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Monthly Archives: March 2009
Oh the joys of plumbing problems
Friday night as we were about to goto dinner, my wife tells me that she sees some water running down the driveway. I took a look, saw a pool of water near the water shut off, shut off the water … Continue reading
Another MacHeist Bundle and More Tempers
I’ve waffled on what I think about bundled software like that being offered at MacHeist at a steep discount. My latest ramblings have been supportive of it. As a consumer, it’s great to get lots of stuff for just a … Continue reading
Fighting SSL and winning
I’m in the process of setting up a Zimbra server for work and as part of it, I’m documenting configuration for all types of machines and devices we use. One of the devices is a Palm OS Treo (755p in … Continue reading
Documentation made easy
About a month ago, I wrote about a program called ScreenSteps for creating documentation for work. I bought the program because nothing else was out there that I could find (I’m not ready to do video documentation), but had major … Continue reading
Cool wall
As our son gets older, we realized that we’ll need some place to place his artwork, pictures, and our items. Most people use magnets to put this on their refrigerator, but our fridge has wood inserts on the front to … Continue reading
Flaw in San Diego’s water conservation plan
Another letter to the editor: In your article http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/mar/20/bn20water12926/?zIndex=70189 about the mayor announcing his plans for water budgeting, he is missing an important component, the number of members of a household. The water budget is based on water usage in … Continue reading
Holiday season in March?
This week was a pretty exciting week for a geek like me. Google Voice was rolled out, iPhone 3.0 was announced, and the hardware for our new Zimbra server shipped. Google Voice, the successor to GrandCentral has lots of cool … Continue reading
Who says hacks don’t cause problems?
The other day I had lunch with a friend and a friend of his wanting to get into Mac development. We were talking and this guy said that he admired a company that created “haxies”. I said that I really … Continue reading
Fun with multi-homing
We have a bunch of Xserves running Mac OS X server at work. Most of the machines are only using one of the 2 built in Ethernet ports as they are on the LAN. We have 2 machines that are … Continue reading
Misinformed Author
As is pretty routine in our lousy local paper, I read an article where the author didn’t bother to do his research. He lumps LinkedIn with MySpace and Facebook as social networking sites routinely used by those under 18. Here … Continue reading