For reading later

Since we leave in the morning to visit Anglea’s grandfather down in Louisiana, and since that means I’ll be out of the office on Monday, and since today marks the first working day of the year, I probably should have thought about the fact that being gone on the second working day of the year…

Has anybody else using Windows Live Writer to post to their blog noticed occasional slowdowns? Like when it’s autosaving a draft, and you’re typing, the program doesn’t keep up with you, and then fills in behind with what you had been typing once it recovers? For someone like me, who doesn’t type real well, it…

Looks like the details for Gnomedex this year will be revealed sometime today. I’m interested to see when and where it’s going to be held, but in all honesty I have no plans on attending this year. I have other fish to fry, so to speak. Update: Looks like they’ve changed the “check back on..”…

Listening to In The Trenches while having lunch at my desk, I find myself intrigued greatly by Rob Whaley’s Admin to Admin segment on Uniform Server. I’ve been seriously thinking about trying to setup a web-server and seeing if I could get some sort of intranet put together as a place to post announcements or…

There’s nothing quite like the frantic, first thing in the morning call letting you know that “I turned it on and nothing happened!”. Of course the culprit, in this case, was a dead UPS battery, which is no surprise since some of these have been in use longer than I’ve been working here. (The hazards…