Stories

Our teams have been working on some meeting and event planning systems lately that are deployed for multiple global events spanning many time zones. So having quality time zone information and meeting scheduling accuracy is very important. I have researched and came across several interesting links: Time Zone Event Planner - Compare Multiple Time Zones ...

I started getting more traffic to my blog lately and with that came a bunch of SPAM. I dealt with for about a month than I began searching for a solution. Of course the Wordpress Plugin directory is where to go. I cam across the highly rated Wordpress WP-SpamFree plugin. I highly recommend it, it took care of my SPAM issues and so far I've only seen a handful of real comments.

I am always impressed with where you can take Wordpress as a web site management tool. It goes well beyond just being a blogging platform or even a simple content management system. With the Plugin directory a site owner can take it a long way. There are tho...

I really like ideas. I have them all the time. I work all the time to organize, prioritize, share and collaborate on my ideas. I love hearing other people's ideas on things. I was just browsing around the wordpress web site and came across their idea sec...

I was following Lifehackers best windows task manager vote, and they named process explorer as the best. So I downloaded to check out. I like it.... It gives you all the information on what is running on your windows machine. It fills in the gaps and gives me what I've...

People are always talking about putting your faith into the cloud. I am definitely worried about putting all my data online, and think about the repercussions of it. Now that Amazon Web Services have been around a while, my Amazon S3 storage account has become a central utility in my personal and business life. It is the central storage for all personal images, files, and video. I depend on it for business file and backup storage. I store everything from images to server machine image...

I was just playing with a "cross FTP" tool that allows you to setup your FTP and Amazon S3 connections side by side in the same client. I do a lot of FTP'ing as well as moving data to Amazon S3. Interesting concept....will play with more and see if it can become a regularly used tool in my toolbox. Check it out at CrossFTP.

I had two ideas for stories that some day I would like to write. I generally start a new Google Doc and flush out the beginning of story or production that I would like to flush out more and eventually do something with. My products can range from blog posts to actual books I want to write. Who knows if I'll ever do anything with them, but I like recording them. I have ideas, thoughts and stories in my Google Docs going back a couple years from now. It is quick and easy for me...

Since 2006 I have been gathering a top headline from the top 20 newspapers in the country. I pull these headlines using RSS feeds programatically every morning at 8:30 AM pacific time. I then assemble these into a sort of poem for that day. I was redoing my site a year or so ago and got to busy and never put back up. Kaia was bugging me to get her web site up tonight, and it only took me ...

As I was browsing Bug Labs listing of little programmable gadgets I was getting all excited and immediately wanted to share with my other geeky friends on Facebook. So I started looking around for a share button....nothing. It is common to see all the common share buttons on blogs these days. Anywhere there is news and blogs you see the share options. You just don't see them for products yet. Definitely something business owners should do to ensure the viral growth of ...

I was just reading ReadWriteWebs post on City of Portland, Oregon Officially Backs Open, Structured Data. As a data professional and politically minded individual I feel this is a huge step. Especially since it is in my home state. I firmly believe that transparency and sharing of data by city, state and federal government is true democracy. It puts the data into the hands of...

I was just checking out BUG Labs do it yourself DIY gadgets. They have created a sweet array of little open source programmable gadgets. For those of us who spent our youths taking apart stereos, tvs and anything that plugged in when we were little....these are cool.