http://www.gobelins.fr/galerie/animation/gen2006-1.htm
I’m not sure I understand it. But, I did think it was funny!
TECH: You have to just love what the inet can do … … make you laugh!
Monday, July 10, 2006
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TECH: BACKUP MONDAY, joins my “line up”!
Monday, July 10, 2006Similarly to when I created “wireless wednesday”, I am “creating” Backup Monday.
Wireless wednesday was my short hand way of scheduling one day a week that I would take VWBIIE out and exercise it.
As an old IT guy, I know that assumptions are silently invalidated by the universe. Like the old ture-isms, “diversely routed networks aren’t”, “disaster recovery wont”, and “you never find the last bug in your application”, “backup doesn’t”, one has to aggressively prove that stuff works.
It’s an article of faith in the IT “religion”, that you can leave something working, or have something that works flawless every time you try it, but as soon as you turn around, depend upon it, or try to demo it — typically to a Customer or your boss’ boss — it will appear as if it never ever worked. Evil spirits will come from far and wide to sprinkle bad luck upon you and ever device you then touch.
So, on Mondays I will focus on “backups”. Take them and off-site them. Test them. See what works and what doesn’t.
One has to try to defeat those evil spirits any way you can.
When was the last time you used a backup? Care to be on it working? Just tell me if you need it to or not. ;-)
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TECH: GOOGLE puts a new better version of PAGES out
Sunday, July 9, 2006http://jxymxu7sn5ho9d.googlepages.com/home
Neat way to throw up pages.
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TECH: “PLAXO” doesn’t like certain email addresses
Friday, July 7, 2006From a recent email:
“FYI, I don’t know if you’ll care, BUT, Plaxo doesn’t like your email address. If Plaxo doesn’t like it, I’m sure that it falls afoul of other stuff like spam filters. I prefer, for business purposes, boring old email addresses like LASTNAME_FIRSTNAME_MI @ A_GOOD_ISP or GMAIL or YAHOO. FWIW ymmv, fjohnr”
And here’s what Plaxo regurgitated
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The following messages were not sent because the recipient addresses were identified as likely to be distribution lists. For privacy purposes, Plaxo blocks messages sent to group addresses like all@xyz.com or xyz@yahoogroups.com.
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Forewarned is fore armed!
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TECH: VWBBIE down the shore is a little slow today.
Monday, July 3, 2006Download Speed: 126 kbps (15.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 1284 kbps (160.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
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TECH: VWBBIE can compete on speed
Saturday, July 1, 2006FROM MY LIVING ROOM
AOT that parking lot I was in the other day!
VWBBIE
Download Speed: 103 kbps (12.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 329 kbps (41.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
WIFI2CABLE
Download Speed: 3651 kbps (456.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 353 kbps (44.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
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TECH: VWBBIE and LUGGABLE come thru
Friday, June 30, 2006Yesterday, a lot of my technology delivered nicely.
LUGGABLE is a power pig. Without an umbilical power cord, it will only run for at best an hour. So, recently I bought a auto lighter to ac plug at WalMart labeled Black&Decker. It says a 100w. I know that LUGGABLE insists on 130w to boot from the ac adapter. If the plugs not in all the way or crimped in a certain direction, ng.
So yesterday morning, I “did” my morning scrum for work by cellphone from a parking lot.. Their blackberry cellphone was strangely out of power so I had to use mine personal one. Arghh!
Then, I booted LUGGABLE from the battery. And then plugged it into the cigaretter lighter. It worked.
I went up on VWBBIE, after fighting off all the public wifis who wanted to service me. I should have tried them, but I was not into lab work. I had deadlines.
So, I tapped out my notes. Put them into the corporate email. Watch them come, via bcc, into my retail email account dedicated to work.
Shut down everything. Locked LUGGABLE in the trunk. And, went about my sad duties of the morning.
But all in all VWBBIE performed well. LUGGABLE was good. AND, my new BDPOWERPLUG was a great addition.
YMMV
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TECH: Thinking about contact data.
Wednesday, June 28, 2006I was thinking about the contact data that I collect. It really is disorganized much like life. What I really want is a tool for my desktop, with a web backup and access, that can vacuum in data from various sources and present different views of it. So for example, instead of having contact data locked up in MCalumDB, Plaxo, LinkedIn, Outlook, text files, and who knows where else, I want it in a standard format such that I use it when and where I want it. So for example pipe all the data to outlook in one massive file for email purposes. So for example, pipe it to linkedin for identification of potential mindmelds. So for example, pipe it to and from plaxo for automagic update. Hmm, don’t know if such can be done.
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TECH: Playing with text that has to have come form me
Wednesday, June 28, 2006This is a test of encrypted content posted to a blog and of interest to no one. When the text is encrypted with my private key, then anyone with my public key SHOULD be able to read it with the assurance that it came from me.
—–BEGIN PGP MESSAGE—–
Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (MingW32) – WinPT 0.12.1
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DyCqE0WvyU96ytHYtsBh8acqN7PWQlVc5peULBABhFEX8AD0gtisJAJ63+ks4IWX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=2GiK
—–END PGP MESSAGE—–
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TECH: LIFEHACKER provides a good “heads up” about free desktop search tool!
Monday, June 26, 2006http://lifehacker.com/software/desktop-search/download-of-the-day-x1-desktop-search-183384.php
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Desktop search company X1 has just released their popular premium desktop search software for free.
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