So last night I was running on fumes and had some really weird dreams involving this year’s MacWorld and what mysterious new products may or may not be released. Figured I’d record it here a day early before i get caught up in the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field watching all the live blogging and […]
MacWorld 2008 Predictions… Based on Last Nights Dream Read Post »
Being a new Mac user and a computer user of 15-ish years, I figured I’d list some of the things that were not the garden of eden utopia that the idea of a mac sometimes is. Where possible, I’ve included my solutions or findings. Anyone out there in the lazyweb who has ideas to address
Downsides of The Mac Switch Read Post »
So I’m now a mac user….. kinda. Only in the work sense though. At the office Christmas party I asked the boss if when the next new hire is in the office they could get my current work laptop (an Acer somethingorother) and I could get a new low end Macbook. Mostly I spend my
Mac Switcher…. Kinda Read Post »
I’m not sure if something in Facebook has changed recently, but I just got my first bit of spam. I’m sure she’s a lovely girl and all, but isn’t part of the whole idea of social networks that they prevent spam by restricting messaging or email to your group of approved friends? Yes, you can
The Start of the Uselessness of Facebook Read Post »
Had to share this quote from a co-worker in instant message today (we had just gotten an internet filtering proxy server running again): (3:18:32 PM) Alan: porn free internet (3:18:40 PM) Alan: what’s the point… (3:24:49 PM) Coworker: It’s true. Without porn, we’d all be without our jobs. Think about it. (3:30:11 PM) Alan: that’d
Why Sysadmins Have Jobs Read Post »
I had an inspiration to create a less-personal (but still personal) tech-oriented blog, kinda a Scoble-like thing, but with more of an Alan-esque twist. Basically this, but without the random long posts about things that no one but me cares about 🙂 Though about something like techno blog, techno geek blog, geek blog, something like
Searching for Domain Names Read Post »
Seeing Paul’s post on Microsoft’s live.com webapp offerings prompted me to pen some quick thoughts on something related to this that I came across a bit ago. I read about the new live.com webapps and figured I’d give them a try (hear something about it on a blog or podcast or something). Going to get.live.com
Thoughts on Microsoft’s Webapps at Live.com Read Post »
Dear Shaw….. provider of both home internet and internet to the main feed at work. Why did you choose my week on call to decide to do things?
Well, it’s 10:30pm and my morning project took about 12 hours to do, but it’s done now. It started out with “why don’t I just throw a spare hard drive into my MythTV system and install the latest version to see how well it works?” That part went fine, but as soon as I did
MythTV System Rebuilt Read Post »
As I said I just got an iPod, so now I have to deal with managing the music for it in my particular situation. I have the following going on at home right now: A fileserver with approximately 140G of mp3s all nicely tagged via MusicBrainz‘s tools and organized nicely into directories (ie: music player
Thoughts on the iPod and Music Management Read Post »