Archive for February, 2008
Do Your Work. Don’t Be Stupid.
My productivity has noticeably improved since making this my desktop wallpaper. As soon as Outlook gets minimized I see this… and it’s back to work!
Via InterfaceLIFT, by Spargett.
Floppy Disk Pen Holder
Quite a while ago, my wife left me alone at home for an evening with nothing to do. Arguably, I could have cleaned or something, but I was feeling crafty, and had happened upon a tutorial on Instructables for creating a Floppy Disk Pen Holder. I looked at the first page, totally grokked the idea, [...]
Keeping SSH connections open (in PuTTY)
Lifehacker posted an article this morning about keeping SSH connections open in Linux (which was just a re-posting of an article on FOSSwire).
This is helpful for all of those Linux users out there, but for those of us who have a Windows desktop with the same needs, the solution is a bit different. If you [...]
Clearing the Baffles
Kevin, a buddy of mine from grad school, recommends the zen-like experience of disclosing your drafts and then deleting them. I only have three at the moment, but nonetheless:
Rebooting After Tough Crititcism (tags: management)
Using Outlook to Get Things Done (tags: lifehacks, productivity, software notes, windows)
Managing Burnout (tags: management)
Each one seemed like a good idea at [...]
Home Backup Project - Part 7: Four Months Later
About four months ago, I set out to fix a looming technology problem at home, having no solid backup strategy. After some arguably un-scientific research, I came up with a solution which has given me a decent amount of the ever-sought-after piece-of-mind. It looked something like this:
I subscribed to JungleDisk using Amazon S3 storage. It [...]
Do you ever feel like this?
As the digg submitter said, “I’m betting on the camel”.
This image got me thinking about how this is allegory for bringing new ideas to old organizations. In a thankfully distant past job, I found myself in exactly this situation, trying to innovate where it was nearly impossible to do so. It’s hard when you come [...]
Testing Lightbox
I thought I’d play with lightbox a little, because it’s just that cool.
First, a couple of independent images.
Then, a series of three images.
I did have to modify lightbox.js a tad to give it absolute url paths for its included image files. Other than that, it’s a drop-in enhancement for image viewing.
Using Subversion to safeguard my photos
During the backup project, I created a subversion repository for all of my installation media and installation files - anything I’d need to set up a new computer. The intention was to have a system that was a solid backup for these data, available for download from just about anywhere. Over the months, I’ve also [...]
If I Am Ever a Starfleet Captain…
I will not ask “What does God need with a space ship?” and then order a torpedo strike. I will order the torpedo strike first, and ponder theology on the trip home.
Taken from Viable Paradise. Many, many more funny responses taken right from the biggest, silliest plot holes in just about every Star Trek series. [...]
Reading a book per month
When I talked about Quadrant II, I also mentioned coming up with a long list of goals for things to accomplish over the next few years. Two related goals were:
Read one book per month.
Read the entire Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson
Stephenson is my favorite author. I’ve enjoyed reading (multiple times) every single book that he [...]
