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I was a little surprised that someone I talked to last night hadn't heard of this amazing service, and even more surprised that I hadn't blogged about this before. If you have a router at home - and surely most of my audience does - you need to
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As I was walking around the local Geranium Festival at the weekend (they completely shut down the center of our sleepy little town for a bunch of vendors to set up stalls) I came across a guy doing caricatures . We've had them done for the kids a
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From wikipedia : A jobsworth is a person who uses his or her job description in a deliberately obstructive way, "a minor factotum whose only status comes from enforcing otherwise petty regulations". The term comes from the phrase "I can't
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As I find them.. Gmail: I've seen 20-30 good emails caught in spam, so check it often while you train it. Since I don't want to check the same message twice, I mark the spam as read whenever I check it. Then, to check just the unread spam you
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Dan asked me to post an update as I explore deeper into the Google forest. I'm now fully committed to Gmail and Google Calendar (why isn't it GCalendar?) and Outlook is now purely an evil tolerated for work purposes only. And with Rob Howard's
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Not my real family - "the Telligent family reunion" was how Joe Morel described our recent get-together in Dallas. Ado shows you the fun side of working for Telligent in the latest video - your truly appears at 4:13, 5:55 and 6:34. w00t! P.S.
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It's happened again; Seth posts about something that just happened to me . If it were really a security issue, they'd have to enforce it completely. If it's just a silly policy that someone dreamed up one day, it's sure to annoy people.
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" Three kids at 6:30 AM = utter chaos. " Pah. I'll take your 6:30 AM and raise you 30 minutes. Plus, it's the first day of school, a new school (literally), and my youngest's Birthday. Up, Wash, Dress, Breakfast, Presents. On the bus at 7 AM... .. ...but,
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I played with Flickr a long time ago, but never really used it until last night/this morning. I've been doing another round of building/testing the Community Server MSI in the last 24 hours and building/uninstalling takes a while. I've been using those
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Yesterday longtime GRRA Foster Mom Jill brought around two 8 week old puppies for us to look at and introduce to our Aussie Cody. We instantly loved the girl called Fallon (now Maggie). She's settling in well and her first night went very well. I only
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In the spirit of GTD I have to do a brain dump here every so often. There are a lot of small bloggable items that aren't worth blogging seperately. Here they are: Many of the Community Server (CS) team had fun at the weekend, myself ncluded, writing CS
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On Saturday we submitted an application to adopt a Golden Retreiver from the Golden Retreiver Rescue of Atlanta (GRRA). Our Australian Shepherd Cody would like someone to play with (at least we hope so!) I was very surprised in the first place that anyone
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I imagine most families have Holiday Traditions. Here are some of ours: We don't see anyone on Christmas Day. We live thousands of miles from Grandparents anyway, but Christmas Day is now traditionally pajama day. Getting dressed is banned. No-one allowed
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Technically I've missed it already, but at 11am local time I'll still be thinking of my Grandad. He served in France driving those funny-shaped tanks . I miss him. November 11th at 11am (GMT) World War 1 ended. In the UK it's a big event with two minutes
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Some very interesting articles came onto my screen over the last few days: Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far For card-carrying Geeks only, this article is worth reading on two counts: 1. because Mark is damn impressive and 2. Sony
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