07.07.08
Non Technical Tech
I do not understand why there are non-technical people working in technical jobs. I work in the IT department for a non Technical company, but still feel that everyone working in our department should be very technical. That is not the case however.
Last week I witnessed one of my coworkers leaving a note for another one of my coworkers. It was written with pen on paper, dated, signed and taped to her monitor so she would receive it when she gets in. How is it, though, that this coworker, who is in a technical position, thinks of leaving a written note, versus sending an e-mail? That I do not understand
06.24.08
Mobile Browsing v2
Opera Mini is making a comeback on my blackberry, thanks to a little setting entitled “Mobile View”. Enabling this setting has sped up the Opera offering, and still renders graphics and other items better than the default Blackberry browser. Back to Opera, for now.
Mobile Browsing
I tried to commit to only using the Mini Opera Browser on this trip. I am giving up on testing Opera Mini on my blackberry because it is to slow. I will stick with Blackberry’s browser until Firefox Mobile is out.
01.28.08
New Year, New Resolution
One of my resolutions this year is to lose weight. That is always one of my resolutions. I usually have other resolutions that I do keep. This year is no different.
I have not been a steady blogger as of late. It is something I always plan on doing more of, but I just never quite get around to it. This year I have made a resolution to update my blog more frequently. I have come to a few realizations that have caused me to change a few things about this blog to make the resolution possible.
First, I have realized that I am interested in a great number of things. To compensate for my plethora of interests I have tried in the past to create separate blogs to post to. This however has usually led me to have space that is never updated and has left me feeling overwhelmed, to the point that none of my blogs get updated.
Next, because I am interested in so many topics, I have trouble separating each of my interests while keeping all of my writing on one site. For the last few years, using blogger has made this extremely difficult. As I have found out, word press handles categories a lot better than blogger does. Because of this I have, once again, moved my blog.
I have also worked hard to condense my categories into the most general aspects of my life. I am interested in a great many things, but I have worked to group those into the following containers:
- Entertainment: This category will house my interest in music, books, pop culture and anything else I find entertaining.
- Family and Friends: This category will be used for that which is most important in my life, my family and friends. Before being asked, yes…pets are family.
- Human Nature: This category will house my interest in the human condition.
- Improvement: This category is meant for my interest in constantly improving myself.
- Poker: This category will include my fascination to playing poker, mainly Texas Hold’em.
- Sports: This category will be used for my love of sports, watching and participating.
- Technology: This category will house my love for the field in which I work, technology.
Now all I have to do is categorize the last 275 uncategorized posts which I have imported from my blogger site which never had categories. This is a long manual process, but I am not allowing myself to be slowed further by forcing that process to be completed before posting.
With all of that said, I’ll hopefully be posting more frequently.
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01.04.08
Cloning Animals For Food
After more than six years of wrestling with the question of whether meat and milk from them are safe to eat, the Food and Drug Administration is expected to declare as early as next week that they are.
Think about it, McDonald’s will never run out of food. Just as long as they keep cloning Bessie, they can keep mass producing Big Macs.
“Most consumers do not find this appealing,” says Marguerite Copel, vice president of corporate communications at Dean Foods Co., one of the nation’s largest milk producers, which says it won’t sell any milk from cloned animals.
Downright disgusting is more like it. I am physically sick thinking of these cloning factory slaughterhouses, and hey, they don’t need to worry about PETA or ethical treatment either, because the clone was never supposed to be alive anyway.
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12.27.07
Hacked GMail Filters
WARNING: Google’s GMail security failure leaves my business sabotaged
Now my domain name was being held to ransom, and the hacker was taunting me. What I had spent more than a year building into a sound marketing plan had been severed at the knees.
As I said, the vulnerability has been fixed, however, if the filter already exists in your account, then e-mail could still be leaving your GMail account without your knowledge. Do yourself a favor and check your filters today.
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10.19.07
Email Post
This is a test. This is only a test. Had this been a real post, I may have actually written content that the reader would enjoy reading. Instead, I’m test sending this from my mobile gmail on my phone. Please feel free to continue on about the day in an orderly fashion. Thank you and have a wonderful day, even though the Indians could not clinch the World Series birth last night.
06.08.07
Guess That Location
It’s that simple, tell me what is missing from the Street View photo and win a prize. Leave your guess in the comments and I will notify you if you win.
03.23.07
Tech Toys
Yesterday, I saw an online ad for the new Blackberry 8800 and started thinking about trying that out next. But then I read that it didn’t have a camera. That may not be important for true business use, but then again it might. A coworker recently sent me a snapshot of the network rack they mounted in a remote office so that when my employee is there, he will know what he is looking at. This to me is a very efficient use of the camera phone feature that can be a great tool.
Of course, not all pictures taken can be considered “Business Efficient”. For example, if one day you happened to be in an elevator that had a mirrored ceiling, and you happened to be like me, you might take something like this:
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09.15.06
New Picasa 2.5
I’ve used Picasa ever since it first came out. A new version of Picasa has been released and it enables you to create a web album and automatically share photos. I had to play around and test it, so I created an album from the fishing trip we took the kids on recently:
