Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…

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…

Alhough it’s not open to the public, I have started up a little “labs” site behind the fireweall to enable me to try out some of the more interesting open source and web 2.0 applications that I run across now and again. Here’s what I’m looking at in the labs right now: Zimbra Tribox MediaWiki…

A post over on JK on the run got me to wondering what my traffic is on this site, especially since I went to a .org domain name from the tzo subdomain I was using before. Here’s what webalizer tells me: While I would have predicted a jump…going from 500 to  20,000 hits per month…

Yesterday I had to take a quick day trip to Chicago for a sales meeting with a partner.  Since the meeting was downtown and I was arriving and deprating during rushhour, I decided to take the train from O’Hare to the meeting.  I have taken the train several times and it is always very relable…

On a tip from Chris Pirillo’s blog, I downloaded the Windows Live Writer (Beta) and am writing up this post from the new tool.  The install was very easy. I double clicked the install MSI, pointed it at my blog URL, supplied my username and password and that was it. I continue to try to…

I updated my PSP over the weekend to v2.80 of the firmware.  I had heard they added video casting support, but couldn’t find any documentation about the formats that were supported.  After searching around a bit, I decided to just try a few feeds, and sure enough Sony seems to support the iPod video RSS…