Note to self:
Later, read through all the responses to this slashdot thread about what you would include in an IT toolkit. Looks like there are some pretty good tools and ideas running around in there, but I need to do some work and can’t really look at them all right now. (link via nf0)
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OpenOffice 1.1 released. I tried out 1.0 way back when and found it to pretty useful in some situations. Unfortunately I couldn’t really replace Office with it because so much of what I do is in Access and Open Office doesn’t have a database component, relying instead on a somewhat difficult to configure interface with…
There are a number of arms races going on, hackers, spammers, etc. This one’s about popups. Some folks figured out how to use Flash to get around Firefox’s pop-up blocker, and thanks to a post on Steve Holden’s blog, I see that someone had figured out a config change to combat that. Sheesh next thing…
Well Blogger Pro is working for me now. Can’t wait to do some playing with it! Perhaps I’ll even setup a mail list so you can get my new posts emailed to you or something. I like the item title option as well. Now I can give some posts titles..cool. I need the spellcheck! I…
I downloaded the new beta for what they are now calling Windows Defender the other night. (Formally known as Microsoft Anti-Spyware) It’s definitely a clean interface, and it seems to run a bit quicker. A “quick-scan” of my laptop system only took 3 minutes. That seems faster than I remember most products quick scans taking….
For something like the 5th straight year, our summer intern showed up today, with no advanced notice given anyone in the IT Department (me), again! For an even extra-added bonus, this year he showed up two days before our Annual Meeting, which, of course, means that all of our extra equipment, and some not so…
In light of what I said earlier about marketing hitting the blog world, here’s some further reading: Chris has a much lengthier piece about weblogging as marketing tool. Doc and David Weinberger have put together an article called World of Ends about what the internet is, and how to stop mistaking it for what it…