I have a confession to make. Before my life in computing, I was a stockbroker, and flirted with going into the family business, which is real estate (see a somewhat complete list of jobs I’ve held here. It’s good for a laugh). My father is a certified tax assessor and real estate appraiser who specializes…
Category: Technology
Migrate a NIS password map to LDAP… FAST
I came across this awk hack in an old code repository today. I slapped it together a couple of *years* ago now, and it was never really worthy of being distributed for general use. However, if you’re like me and never made friends with the PADL migration tools and all you need is a quick…
GCalDaemon Looks Promising
I just came across an article about GCalDaemon, which is a Java-based (meaning it should work on any platform) program to keep any iCal-compliant calendar in sync with your Google Calendar. And yes, this is also a bidirectional sync’ing tool! Technorati Tags: productivity, technology, google-calendar, Social Bookmarks:
My Blogger Days are Over
WordPress.com, at some point over the past few weeks or so (I guess) started supporting the import of blog entries from Blogger.com blogs. This is fantastic, because I was participating in the maintenance of more than one blogger blog and ever since the move from the old Blogger to the new one I’ve been completely,…
Flickr Notes is the coolest thing ever
I can’t believe I’ve been using Flickr for like, two years, and only just now discovered “Notes”. I discovered them when I got a link from Tom Limoncelli’s blog to pics of the North Jersey LOPSA-NJ meeting that took place this past week. I stumbled upon this picture that had notes and completely lost my…
Finally! A Social Bookmark Link Generator for WordPress.com Users
If you want to allow readers of your wordpress.com blog to post your entries to stumbleupon, del.icio.us, or whatever, there isn’t a sidebar widget or anything provided for you to do that. I consider this a shortcoming of the wordpress.com service, but whatever. I finally found a bookmarklet that will provide some cut-n-paste code to…
My Google Calendar Wish List
So I’m still sort of in the process of building my “life management system”, the goal of which is to make it completely digital, while also attempting to make it as fool proof as my old Franklin Planner. Google Calendar is, so far, the foundation for this system. I really haven’t been using Google Calendar…
Time Management for *this* System Administrator
A fellow New Jerseyan, fellow LOPSA-NJ member, fellow O’Reilly author, and all around good guy Tom Limoncelli wrote a book called “Time Management for System Administrators”, in which he boiled down a lot of the concepts and philosophies you’d otherwise have to read multiple tomes to learn about. It’s a wonderful book, and it’s easy…
New Word: Blogume
I had this really neat idea today, but I don’t have time to develop it, so someone needs to go make a million bucks with it and send me like $25,000 for the idea fee. The idea is simple: Create a centralized website that basically hosts or aggregates blogs that are geared toward potential or…
Web 2.0 As Closed and Redundant as it is Cool and Creative
I admit that I use, and like, a number of so-called Web 2. 0 applications. The blog you’re reading is actually hosted at WordPress.com. The good folks there let me make it look like it lives somewhere else if I want to, and as an added bonus, WordPress is a downloadable, open source application in…