It isn’t quite after midnight yet, but this is a special little message for my wife’s birthday on Sunday. This particular picture is the essence of what I feel about Angela. It’s a picture taken in a beautiful place, on our honeymoon. It shows her being happy, looking classy while also being playful, and looking…
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…
Yesterday I spent probably two hours discussing a change that we’re doing at work. In layman’s terms, one of our employees is moving into a newly created position with another entity that is a “partner” of ours. He’ll work for them, but still be our employee, work out of our offices and have an email…
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…
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…
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…