believe there is such a thing as sharing too much information. That being said I want to control what I share, I also want to...
Rant On The Myspace E-mail System
Now you know if you read my blog regularly that I don’t have the highest respect for Myspace. I have been using Myspace more and the issues of its flaw...
I’ve Been Sucked Into Myspace More — Curse You Myspace
Between setting up the blogs, playing the Myspace game Heroes, and tracking down alumni for band on Facebook and Myspace, I’ve spent a huge chunk of time on the social...
Will Social Networks Lead to Political Revenge?
Yesterday I saw an article about Barack Obama being the new number-one person on Twitter. If you don’t know what Twitter is, I don’t know how you managed to find...
Google Calendar Rant — It Needs More Features
Previously I railed against Google Docs and my issues with them there, now it’s the Google Calendar’s Team that I’m having issues with. I want to love Gcal. I really...
My New Method for GTD Should Appeal to Inbox Zero Geeks
I get distracted when I get home from work. I’m easily amused and have the "Ooooooooooooooooohhh Shiny" mentality type of distraction. I don’t deny it. I don’t exactly revel in...
Can I get 99.99 To Install Ubuntu For You?
I was reading my Digg RSS feed and this strange story popped up, Best Buy Sells Ubuntu for Only $ 19.99 USD. Now normally getting on retail shelves would be...
You Don’t Use Webmail — WHAT?
I thought the teens and pre-teens were the sounding board for tomorrow’s technology. Well, this isn’t always the case. I previously mentioned talking with my brother over the weekend. Well,...
If You Can’t Bypass It — Is It Secure?
Yesterday I was talking with my thirteen-year-old brother. He told me about how he was going to set up a website for this girl he knows. He was going to...
Upgraded My N810 to Diablo
Sunday night I was bored, so like all bored geeks I updated my device to the bleeding edge. The N810 feels peppier, but then again that could be my imagination...
Will We Ever Buy Used Hybrid’s With The Same Assurances As Gasoline Cars?
I was wondering today what the car market will be like in 10 years once hybrids as used cars become more common than they are today. I’m sure by that...
Rant on Google’s Picasa
The other day I had my rant on Google Docs, you would think I would end my Google criticism there, but I have a few more complaints. Picasa is a...
The Twitter Spam Battle In Myself
I’m a Twitter addict. I’m not going to be apologetic about it. I love twitter. I’ll be happier when the rewrite occurs and it becomes a stable messaging platform. The...
Google Docs Needs to Up The Size Limits
I’ve been working diligently like a good Google zealot and have slowly over the last couple of months started migrating over to Google Docs. The one thing that keeps tripping...
Living In The Clouds Part 2 — E-Mail
E-mail in the clouds. Essentially back in 1996 when Hotmail was first released (in the pre-purchased by Microsoft era) the dawn of popular cloud computing for e-mail began. The main...
The Crossposting God Series Part 7 — Where Can You Post By E-Mail?
Where can you post by E-mail? Well, this is the easiest of crossposting methods (especially if you use Blogger). There are lots of plugins for wordpress or movable type that...
Swapdrive, Symantec’s Stupid Mistake
It’s been 18 months since Symantec and I parted ways. I’ve never blasted them once on my blog or to any person, beyond idle small complaints. I’ve always stood up...
The Crossposting God Series Part 6 — RSS Feeds to Crosspost
RSS, I love RSS. RSS makes crossposting easy. It also allows me to read all of my news in Google Reader instead of jumping to 50 different sites that I...
Twitter is Brave — Bets on a Twitter Outage at WWDC?
It seems that Twitter is a being a little excited about the next big tech event, WWDC (World Wide Developers Conference — it’s an Apple thing). I first got the news from...
Living In The Clouds Part 1 — Introduction To Cloud Computing
The other day I wrote an article in which I briefly discussed cloud computing and how I accomplish it in my life. I wanted to start a new series called...
