Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…

.!. From the sorceress and Gandalf the Gray.

I have been playing around with the free version of SocialText on my home webserver for a few weeks and I have to say it is the way to go in a corporate environment.  My problem to this point has been how to convince anyone in corporate IT to actually set-up a server (virtual or…

I got this in last week, but was having some problems so I didn’t post until I had everything worked out. The “this” I’m talking about is a BatteryGeek external battery for my HP TC4400. I had been looking at the extra-long life batteries that connected directly to the tablet, but decided that since it…

.!. First day of work after the time change and I remember now why I hate it so much. Coming to work in the day light is OK, but going home in the dark absolutely sucks. I guess there is some good news though on the horizon through: DST begins almost 3 weeks earlier next…

I went to see another Bengal’s game this weekend. I didn’t ask John to go with me as I was afraid he might kill himself on the stairs. To be honest the real reason was I actually got DeAnna to come with me. I’m not sure if that’s because I was going or because one…

As I mentioned in a previous post, I just got a new very simple (i.e. cheap) digital video camera, the Creative DiviCam 428.  It’s not sold in the states, so I contacted a friend of mine who lives in Japan and asked him if he could pick one up for me.  As luck would have…

As you will have noticed already if you are reading my page in a browser (and not through an aggregator) I have added a few AdSense ads to my blog.  This is less to make any money, but more to see how the model actually works.  I don’t get enough traffic to do much more…