Author: Mike McBride

  • About last night

    Yes I got to spend most of my evening at work! On a Friday night, that rocks, doesn’t it? Turns out that late yesterday afternoon two different machines lost network connectivity suddenly. After a few checks of routine things, I eventually made my way to the wiring closet and noticed something wrong right away. In…

  • And another thing..

    Oh, by the way, there’s some stuff in Newsmonster that has some real promise. Both the integration with a PDA, and the Distributed Reputation System, which is not currently available, sound pretty interesting. I haven’t tried to integrate with the PDA, because that’s going to tie up some resources and disk space that I don’t…

  • Projects

    Last night’s projects, while staying up to watch the Islanders shutout the Sharks 3-0, (whoo hoo!) included downloading a copy of Newsmonster and upgrading the Red Hat 7.1 Workstation to 8.0. On the Red Hat front, I still haven’t found a solution to the network card problem on the server edition of Red Hat, but…

  • More good stuff

    Reading Ben Hammersley led me to the just released NewsMonster which is yet another news aggregator! I might have to give this one a try. It works with Mozilla and uses Java, so it will work in any OS, and it claims to render most major news sites, even if they don’t have an RSS…

  • He’s a coding fool..

    OK, good night’s sleep last night, mood much better, let’s get to blogging! 🙂 The coding fool I’m talking about, by the way is Josh, aka nf0. In the last few days he’s written a couple of really useful scripts, eBayTools, which lets you “take a list of items, search ebay, and create an RSS…