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Long Haitus

It’s been a long time since I posted here. I’ve been working on my enterprise blog mostly and I’ve been slammed with work. There aren’t enough hours in the day to get everything done. On top of all that I am working on another Master’s degree, and I will then be starting my Ph.D. Anyway, [...]

Free VMware Player 3 now allows VM creation plus a lot more!

This just in from the VMware Communities site:
VMware has made several very significant enhancements to this product. Foremost, you will notice that we have finally added the ability to create Virtual Machines! Additionally, we have designed a new user interface including a library for you to access your recently used VMs. VMware Player now supports [...]

Sharp Objects: A Novel by Gillian Flynn- My mini review.

So in the midst of reading the Southern Vampire Series by Charlaine Harris, I picked up this book from Borders and decided to give it a shot. I mainly grabbed it because it looked short and I had some non-stop flights coming up that I figured it would be perfect for. Sitting in first class [...]

Opera Unite – a new way to share files directly from your web browser

Opera has just released Unite, a web server on the web browser. This is really cool! I am familiar with the Plain Old Webserver (POW) extension for Firefox which has been around for a long time. I’m curios to see how this matches up and/or extends that functionality.

With Opera 10, we are introducing a new [...]

Why California is broke…City of San Francisco leads the charge…

What one person found browsing an SF database of city employees…says a lot. Apparently math is not a strong point in the California education system.

Twilight Novel Chapter Commentary

I have decided not to post my chapter commentary here on this blog after all. I have setup a new blog – Twilighters’ Meadow – to post my Twilight related content. I’ll try to get an RSS feed to pop up in here every time I post on the other blog. The Twilighters’ Meadow feed [...]

Hacked NSLU2 – The 2 Watt Webserver

I probably should have posted about this earlier as I have actuall had this unit in ‘production’ for a month or so now, but since I will be soon decomissioning it, I wanted to make a record of it here.  The premise is that I took a Linksys NSLU2 (Details here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSLU2) and did a [...]

Caffeine Makes Us Go Round – The AerobieĀ® AeroPress(TM) Coffee & Espresso Maker

AerobieĀ® AeroPress(TM) Coffee & Espresso Maker
The demon finally broke down and found a way to make coffee for himself at work.  It is fascinating to me how difficult it can be to try and make coffee at work.  Unlike software engineering firms or the .com craze or the web 2.0 crowd, those of us [...]

Official Gmail Blog: Remote sign out and info to help you protect your Gmail account

Official Gmail Blog: Remote sign out and info to help you protect your Gmail account
Google has kind of enabled user access to activity logs for gmail accounts.  Basically that are allowing you to now see where you are logging in from in an Activity log in gmail as well as providing a small check-in [...]

Runescape now in High Detail!

You may remember my post on one of my favorite games to play a while back.  Runescape is an MMORPG that is free to play and runs in a browser (through Java.)  The only issue (if you consider this an issue) was that the graphics were pretty simplistic.  I play MMORPGs more for the community [...]