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Power (outlets) to the people

Technology Evangelist notes this easily acceptable power outlet in a hotel room. Yeah! I recently had to choose between a light and a dead computer in a room in Nashville.
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2008 02 13 Comments (0)

Desktop Search Revisited

It’s been a while since I wrote about desktop search programs.
I had been using Copernic, but stopped using it when the free version no longer applied to non-home users. (We’re a non-profit, but we are a commercial user.)
I then switched to Google desktop search (GDS), which worked very well, with [...]

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2007 12 04 Technology Comments (1)

John Perry Barlow

John Perry Barlow was on Colbert the other night, trying to talk about copyright issues relating to Viacom’s actions to remove Colbert videos that were being used in a parody by MoveOn.org, posted on YouTube.
All that aside, in Barlow’s honor, here’s a link to one of his better songs, Cassidy. (lyrics, music)
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2007 03 29 Comments (0)

Pay to plug in?

Have you noticed the small crowd around the power outlets near the gates at most airports? What I see as a small community of people sharing a plug is a revenue opportunity for airports.
Technology Evangelist has a posting about the Smart Carte folks, who’ve built a system that will let aiports charge you $3 [...]

2007 02 19 Comments (1)

Technology and Good Eats

The Thermapen is an outright necessity for anyone cooking meat. This will let you deliver meat that is consistently right where want it to be. (Take beef off the heat at 125 and let it rest 15 minutes to hit medium rare, every time.) It’s expensive, but you won’t have to chow [...]

2006 10 07 Technology Comments (0)

Desktop Search (Cont’d)

As part of Office 2007 (Beta2TR), I’ve installed the latest beta of Windows Desktop Search. It seems to work reasonably well, but it can’t index network drives. We map “My Documents” out to a server, so Windows Desktop Search 3.0 Beta is more or less useless for anything other that acting as the search engine [...]

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2006 09 28 Tips Comments (0)

New Server

This blog has moved to a new server, from my desktop Windows system to a recycled Fedora Linux system. We had to to some tricky stuff at the firewall to keep from using another external IP, so if things get weird, let me know.
(update 26 Oct 2006: Now powered by Fedora Core 6.)
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2006 09 28 Comments (0)

Thanks to the Wordpress Community

This post on Symbol Engine provides a solution for my longstanding problem with the Admin Dashboard page in my Wordpress installation. THANKS!
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2006 07 07 Comments (0)

Dvorak on free municipal Wi-Fi

John Dvorak argues that market forces (”we on the market, so we’ll force you to do…”) will doom free the free municiapl WiFi services that are springing up around the country. Chicago is evaluating running its own. Dvoark assumes that a combination of telephone carriers, cable companies, and cell phone companies (oh, wait, [...]

2006 04 14 Comments (0)

BlogSpam

Until I put up this blog, I had no idea what blogspam was. Now, I get 15-20 “comments” posted each week to items on this blog. Usually, they’re a list porn sites or sites for erectile disfunction. (I guess you use the latter if the former doesn’t help.)
Thanks to the good people at Akismet, [...]

2006 03 07 Spam Comments (1)