One of the more interesting, yet completely useful, pieces of equipment I took with me up to Cleveland the other day was something that my boss hacked together to serve as a portable projector stand. Basically, what he had done was take a piece of black plywood, and drilled a screw through it, that he…
Actually, I should title this how I spent late Saturday night, into Sunday morning, and then most of my Sunday. I started out trying to upgrade Movable Type on the Child Abuse site. It’s now running WordPress. Yes, the upgrade went that poorly. Having been through a few upgrades that didn’t go well with movable…
Rob Fahrni’s post wherein he lists one small complaint about Fusion reminded me that I’ve been meaning to write about my own, small, complaint. As much as I love Fusion, and I love being able to flip back and forth between OSX and Windows on my Macbook, I have discovered one area where, on a…
I was going over that RSS presentation I did a few weeks ago with someone who couldn’t make it to the event yesterday at lunch, and an interesting question came up. I talked about how I use delicious.com as my shared items because it lets me use various tags, and each tag then has it’s…
I mentioned this a while ago and have had some conversation about it on-line, but I’d really like to hear from fans of mind-mapping software. Doesn’t matter which software, any will do for this discussion. What I want to know is, what is it about mind-mapping that attracts you to doing it? Every time I…
Our CIO today decided to send the IT department the monthly statistics for our Postini spam filters. It’s been a few years since I worked in a place where I was the Postini Administrator, so I haven’t seen the percentages of mail that actually gets delivered in a while. It was around 30% at the…