http://www.lolindrath.com Another joe, in the trenches, trying to Get Things Done Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:37:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.lolindrath.com/2008/01/07/motivation-and-excuses/ http://www.lolindrath.com/2007/12/17/running-and-reading/ http://www.lolindrath.com/2007/10/25/string-theory-in-two-minutes/ Here's a great Google Tech Talk by Merlin Mann. The best bit of advice he gives is to "First, stop sucking". You have to stop whatever bad habits you're doing (like ignoring the 500 emails in your inbox) before you can get better at it. The whole talk is ... http://www.lolindrath.com/2007/07/27/first-stop-sucking/ Below is a quick cheat sheet I made up to help out when I was on the phone with people. Inevitably you have to either read off an account number or spell out some weird URL and run into a conversation like this: Tech Support: Please read off your account number Me: ... http://www.lolindrath.com/2007/07/19/phonetic-alphabet-cheat-sheet/ I knew the little bastards were up to something in my attic! squirrels with lightsabers Originally uploaded by rylanddotnet http://www.lolindrath.com/2007/05/31/squirrels-with-lightsabers/ This is so geek beautiful :) (originally from this Lifehacker article) http://www.lolindrath.com/2007/05/11/command-line-beauty/ The company I work for makes is submit for review all FOSS/Open source software we use. As far as I know they don't actually donate any money to them, its just a software license review. How does your company handle this? Do you donate money or time if you use putty ... http://www.lolindrath.com/2007/03/10/companies-and-open-source/ Mark Cuban predicted the death of BitTorrent and and the creator, Bram Cohen, responded yesterday on his LiveJournal blog. LiveJournal?!?!?! Oh come on, using a service full of 13 year old girls having their hearts broken by boys that didn't know they had crushes on them doesn't exactly lend the ... http://www.lolindrath.com/2007/02/01/rant-livejournal-doesnt-mean-credibility/ Wordpress 2.0.7 Released - a few bug and security fixes How to Tag and Categorize Your Content - you should only have a handful of categories, but lots of tags Wordpress Post-install Checklist - Step-by-step things you must do after a new installation (I don't agree with turning off the visual editor ... http://www.lolindrath.com/2007/01/16/wordpress-roundup/