Category: Computing
My Google-fu, it is strong
March 1st, 2010, No Comments
Friday, I found a very nice looking job lead on Workopolis for a Red Hat system administrator position with knowledge of Drupal or EC2 a plus. Brilliant! My skills fit those requirements like a glove. Friday night, I wrote a cover letter and prepared to submit said letter and resume to the [...]
Fun and games with Time Warner Cable
February 7th, 2010, 2 Comments
Our cablemodem has been crapping out on us periodically. It would just stop working and we’d have to unplug its power and plug it back in to get it running again. This didn’t happen very often so it wasn’t an urgent matter. Yesterday, I had to run errands in Durham anyay, so I took the [...]
Drupal development note
September 21st, 2009, No Comments
Don’t point two different versions of Drupal at the same database. Bad, confusing things happen that take hours to track down.
Monitor Envy
September 19th, 2009, No Comments
I’ve been using dual-monitor setups for something 6 or 7 years now. I got my first set at NIEHS when I worked there. I thought it would suck since I was moving from a single 21″ CRT to dual 19″ LCDs, but I quickly got used to it and really liked the additional real estate. [...]
IPhone geekery
September 13th, 2009, No Comments
I’ve had an iPhone for a few weeks now and am really enjoying it. Tonite I discovered an app for letting me post to my blog from my phone and couldn’t resist trying it out.
Google Reader annoyance
July 17th, 2009, No Comments
Sometime recently I noticed a change int he way the ‘Mark all as read’ button works in Google Reader. I used to be able to press it, have all the articles in the listing marked as read, and then go back and hit ‘m’ to set one or a few of them back to ‘unread’ [...]
New twist on an old joke
June 18th, 2009, No Comments
This just came across one of the mailing lists I’m on:
Jesus and Satan have a discussion as to who is the better programmer. This goes on for a few hours until they come to an agreement to hold a contest, with God as the judge.
They sit themselves at their computers and begin. They type furiously, [...]
Lenovo mans up and does the right thing
June 2nd, 2009, No Comments
One of the things I’ve always loved about my ThinkPad and Lenovo notebooks is the System Update feature. I’d just run it and get all the latest updates from lenovo. They also notified users of critical updates via the Message Center facility. Very nice, until Lenovo terminated System Update. Around the beginning of March, SU [...]
Google is starting to piss me off
November 21st, 2008, 1 Comment
I use iGoogle as my default home page both at home and at work. I carefully selected the set of gadgets I wanted on that page and arranged them just so that I can quickly reach the websites I use frequently. Perfect.
Then Google, in their infinite wisdom, decides to force all iGoogle users to have [...]
Major UUS-L List Changes
September 9th, 2008, 3 Comments
I don’t think I’ve mentioned here before that I’m the list owner for UUS-L, the oldest existing Internet-based mailing list for Unitarian Universalists. UUS-L started in early 1991 when Steve Traugott gathered a list of people interested in a UU mailing list and got it created at the University at Buffalo, part of the State [...]
