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Secure blogging by email
Sam Ruby: Secure Blogging by Email. How sad, Sam tries to do blog by mail with comments and the next thing you know, you get spammed because of all those spyders looking for addresses. The address to send a comment to his blog entry is blog-1172.
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Building A New PC
I’ve already covered building a small Shuttle machine. Here’s the specification for a traditional desktop machine that is state of the art right now: ASUS P4PE. Tom’s Hardware confirms just how great this board is. The 845PE is the chipset and includes on board RAID and just about everything else. 2.53 or 2.66 GHz Pentium…
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Gamer Hardware
Now that I’m back into gaming, you kind of really need that high end hardware. Interesting to note that I’ll spend about 10x more for gaming stuff as I would personal productivity and about 5x more for digital photography and movies. Maybe that’s a hint about where the consumer business really is. In any case,…
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Ximian Connector For Microsoft Exchange
Ximian Connector : Buy and Install. Now that Ignition has Exchange 2000, I can try the Ximian Connector. This will let my Linux machine access Exchange. Wish me luck. Now, if only I could figure out why attachments in Ximian always show up as unknown, I’ll have made this a useful machine in a Windows…
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Trackbacks
tima thinking outloud. : The Next Generation of TrackBack: A Proposal. Amazing that trackback is only 6 months old. This is some great thinking about their future directions. They are very fundamental I think. It is the equivalent of a 2-way hyperlink which is just great. Thanks to John for pointing out Tema and all…
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Buying a camera: Nikon N80
An update from early February with more on accessories. Since last December, buying a 35mm camera has been on the list. So, now seems like a good time with the summer coming up. I’ve narrowed it down to a Nikon N80 (a.k.a. F80 outside the US). The price structure is interesting. To quote “Phillip Greenspun”:http://www.photo.net/nikon/n80,…
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State of the LAN Hardware
It’s been a while since I’ve studied the LAN hardware market, but it’s time now with all the many wireless standards coming out. The best overview I’ve seen comes from Small Net Builder Holiday 2002 Guide. This site BTW is amazing. Great reviews and tutorials. Other information includes: Router Reviews. It’s been a while since…
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Happy New Year!
Chinese New Year – 2003 is the Year of the Goat -2002 was Year of the Horse. Happy New Year. Here’s a great web page with lots of facts about it.
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Columbia Disaster
Saltire : Blogging by Steve MacLaughlin. A blog with all the details about the Columbia. Incredibly sad, our thoughts are with the friends and families of those that were lost. The Space Shuttle Must Be Stopped. I love space travel I really do, but as I read pieces like this, I have to say it…
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Cannondale Bankrupt
From the Roadbike Rider newletter and Bicycling.com. How sad, hopefully, it means they stay in business as is. It is amazing that both Trek and Cannondale are still American companies. Speaking of Cannondale, the company filed for chapter 11 reorganization on Tuesday. It will be taken over by Pegasus Partners, one of its two largest…
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Mini-ITX
mini-itx.com – news. Adrian and John Ludwig both point out how cool these new small form factor motherboard are. I’m going to build a new PC for Connie and for work. Maybe this is the way to do it. I love the Shuttle, but it is still a toaster. Let’s go to a real notebook…
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Trillian: All purpose IM
Cerulean Studios’ Trillian. Recommended by Cnet.com, this is a great tool that integrates ICQ, AIM, MSN, Yahoo and IRC all into a single client. No more running everyone’s IM client anymore. Neat.
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Career Thoughts
Questions: – When have you enjoyed your work the most? What are/were the circumstances? Well, I’ve been kind of lucky these last dozen years or so. I will say that until 1988, I was a year-a-job kind of guy. Just kept ripcording out of things that I couldn’t see make sense. But I got lucky…
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Email to Blog got easier!
