17
Dec 07

Running and Reading


25
Oct 07

String Theory In Two Minutes


27
Jul 07

First, stop sucking

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 below, it’s definitely worth a look.


19
Jul 07

Phonetic Alphabet Cheat Sheet

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: k, 005V345

Tech: Thank you, I have that as 005B345

Me: No, that’s V as in Victor not B as in Bravo

Now I keep this next to the phone so I don’t have to think of a word that clearly begins with V.

phonetic preview

Phonetic Alphabet Cheat Sheet: Download (PDF)

Source: NATO phonetic alphabet – Wikipedia


11
May 07

Command Line Beauty

This is so geek beautiful :) (originally from this Lifehacker article)

ubuntu screenshot


10
Mar 07

Companies and open source

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 or Firefox? Do you think they should?


01
Feb 07

Rant: LiveJournal doesn’t lend to your credibility

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 the credibility to BitTorrent.

BitTorrent is an awesome protocol and works really well. It has made moving large files like video podcasts around the internet much less painful.

What I don’t understand is why its so hard for Bram to use his own domain and install some blogging software so his posts come from a more credible source than LiveJournal.

[tags]rants, bittorrent, livejournal, mark cuban, bram cohen, technology[/tags]


16
Jan 07

Wordpress Roundup

[tags]wordpress[/tags]


22
Dec 06

Speed up your Podcasts

I listen to quite a few podcasts, probably a good five hours worth a week. Here’s how I save time doing that:

1. Open Windows Media Player

2. Enable the Speed Up Enhancement in Windows Media Player
Speed up 1

3. Play your file

4. Crank it up

Speed Up 2

I can listen to all my podcasts at 1.4 or 1.5 except Security Now with Steve Gibson and Leo Leporte, Steve talks a mile a minute and they really shove a lot of good content into their podcast.

[tags]lifehacks, security now, podcasts, speed up, windows media player, media player[/tags]


15
Dec 06

Folding @ Home

Folding@Home

Remember SETI@Home? Are you still running that?

Folding@Home studies how proteins fold and more importantly, why they fold improperly and cause cancer. Don’t you think this is a better use of your computer?

It uses your spare CPU so you’ll see your CPU at 100% all the time but it yields to all other applications so you will never notice that its running. Think of it as using your whole computer all the time instead of just sucking power while running the Flying Windows screensaver.

You can find the windows installer on the Folding@Home installer, If you’d like you can join our team using the team number 50606.

[tags]folding, home, folding@home, cancer, research[/tags]