Strange Attachment
Yesterday I couldn’t find my N810. The hunt started on Sunday night and was reinitiated yesterday morning. No N810, nowhere in sight. As the night waned on yesterday I renew...
Pieces of Me That Exist in the Cloud
Mobile computing is becoming my newest fascination. My previous fascinations included network-based storage, network redundancy, and network security. I enjoy making things do things that they were meant or designed...
The Crossposting God Series Part 5 — Myspace
OK, I’ve repeated it a couple of times I think I’m ready to actually talk about it. Unlike some other services where I explain the community and the functions, I’m...
Hackintosh Failure
So last night I did try to turn my laptop into a Hackintosh, and it didn’t turn out so well. After installation, I seemed to have an issue with my...
Tonight I’m Trying To Make My Laptop A Hackintosh
So most of you know that I was running Ubuntu Hardy Heron, but during some patching, I hit some data corruption that caused my laptop to go all screwy. The...
The Crossposting God Series Part 4 — Entry, Distribution, and End Points
When we think about crossposting, it actually is more in-depth than most people think. From a very simple level, you go from one site to another. At a higher level...
The Crossposting God Series Part 3 — Live Journal and Derivative Sites
LiveJournal is another online blog that focuses on community. While it is not as active and communal as Vox, it is infinitely more focused on true interaction between users compared...
The Crossposting God Series Part 2 — Vox
Vox is a blog community that really focuses on the community aspect. When Xie first started blogging on vox I kind of poo-pooed it. However, I didn’t find some people...
The Crossposting God Series Part 1 — The Introduction
I’ve mentioned in passing in the past that I do crosspost across the interwebs. I’ve stated before, yet I’ll mention it again for this series that I do it so...
Does Our Desktop Anti-Virus Protect Us?
Recently at work, there was a security incident where a worker was tricked into loading malware on their machine. I was asked if your desktop antivirus solution fully protected us...
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Statcounter Lamentation
I think I finally got to the point that statcounter is completely useless for me. Now I’m rolling through the max log size of page views faster than I can...
Is is Possible to Out Scoble the Scobleizer?
What do I mean by out Scoble, Scoble himself? I’m not going to make as much money as he does, I’m not going to get as many followers as he...
Death of the CD Single?
A friend and I had a discussion about old technology disappearing and what gets lost in the migration. He put forth the example of the CD single. I stated that...
Yes, I Will Join Your Social Network, but I’m Not Logging In Though…
Last night I got into a discussion with Xie on how my crossposting and data centralization to the data broadcast system works. I was sad, I built a big flow...
I Hate Coming Up With Ideas That I Can’t Google How To Do
I’m a geek. There is no doubt or question about that. We’ve established this now, let’s move forward. I had a great idea today. I was going to hook up...
Geek Poetry: The Social Crosspost
I’m am a social creature Or that is how I seem I’m active on all the networks all in an elaborate scheme
Cable? Twenty-First Century? I Don’t Think So.
At work, I just overheard one lady telling another guy to get in the twenty-first century and get cable. Now it is just maybe me, but in my mind cable...
N810 — Day 3 and Counting
So last night was a work in progress/real-world scenario time. I was going to be out with a few hours to kill, and I didn’t take my Mac Book with...
The Kiosk Series — Part Four — Surferquest
Going further into my reviews of kiosk systems we acquired the Surferquest system here at work. Unlike my piece on SteadyState I’m not going to have a bunch of screenshots...
Nokia N810 and Me — Day 2
Last night was more of a bust than a boom for me. I had some specific goals in mind and I can’t say I really accomplished them.
First Night With The N810
A couple of days ago I asked the blogosphere if I should I get an N810 and like the blogosphere normally answers I got nothing back. That’s fine, I’m used...
Sometimes Obsolete Operating Systems Aren’t Obvious
Sometimes things aren’t obvious being obsolete in the world of computers. If you are a Windows user it’s completely obvious that you are using an older version of windows immediately...
