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Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…

  • Just what I have been looking for…a place to rest my bones around the farm

    I’m a first issue subscriber to Make Magazine, but I rarely look at their website.  Fortunately I happened to see this because I need a few benches around the farm.  This looks easy to make and fairly sturdy.  I may have found my labor day weekend project. MAKE: Blog: HOW TO – Make a Leopold…

  • The future of the factory

    This is a really interesting article about how a number of factors (outsourcing, innovation, rapid prototyping) are all going to change what it means to work in a factory in the future.  Sounds like all those blue collars are going to have to get some bleach. DigitAll Magazine

  • Funny FAQs

    Since I am in marketing, I have had to write a few FAQs in my day.  This site lists some FAQ’s taken from other sites that sound really funny when taken out of context…actually some of them sound funny even when you realize what the context is. Used FAQs

  • Upgrading the admin

    WHile I haven’t messed around with the external template of the site too much (because I have customized the default one a bit and forget how I did everything…) I did just install this wp-plugin to spiff up the admin pages.  Not something that you will see, but makes the back-end pages much nicer to…

  • New way to run the labs

    I just posted about the labs site I am running to try out some of the more interesting web2.0 tools that you can run yourself. Now I have found a way to stand them up without runing my main server environment and without wasting time trying to track down pre-req’s. Now that VMWare server is…

  • Ultra-ultra portable

    A new gadget has made it’s way into my gadget bag: the Thinkoutside Bluetooth Stowaway keyboard.  After some trial and error, I finally got it paired up with my T-mobile MDA (that thinks its a imate K-JAM).  The secret was insalling the 4.5 drivers and hitting the “Disable built-in HID drivers” button in the install.…

  • The sign of a strong/viable culture

    I was catching up on Microsoft news today and saw a few links to this post on a “training” video that Microsoft in the UK had made with the guys from the British version of the Office.  This has got to be one of the funiest (and most extensive) spoof videos I have seen in…

  • EVDO…awesome!

    I just got my Verizon EVDO line activated today and I now see what the buzz is all about.  With a 2 bar connection in my office I can get 152 kbps upstream (not all that good) and 2100 kbps downstream (that’s great).  I had one of the CDMA cards from Sprint a couple of…

  • The local paper gets it write (re: Tablets)

    The local Cincinnati paper is not what I would call leading edge when it comes to tech.  However they recently ran an article on how a local high school is using Tablet PCs.  My 7 year old daughter loves my tablet (Can I draw something?)…guess the next generation might finally benefit from these great devices. …