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…
The Vista Verdict: Don’t Bother
With all of the hubbub surrounding Google Office today I decided to write this blog post using Google Writely, which is an in-browser word processor that is part of the Google Docs & Spreadsheets service. It’s pretty nice so far, and I like that it has an autosave feature, because I’ve made use of it…
Um… Nevermind
Ok, so I’m publicly uncommitting myself from the project I committed myself to yesterday. Turns out, Mark Burgess has already done this with a tool called DeliciousSQL Importer. Sure, the data model doesn’t stand up to my rigorous normalization standards, but with this, I can get at my data, and do whatever I want with…
XSLT, SQL, and Delicious Library
Ok, I’m publicly committing myself to this pet project. I’m going to make it possible to take the data in Delicious Library’s xml backend and store it in a properly normalized database, so that other useful things can be done with the data. Here’s the quandry I find myself in: I have a good number…
I hate school buses
I know I’m probably a horrible person for hating school buses, but I do. I can’t help it. I hated them when I had to ride them to school, and now that I drive to work, I really can’t stand them. I realize there’s probably not another solution to the transportation issue. I’m just sayin’….
Safari isn’t that popular, and a neat Google search
Some number of *months* ago now, someone tried to justify my supporting Safari in a web application by saying “Safari is the most popular browser on the Mac”. That person further asserted that as Macs become more popular, Safari is also sure to become more popular. Now, I use a Mac, and I know lots…