Should I Get a Nokia N810?
To get an n810 or not is the question. A few days ago I wrote a couple of blog posts from my wife’s new n810. I have some reservations about...
Overzealous Social Network Blocking?
Work has always blocked social networks (ironically facebook always worked), but now in the days of internet applications, news sources, and social networks, the distinction is getting blurred. This is...
Very Sneaky Way to Lessen Bandwidth Twitter
I got a message from @ev that he was playing with a new service that gave recommendations on who to follow on Twitter. The service he was playing with is...
Mobile Blogging, Is It Possible For Me?
This Nokia device will take a bit to get used to, but most of the problems stem from fat thumbs. The more I do it the faster it becomes.
Feedburner Finally Integrates With Google Accounts
Earlier I had written that Google really needs to integrate it’s reporting services across the board. Now I still hope that do unify their reporting experience, but it seems Feedburner...
Internet Deadman’s Switch Part 1
One thing I’ve been working on for a while is an Internet Deadman’s Switch. With all of my crossposting and media re-usage activities in the grand scheme, this should be...
I Don’t Even Consider My Operating System Anymore
I guess that’s the point. Most people use windows and take for granted what OS they are using. I however am I bit different. I move between XP, Ubuntu, and...
Utterz — It Allows You to Cross Post to The Blogosphere
Lately, I’ve been playing with utterz, it’s kind of hard to explain but think of it as the gateway to blog from your cell phone. It’s a short-term blip-based podcast — call...
Spamming Myspace?
I was accused the other day of spamming Myspace with all of my updates, though it was indirectly on a friend’s blog via the comment section of a post he...
Care and Feeding of Your Abandoned Web Services
We all go through it, a new web service launches and we think it’s the greatest thing since sliced bread. We add a few friends convincing them to leave their...
Google’s Next Service Should Be — Google Reporting.
Original From Journey To Get Paid: Google’s Next Service Should Be — Google Reporting.
The Kiosk Series — Part Three — Microsoft SteadyState vs Group Policies
One of the programs that management wants us to look at for our kiosk implementation is Microsoft Steadystate, Microsoft’s all-in-one wizard creates a kiosk solution.
The Kiosk Series — Part Two — Management Considerations For Your Environment
Recently I’ve been put forth to design a kiosk solution for our internal environment. This is the second part of my kiosk series which is going to examine the testing...
The Kiosk Series — Part One — Choices For Your Environment
Recently I’ve been put forth to design a kiosk solution for our internal environment. This is the first part of my kiosk series which is going to examine the testing...
Refuting arguments against digital distribution of media
This was a post on a discussion for a forum I frequent. Thought it was applicable to bring it here. This is a response to a blog article entitled 5...
Livejournal Crossposting Fixed
Cross-posting to my livejournal account has been fixed. This was important to me since going from here, to livejournal, dandelife pulls in the information for my timeline widget there. It’s...
Do You Feel Guilty Not Fully Using Your Web Apps?
I know we all reach fatigue when it comes to using certain web apps/sites / etc. but at what point do you feel guilty?
Getting to Know Gnome Conduit — Intimation
I previously wrote about gnome conduit a couple of weeks ago, and since then I’ve been actively chasing it in numerous ways. I have joined the mailing list for it...
Virtualizing Your Training Environment For Quick Restoration With VMware
This was a persuasion piece I wrote for work on how to quicker deployments and restores in the training lab. It seems we had employees several times a week who...
My Great Internet Data Clean-Up
Do you know how every once in a while you need to just sit back and look at all of you that’s out there on the Internet? Granted I’m definitely...
Feedwordpress — De-Duplication Possible?
I had my hopes up that feedwordpress had updated their plugin to handle duplicate posts. At one point a couple of months ago I thought feedwordpress was going to be...
Bypassing Your Corporate Firewall Filtering or How to Torture The Firewall Admin
I will first start off with a couple of disclaimers. I don’t do this at work, I don’t need to. I respect my corporate policies and completely recognize why they...
