Post archive for ‘Personal’
How I listen to podcasts (and keep up)
I have had a number of discussions recently about podcasts and how I listen to them, or find the time to invest in listening to them. After these impromptu discussions, I realized that I may have not provided the complete answer to the question.
Signs of Spring!
YellowBushes
Originally uploaded by jeremysnyder
While I was walking the other day, I took this picture of some bushes that are along the drive here at work. I enjoyed seeing such vibrant colors so early in spring. Enjoy!
Cleveland Indians vs Oakland Athletics (April 13th)
Here are some pictures I took with my phone of our first trip this year to see the Indians play. It was a bitter cold day and we were watching a good part of the game as snow was falling. The Tribe was able to pull out a (7-1) win against the A’s [...]
Upgraded to WordPress 2.5
Followed the simple 3-step upgrade process at WordPress.org and had no problems getting it installed.
Twitter’n
Now that I have successfully moved to my new web hosting provider, I am ready to get back to blogging more regularly. The move was relatively easy, but took time to get everyone to play nicely and move the DNS records and get WordPress upgraded and all the old articles restored.
One of the first [...]
Google Reader
Every now and again you find (or get a recommendation for) a software
package that you discard becuase it does what some other software you
already have installed does. In this case, I was using TrillianPro
with the GoodNews RSS feed reading plugin… and I had passed on a
couple of recommendations to use Google Reader instead for [...]
Wiki: Day Two
One bump in the road, and it doesn’t appear there is an easy fix.
The Help:* files aren’t loaded by default with the default wiki.
Online I found three variations of solutions:
* Do an “export” of the pages (but need a formatted file of all the
page names)
* Edit/Copy the source of the important pages, and paste into
matching [...]
Synergy in Use
In the article on Synergy, I discussed how you could use it to control multiple computers using one keyboard and mouse. Here is a couple pictures of my setup, that uses Synergy and a KVM to access a total of 8 machines using one keyboard and mouse.
Wiki: Day One
Today the journey begins. Aaron and I have embarked on the journey
to test out MediaWiki for collaboration on a couple of GUI
projects… and see how it goes.
Wikis have been frowned upon in the past (here at work). However,
this is a tool that both of us have toyed with or used in a minor
capacity [...]
IE7.com
Here is a chuckle… visit: http://ie7.com/
You should get a single page with a big Firefox graphic, and link to
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/.
Interesting that it was registered back in Mar-1999.