DentedReality: PHP Implementation of the Blogger/MoveableType XML-RPC APIs. Thanks to Gary Burd for his tip about using the Blogger API to add this email to blog stuff. He suggested a search on blogger API PHP to find a library and darn if he wasn’t right. Here is one that I can work off off. Another…
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Linux for Windows users
Since I get asked to evaluate lots of Linux software in my new job, I thought I’d install Red Hat Linux 8.0 and see how hard it is to get it to work in a Windows world. The Linux folks have made great progress, but there is no easy transition/migration guide. I’m a little surprised.…
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Tacops
Now Tacops is a different story. It is based on an actual simulator used by the military and is written by an ex-major in the US Marines. So it is perhaps too realistic. Tacop Hints. So you end up with very realistic advice as from CD Magazine TAcops Hints continued. Or this second list War…
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Battlefield 1942
OK, I’ve been playing this game for a little bit to get the hang of it. Not the most realistic game. You have to look at TAcops for those, but kind of like Doom plus a little realism. Here’s a good list of hints that I’ve found: Battlefield 1942 Hints. The basic hints. Also has…
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Portmagic
Pure Networks: Port Magic. Hey give this one a try, manages ports for you. Great for playing Internet games. Gave me a great excuse to buy all the latest games. Go 1942!
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New categorization ideas
PuzzlePieces on Blogosphere. wow, what a great list of the interesting new ideas about categorization on the web. Don’t you just love the ’net and blogosphere? Post your ideas on LazyWeb, and anything onto the Internet Topic Exchange (new, the “first public implementation of the Ridiculously Easy Group Forming concept”). Find physically near websites with…
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Careers and Things
Eve asked me some great questions about careers and advice. Not sure I had the best answers, but thought the questions were interesting.
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Trek 560
I have a beloved 1985 Trek 560 road bike. I’m updating its components as my second bike. For more detials, Vintage trek has scanned in the actual 1985 Trek Racing Bike Brochure. This means I’m going to: Drive Train. Changing out all the six speed drive train into a Campagnolo 10-speed set with a combination…
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Email to Blog
A long standing project. I actually figured out pretty much how to do it with B2/Cafelog, but I’m going to convert everyone at Geek Fishing over to MovableType and restart the project with MovableType. That does mean I have to learn Perl though, so it will take a while. On the other hand, in the…
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An Explanation…
This represents a new use of categories in MovableType. I’m going to keep track of various projects that I work on by adding the category uncompleted to them and then keeping track of all entries that are uncompleted. It really is a test of how to use MovableType where the primary sorting isn’t date, but…
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WiFi Sniffer and Gizmodo are cool
Gizmodo : Sniffing for WiFi. Wow, a pocket WiFi sniffer. I love it. Plus, the Gizmodo website is superb for dedicated geek toy lovers like me.
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Connie's New Car
Well, our 1996 Volvo was really in the shop quite a bit last year, so Connie would love a new one. She loves the Volvo brand and the new 2003 Volvo XC90 seems just the ticket given the number of bodies we need to take around. The main issue is that the third seat is…
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Quotable Quotes
I’ve been kind of a collector of great quotes and aphorisms for a while now. There is presentation I did for Ignition a few years ago where I collected them. So, here are few I’ve been using now. E. B. White would have loved this copy from a London newspaper advertisment for Lord Shackleton’s ill-fated…
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HDTVs
It’s been about a year since I really studied the home theater market. Well, both Dad and Jennie are in the market for new sets, so it’s time to dive right back in. Here are the sources I used: Home Theater Spot. I’m biased of course, but I really like Paul who runs it and…
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Backpacking Reviews
BackpackGearTest.org. It is still way too cold, but not too early to think about backpacking and hiking. Here’s a nice looking user oriented site for Backpack Gear. Gear Review. And, here’s another one. I also use Backpacker Magazine and Outside Magazine for reviews
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Skiing Apparel
Been doing quite a bit of skiing with the kids. Big thing has been keeping them safe and warm, so I’ve been surfing looking for the right clothes. Here’s what I’ve found: About.com – Skiing Buyer’s Guide. This looks like a pretty comprehensive review of just about everything. Ski Magazine Gloves 2003 Review. On gloves…
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Skiing in Seattle
Here’s a list of ski resources that I use, given this kind of terrible season up there: RSN Ski Conditions. Here’s another good site, given this on again, off again, ski conditions list. This is the US wide list that I use to figure out if there are good conditions in Washington or whether it…