Slashdot — Not Really Ready For Data Portability
I’ve been a Slashdot member for years (I would show you my uber l33t low(er) number but I can’t find the password). The other account has very little in the...
Gnome Conduit — Oh How I Hate to Love You
Gnome Conduit is both one of the greatest utilities Ubuntu and the most incomplete pain in the butt utilities. To give a quick run down to what it does here...
coComment and Why It’s Important to Your Life Caching Needs
I’ve written a few articles on life caching. For those that need to catch up check out this article. For those that don’t need the refresher course, let’s dig in....
Holy Cross Posting Web Integration Life Caching Nirvana
Andrew Shuttleworth has written a piece and made a graph of all the online networks he uses and how the information is then passed from web service to web service...
Upgrading to Hardy Heron
So for about the last 2-3 weeks, the sound card on my laptop stopped working. I tried to trace down the path of how I managed to get it working...
NFS — Oh I Hate You
Lately, we’ve had a security product at work that allows for secure end-to-end file sharing via NFS. That is about the best thing I can say about NFS at this...
Internet Protocols That Need To Die — My Top 3
The IETF has maintained the RFC database which defines Internet protocols into the nitty gritty sections that allow other individuals to implement them. This is all great in theory the...
Why I Hate MD5 or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Hate the Misconceptions
Most people in the technical field that have delved into cryptographic, public keys, or file authenticity have at one time or another at least heard of MD5. MD5 is a...
Late to the Lifestream Party?
Never — it’s still too early to be late.
Cheap and Dirty Windows Log File Archiving
So your company has a requirement to maintain log files for a year?
The HTML is Easy Myth
For years there has been a myth going around online. The detrimental myth hurts many and makes them feel inferior. The myth is that HTML is very easy. I read...
Digg needs a bookmarking feature for office workers
Sometimes there are videos or sites with sounds in general that office workers can’t view or watch to their fullest because of sound requirements. Why can’t we "watch" or "track"...
Life Caching is better then Life Streams
Life caching is setting up sites that you have complete control over to save data from sites over which you only have varied levels of control. Getting all of your...
Syncing Photo Sites
Currently, I’ve managed to disseminate my blog articles to several different blogs (coming in how localhost/WordPress works part 3). One thing I’m looking for is a way to sync photographs...
Spokeo — The Interesting, Exciting, and Scary
Spokeo is one of the latest Web 2.0 services I have tried here is how it works:
My First Web Browser
So reading my RSS feed I came across an article from Mashable — the article was a poll that asked what was your first web browser. While many people are mourning the...
The FDCC and You or How to Freak People Out With Change.
Currently, where I work we are implementing to roll out the NIST’s FDCC guidelines. All government agencies are mandated to be migrated to the "one desktop" architecture across the board....
The Ubuntu Journey — Part 4
I’m still happily enjoying Ubuntu. For an update — the webcam is working in the new Skype beta. My scanner is working but I have to sudo the scanning application to root...
The Ubuntu Journey — Part 3
Some random thoughts though I’m currently away from my laptop.
The Ubuntu Journey — Part 2
Well, I managed to get the sound working on my Toshiba laptop by following the steps inthis thread.
The Ubuntu Journey — Part 1
Today I’ve decided I’m moving to Ubuntu Linux on my primary computer, my laptop. The journey is fraught with challenges in the sense of getting my NIC and sound card...
Palantir Technologies -The Intelligence Community’s New Analysis Platform
The Intelligence Community’s New Analysis Platform is the webinar I am attending today. It is hosted by Carahsoft — the same people who hosted the Symantec Webinar I attended. The company whose...
Netflix privacy issues — The Government Knows Your Rentals
My earlier post about Palantir Technologies' intelligence sorting tool brought up that they used Netflix’s data as part of their dataset analysis. Further research shows that Netflix routinely releases their...
Haunted Houses in the Social Web World
I have friends that work at a haunted house and business from my perspective seemed to be down — but once again I only went up there on nights when business would...
The Demise of the PC is vastly overrated.
The computer and the Internet have arrived at a destination that allows interactivity beyond anything that has ever come before it. Some people prophesied that the personal PC will stop...
Problems With Plaxo
I’ve done a few posts saying the virtues of Plaxo. I will first admit I have not checked the forums, but I have checked their blog. So this is irritating...
Someone Thinks GrandCentral Should Be Criminalized
…Companies like Grand Centralshould be put out of business — they pose a threat to every online merchant who accepts credit cards.
Complaints on Grandcentral
I’ve drunk then kool-aid and I can say I am a Google fanboy, for the most part. Though the company has the motto "Do No Evil" — the motto has changed over...
Information Overload — You Can No Longer Be Invisible
Ok — the title in and of itself is a bit sensationalistic, but the truth of the matter isn’t so far off.
Palm T|X Issue fixed
When I first go my RAZR 3 months ago from t-mobile I managed to track down online how to pair it to my palm TX. The ongoing issue I was...
Vulnerabilities in the Ohio Voting System
One of my readers (yes I actually have at least one that’s not related or an outside friend) pointed out an article that he was working on that has been...
Review: Paper Titled "Security Document Theory" by James Moyer
Someone accidentally sent me a link yesterday to a security document that I was meant to read. I read the document (located here) and later discovered he sent me the...
Minimizing Phishing Attacks on Your Organization
Organizations of all shapes and sizes are vulnerable to social engineering attacks. It’s human nature to want to be helpful and to trust those that ask questions of us. This...
RSS Feed Management
Over the next few weeks, I’m going to be doing a few articles on RSS feeds and how to use them for more than just reading your news. Making RSS...
Phone Service Triple Crown
Well recently getting a GrandCentral invite I was planning on writing up a review — this is more likely to come tomorrow. In the interim, I thought I would offer up some...
Google Calendar Feature Needed
I have the tumble blog and that’s great. I have a superglu site, but that’s slowly getting replaced by the tumble blog. What I still want is an easy simple...
Vonage
So joining into another step of the twenty-first-century lifestyle — we got Vonage installed in the house. After hooking it up I am disappointed that the Linksys PAP2 that I purchased for...
Roll Your Own Cable — Kind Of
I’m the type of person that likes to rip his own DVDs and old VHS tapes onto the computer for archiving. In the past, I almost always had a computer...
Catch Up With Your Network of Social Networks
iDea Labs ::: Catch up with your network of Social Networks
Managing RSS — What To Do After The Feed?
RSS — great technology or a flop. In a lot of ways, it’s like the push technology developed by Netscape years ago — great in theory less so in practice.
Centralized Management
Now from a corporate network perspective not all of my ideas are sound and productive goals to go about things — but from a small home network we can get away with...
Blog Merge
Ok, I took all my blogs — with the exception of SNN, and migrated them all into this page. Hopefully, this will give a more concise reading experience to my friends, family,...
Home Networking 101
While I already have a home network, looking at things to do with it online is a painful task. Unless I know what I am doing and have a topic...
Examining Equipment — Part 1 MN-700
No this is not a review or recommendation post — the examining equipment posts cover the equipment I already own and what functions I wish to do with them. Ever find that...
Mobile Times — The Introduction
The 101 post of blogs — what are your goals and ambitions for this site?
Converting An 80-Year-Old Home Into A Modern Media Center — Part 2
Went through and ran more cabling in the last week. I have the rewiring run for 1 phone jack and a new central access point in the house. Wiring is...
Converting an 80-Year-Old Home Into a Modern Media Center
Moving on with getting settled into my home I’m working hard at getting everything modernized as far as the home wiring goes.
Things Every Network Admin Should Know
These are private notes that came out of exasperation when I worked as phone support.