Deprivation!
It looks like President-Elect Obama will have to give up his Blackberry when he drops the -Elect. Ouch! I sympathize!
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Blogrush Shutting Down
Since I blogged about Blogrush before and found it a fairly marginal service, I should note that it is now shutting down.
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Create favicon.ico with GIMP
This link is very helpful.
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IT Folks Make Errors? No!!
I love TechRepublic’s 10 Things posts, and 10 dumb things IT pros do that can mess up their networks is a great one. It’s fun to tell those user stories, but most of us have dumb moment stories of our own. Point #1, however, is critical. We all know it. You have to have backups,…
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I Usually Forget to Update Twitter
. . . but it looks like it’s becoming more and more important. According to this MSNBC.com story, it has become much more of a factor in the way people communicate generally and about the election. I can certainly see how it (and things like it) have become more important than chat rooms for example….
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McCain and Obama on Tech Issues
I’ve written a great deal about the reasons for my choices in the election this year over on my Threads blog, but I’ve largely viewed technology as a wash. Today Jason Hiner of TechRepublic rates the candidates, though he emphasizes that this is not an endorsement. He lists five critical issues, net neutrality, broadband development,…
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Added to my Managed List
Tom Durst is a friend of mine who lives in Washington state and has written a number of helpful essays on faith and spirituality. Some of his essays were hosted on biblepacesetter.org which will no longer exist after the end of the year. I have designed a new site for him and am now managing…
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Edit a File While Reading it with -more- or -less-
The tip is at nixCraft.
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Vista Robocopy for Backup
TechRepublic has an excellent video, and a text article. I have been slow in moving toward Vista, but I now have a few installations to deal with. The basis of this video and article is that often one wants to have extra backups of certain critical files. I do this because quite frequently I want…
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Best New Gadgets
. . . according to TechRepublic’s Jason Hiner.