It’s been a while since I wrote a review, and I really have to get back on that. There are so many really good bits laying around and unless we write about them, they don’t get any love.
This site has been around for a while, but I’m steadily shocked when people say they’ve never heard [...]

Lately I’ve taken to writing reviews for the places I visit when I’m out on business. This one was a personal trip, but the experience was bad enough I had to put it in writing.
Seattle: Hooters: Bad Location/Service, but it’s still Hooters

I’ve always been a big fan of automation. I admit it; I’m lazy.
At work I’m constantly having to type out the same stuff in tickets, emails, etc. The last time I spent any considerable time automating something was with expect in shell scripts. Of course that’s not so good with windows unless you’re into pain. [...]

If someone asks you what kind of music you like, what do you tell them? We’re limited to using industry sub-genres: smooth jazz, vocal trance, etc. Wouldn’t it be nice to narrow it down a bit? Now you can.
Enter Pandora:
bq. Together we set out to capture the essence of music at the most fundamental level. [...]

I picked up Getting Things Done by David Allen when I realized the ‘GTD’ acronym was becoming a mainstream term for organization. If a book had been pervasive enough to coin a new term, I had to check it out. I wasn’t disappointed.
The first chapter was engaging. David explained why letting your mind keep track [...]

This is a great read: Top 10 System Administrator Truths. Thanks Kris!

You arrive at work and the first message in your voicemail is from one of your users saying that the webserver is “behaving strangely.” Your first thought is that it’s luser time, but you haven’t read your first ticket yet this morning so you figure you might as well take a leisurely stroll through the [...]

So this morning I was greeted by a message from AOL’s system when I booted up Gaim:
AIM added a new AIM Bots group to your Buddy List. Send IMs to moviefone and shoppingbuddy for great holiday flicks and gift ideas. (To remove ‘em, just right-click and delete! Learn More)
I messaged shoppingbuddy and got a menu [...]

If you’ve updated to the bleeding edge release candidate of Firefox, you may notice that a lot of your plugins have been disabled. An article by LiewCF.com posted by Lifehacker.com provides a nice workaround.

This story over at Digital Media Minute got snagged up in my Feed Demon watch for ‘firefox’. It’s a free software called CSS Vista that lets you design CSS while viewing it in a split pane for firefox & IE.