• Question about Google Reader

    Actually, it’s a question about the shared items RSS feed. I subscribed to Scoble’s Shared items in Bloglines the other day and discovered something odd. Instead of the title of each post showing as the title, the title of the original blog shows as the post title. That makes scanning the feed a lot harder…

  • Picture perfect

    The local newspaper announced the winners of their annual photo contest and I am very proud that out of 6000 entries, my wife was given honorable mention. Nice job Angela! They’ve run this contest for a few years now, and we generally enter it without much success. The whole process is sort of odd to…

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    Hosting issues

    Long-time readers of this blog know that I’ve had my share of issues with hosting companies over the years. That’s why yesterday morning I got a somewhat pleasant surprise. My current provider was doing some network maintenance over night, and, apparently, ran into some problems with the upstream provider in the process. Now, this was…

  • KBPublisher

    Saw this post over on Download Squad about an open-source knowledge base tool and thought, “wow, that would be an interesting tool for a small business or home business”. I think KBPublisher could have quite a few uses in that realm, don’t you? Unlimited Categories Glossary Terms Powerful WYSIWYG Instant Response Searching Add attachments Five different…

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    Random thoughts

    I haven’t had much motivation to put together any long posts about anything lately, but here are a few thoughts: The process of uploading pictures to Flickr has been interesting. On one hand I can certainly see where both the technology and my ability has improved from 2001-present day. Certainly, just in terms of tech,…

  • Coming soon!

    Yes, the Friends in Tech Christmas special, Lucky the Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Geeks, is coming! It’s now in production and is due to be released Dec. 18th. Stay tuned to the Friends in Tech site that day to get your geek-holiday fix. In the meantime, you can listen to the promo on…