Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…

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…

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.…

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…

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 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. …

Since it was a pretty nice weekend around here, I got to catch up on a lot of tractor chores around the farm.  That also means I got to catch-up on a lot of podcasts that have been sitting on my nano for a few weeks.  Probably one of the best ( and maybe one…

Had to run the FLying J today to get some propane for the grill so I went ahead and filled up a bit earlier than I needed to.  I had 547.5 on the trip odo and had to put 11.959 gallons in for a 45.8 MPG.  Still very impressive.  Guess the AC really dropped it…

So my quick run through webalizer yesterday made me realize that my site is getting some (more) serious traffic (than before at least).  I ran across an announcement for Google Analytics and went ahead and signed up.  What is really nice is that there is already a WP plugin that quickly integrates the code necessary…