Last night I discovered likaholix.com and was able to get an account during their beta phase testing. You can see my likaholix page here, but I thought I’d take a few minutes to jot down some initial thoughts about it, because I do think it’s interesting. Likaholix makes it Mind Numbingly Easy™ to quickly “like”…
Category: Me stuff
Marc Andreessen on Everything
Marc Andreessen was on Charlie Rose last night, and I missed it. A buddy told me about it, and I wanted to watch, but things just got in the way. So here it is. So, this is the very first time I’ve ever embedded video into a blog post. I couldn’t help myself. Why? I’ve…
10 Mistakes in Systems Management
I’ve seen the inside of lots and lots of businesses over the past decade or so. Though the technology has changed somewhat dramatically in many areas of the data center, the general, high-level methodologies for building a sane environment can still be applied. While the implementation is typically done by system administrators, it also helps…
Advanced Linux Course… In Chicago… In January!
You heard it right, folks. I’ll be in lovely downtown Chicago for two weeks. Actually, I’m teaching 4 classes, each one consisting of a week’s worth of half-day sessions. 1 beginner course, two intermediate courses, and an advanced course. I’ll also be returning in February to do an intermediate and advanced course. This was the…
2009: Waiting to Exhale
Lots of blogs list a bunch of stuff that happened in the year just past, and I have done a year-in-review post before, but in looking back at posts on this blog and elsewhere, what strikes me most is not the big achievements that took place in technology in 2008, but rather the questions that…
Holiday Project: Plot Google Calendar Events on Google Map
[UPDATE: 2009/08/08]: I’ve now gotten stuck on two separate projects, trying to find a bridge between Python code that generates data, and javascript code that is apparently required in order to present it. I haven’t found such a bridge. For one project, I was able to do what I needed with ReportLab (there was no…
What Ordinary Users Think About IE: Debunked
Point all of your chain-mail-forwarding family and friends at this post. It’s a collection of things people have said to me, or that I’ve overheard, that reveal little tidbits about what people are thinking when they use IE. I have to use IE – it’s my internet! IE is not your internet. IE is what’s…
Open Source Technology US Conference Calendar
One of the best ways to keep up with your field and network at the same time is to attend conferences. It’s one of the things I look forward to every year. After learning that O’Reilly has decided to commit blasphemy and *not* hold OSCON in Portland, Oregon the same week as the Oregon Brewers…
Linux on Laptop = Epic Fail
I brought my MacBook Pro in for a warranty repair yesterday around noon. Since then I’ve been using a Lenovo T61 to get basic work done, and also to see if any progress has been made in the area of Linux support for my laptop. I bought this laptop specifically because a website said that…
On Remote Workers and Working Remotely
I’ve been on both sides of the remote worker relationship. On the manager side, I’ve managed some good-sized projects using an all-remote work force. Indeed, I’ve hired, managed, fired, and promoted workers without ever knowing what they look like. On the worker side, I do most of my work remotely, and I have for some…