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…
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…
Here’s some pictures to show you what things around here are like today. It’s probably a good thing we both had today off work for President’s Day, there’s no way we would have made it. Especially not when you consider the one car that could handle the snow better is in the shop! Great timing!…