I enjoy good conversation and a good beer or two... "Beer is far more than a drink, it is a token that a man can move his limbs and stretch in safety."
- Erich Remarque
I was looking into getting remote desktop access to some of the Macs I manage. The reason? As a lazy (in a good way) sysadmin, I didn’t want to keep going down to my lab to update the Macs when security patches came out. I wanted something that came with the box, [...]
La Blogothèque has an awesome collection of live, impromptu video performances of well-known indie bands. Their Take Away Shows feature bands performing on street corners, in front of cafes, in courtyards and in apartments. It’s as if La Blogothèque’s crew grabbed the bands from backstage and took them busking. Judging from some [...]
I run as a limited user on my XP machines, and Firefox 2.0.0.4 doesn’t like this. Even after I install/upgrade Firefox as an admin user, I get “One or more files could not be updated…” each time I run Firefox as my regular user.
Josh Flanagan has a fix for this. I hope the [...]
This is an interesting Google video presentation on Connexions that talks about stove piping and dis-integration that prevents collaboration in education. For anyone who has spent over $150 on a textbook, it is revolutionary, and had me saying “a-ha” almost immediately. Folks have been doing this in Web 2.0 for a while, and [...]
I’m really enjoying reading Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton. De Botton presents the causes of and solutions to the anxiety inevitably caused by comparing ourselves with our peers. The whole concept is very interesting, and it rings true; check out the Wikipedia article for a precis. I highly [...]
Here are a couple new(er) arrivals to accompany my earlier review of portable cooking systems.
First is a how-to for building a soda-can stove. This concept has been around for a while, and it is widely used by travellers and ultra-light hikers. An ingenious concept - MacGuyver to max.
Next, the wood-gas stove is a concept similar [...]