Apple: good company, compelling technology, horrible coffee. LDAP: Basis of distributed OpenDirectory setups, difficult to understand, even more difficult to navigate using commandline tools. Use LDapper instead. Powerbooks: worth their weight in gold. Steve Jobs must love that Apple logo,…
I’m on travel this week in Reston, VA attending an Apple OpenDirectory training course. My job description doesn’t call for much travel and so this has been an adventure of sorts. I picked up my rental car from Avis yesterday…
It has been a long time since I let a weekend lapse without a post. Generally, I like to try to get at least one post in over the course of a weekend, even if said post is of mere…
Of all the things I wanted to wake up to this morning, CNN.com declaring in the largest letters possible 54 DEAD IN MISSISSIPPI Levee Breached in New Orleans wasn’t one of them. I’m sure that number will rise, as these…
Well, if you hadn’t noticed, the site was down for most of the day today. The short answer is that my hosting company dropped the ball. The long, technical answer is that the mysql daemon on the box that hosts…
As previously mentioned, my fantasy football draft was last night. I think I came out of the deal in fairly good shape, particularly since I did zero preparation. It’s a 12 team league and we had 16 rounds of selections,…
419 scammers, in an effort to be taken seriously, have taken to sending messages that, while still stilted in their composition, actually tend to spell things correctly. However, their choices of nomenclature can result in some unintentional hilarity. To wit:…
Looks like Google included an Easter Egg in its release of Google Talk: Hunt the Wumpus. Now that’s an Easter Egg done right.
That’s it. It’s time for a “Browser Brain Dump,” folks. I’ve had a huge number of tabs sitting open in my browser as of late, with all sorts of information ephemera taking up valuable virtual memory. Thus, in the interest…
“Headline: Mariah Carey plans yacht arrival at MTV Awards during hurricane. Karnac: Name three things that really blow.” Heh. I miss Johnny Carson… (Link.)
