Category Archives: News

On vacation

I’m on vacation for 1.5 days. Back to the states this Saturday. Probably back to blogging at a more positive level as well. I’m done with the negative part of things. Much easier to say now when sitting in a … Continue reading

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New Vmware Player

I’m a dedicated Virtualbox kinda guy so when I read the press around VMware Player 3.0, had to give it a try. Its a marked change from earlier ones in that you can create new guests without workstation installed at … Continue reading

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Information Repo's on the Go

You all know the scheme. You are busy professionals on the go. Always having not quite enough time to read, scan, or see the latest news. I’ve been using this rather nice web service along with my Android phone to … Continue reading

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The Nokia Pudgy Phoneroo

This looks kinda cool. It runs Maemo and it crosses a few limitations that the earlier N97 had. I just pre-ordered one on Amazon. We’ll see when anythingbutipod has a review of it It comes with 32gb of memory and … Continue reading

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Why use Android Devices over Closed Silos

Here is a great reason to move toward android devices and away from others. Its the framework idea. Basically, as Cyanogen states, “respect the framework” and build enabling tools that exemplify that framework; but respect the hard work and property … Continue reading

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Weekend Scenarios

I always approach the weekends with a great deal of appreciation. I enjoy the work weeks immensely these days; perhaps even more than the Visa days. I’ve always felt good when there is some “need” and I can help fulfill … Continue reading

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Three Years Later…

Its been three years with the content now for this place. I started the weblog over on the hosted wordpress and then moved things around a few times. I’ve used Drupal here and then moved back and forward and sideways. … Continue reading

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Calendaring, Contacts, Todos and Notes

The holy grail it seems of being connected is being able to see your calendar in any permutation, in any place, and using any client. I guess that this is important when you are a traveling dude or dudette. You … Continue reading

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An almost Howto – IMAP on the Cheap

I have this goal to learn how to make things work in Linux-land.  I assign myself a “project” and then go off and read about it, learn it, and try to solve it.  Last night and today, I set two … Continue reading

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Final Intel Pentium 4 went bye

Big occasion!! I was able to retire my final desktop P4 system and now have AMD64 upper end systems on my desktops. I’m running either Ubuntu 7.10 or Debian Lenny and things are pretty good. I tried to get Mepis … Continue reading

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