Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…

Stopped in on my way to work this morning to do my patriotic duty by voting.  Since we moved last fall after the election, I had to find the new polling place.  Wasn’t that hard, but I find it odd that I always end up having to vote in some of the strangest places.  In…

Since the weather this weekend was warmer than its likely to be in the next few months, I took the opportunity to cut some trails in our woods for walking and eventually to ride the horses on.  I was quite successful on Saturday and in only a couple hours had completed what I thought would…

I didn’t listen to the second half of the game (doesn’t it figure!), but the Cats pulled one out today and beat Georgia (for only the 11th time in 60 tries).  Way to go boys.  I haven’t been able to see many games this year, but it looks like the Cats are going bowling for…

I had some complaints about my old picture, so I updated it today.  The old one was supposed to look like a WSJ wood-cut, but never quite got there.  So in the new spirit of full disclosure around here I though a more realistic picture was in order.

I’m not sure whether this means OS’s are officially dead, or if it means they are important again. Whichever it means, I don’t think anyone saw this coming. Microsoft – Novell Announcement And reaction: Dana Gardner SunMink Tech Liberation

.!. I’ve written about another one of these before but this is a nice looking media converter that supports files up to 100 MB.  Not too useful for video, but picture and audio formats would work well on this. Zamzar – Free online file conversion

Google has done it again and released another killer app for the mobile platform.  This time it’s a small Java based app that will run on a variety of cell phones and provides an even better gmail experience that the mobile browser version (which is pretty good BTW).  I was able to get this installed…

.!. 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…