When I first read about G.ho.st the other day, the system admin part of me wondered if an on-line virtual computer could be the end of blocking IM, web-mail and social networking, because anyone with a little smarts could figure out to go to the VM, login, and use that to “browse” to all the…
If I learn nothing else at this new job, I will absolutely become a master at audio/visual stuff. Today, I spent the vast majority of the day converting two videos from the camera into .wmv files, editing both of them to get rid of unnecessary junk and change the order of clips using Windows Movie…
I found this service, Twitterfeed, yesterday and got it set-up last night. Now, it will automatically post a tweet to my Twitter account whenever I post something new to either of my blogs. So, here’s yet another way to keep track of when I’m posting something new to the site, as well as just keeping…
I’ve got an evaluation copy of Gsyncit running on my laptop right now. It’s a tool that easily syncs your Outlook calendar with your Google Calendar. You can use the evaluation edition for as long as you like, but that means putting up with a nag screen that takes about 15 seconds when you open…
I like the mobile web interface, but why does the Twitter Mobile make me login every day? Am I the only one who’s not remembered when I go back to the site? Tags: Twitter, Mobile
On the latest In the Trenches, Kevin was talking about using checklists, especially when working on a number of machines at once. This weekend was a perfect example of another good reason to have checklists. We were rolling out software upgrades by rolling out a new desktop image to about 120 desktops. This, unfortunately, required…