Man, my worst fear has come true. Blogger is becoming *evil* from a usability perspective, and here I am trapped, because if I switch, all of those posts basically go away… or at least the old URLs become completely invalid. Maybe I just chalk it up, import the posts into something that isn’t tied to…
Category: Technology
Yes, one Chevy Volt Please
I came across this entry on autobloggreen.com about the Chevy Volt, which is GM’s latest stab at convincing us that they really do put some effort behind getting an electric car out the door to us sometime in the next millenium. I have to admit that, while I’m wholly *unconvinced* that I’ll ever see this…
Death to the vacation program
The vacation program is used to make sure that people who send you mail while you’re on vacation or otherwise out of the office for extended periods of time get a reply telling them not to expect to hear from you for a while. I personally have *never* liked the vacation program, because people misuse…
Apple, Laptops, and the outlook for Linux on the desktop
I should make a disclaimer here that I’m professing no real knowledge here. I’m speculating. And partly, I’m playing devil’s advocate. Apple, so far as I can tell, is going pretty much nowhere in terms of server deployments. Oh, they make servers, it’s just that I don’t see them really going very far. However, with…
Blogger out of beta…. and into alpha
So blogger is no longer in beta. In launching their first non-beta version, however, Blogger has actually broken several things, several peoples’ blogs, and generally made a huge mess of things. After being prompted by shiny-clicky things to upgrade to the new version of Blogger, a great many bloggers were greeted with error pages, wrong…
TUX shutting down
I’ve worked for various publishing houses in various capacities. Sure, I write a lot, but I also like to get into the back-end operations when I can. I think publishing is a lot of fun in general. It’s also very challenging. So there’s this company (SSC) that woke up one day and said “Let’s start…
Back to work!
Happy new year, all. Now back to work! Ok, so before I went back to work, I read my buddy’s blog (http://onefreevoice.com), and he started a Technorati Profile, which I didn’t know existed. I went to check it out, and created a profile myself. Technorati Profile Ok. NOW back to work 🙂
Great uses for old hardware
A friend of mine has found some good uses for hardware that was being thrown out…. rather prematurely I might add. It never ceases to amaze me what people throw out, and how much usefulness and life is often left in it. One thing I’m doing with my own old hardware is outfitting them with…
More CMS Requirements Than I Thought
I thought my needs were simple. When I started LinuxLaboratory.org, it was full of features. User forums, news categories, icons and emoticons everywhere, downloads, interviews… it was really all-singing and all-dancing. It was also too much for one guy to manage. I decided to trim the fat and get back to basics. LinuxLaboratory.org started as…
Giving a Presentation? Lose the Laser Pointer
You heard me. Put down the laser pointer and slowly step away. There are two things that a lot of presenters do that just drive me nuts: Reading the slides to me. I can read. I don’t need you to do it for me. And, if every single word you want to say fits on…