Archive for February, 2010

Mercury Magazines and Zdnet

I received an email from ZDnet called “what’s new now,” it was an offer from Mercury Magazines for free subscriptions for up to three mainstream magazines. –Is it just me or does this already sound like those kids who come door to door selling magazines for a “good cause?”
At any rate I get all the [...]

Worried About Getting Fired For Breaking the Rules? – Move to Australia

An Australian man was justifiably sacked(fired) for repeated safety violations. But because of his lack of education and the unlikely prospect of his finding another job, the valid sacking was invalidated and the company was forced to rehire him with compensation.
www.theaustralian.com.au –The nation’s industrial umpire has ruled that a long-term employee who was legitimately sacked [...]

Billy Bob’s in Sam’s Town

Mystic Falls in the Sam’s Town Atrium
I went to Billy Bobs with a friend for steak last night, after a long absence, and was pleasantly surprised.
Sam’s Town just isn’t what it used to be, it’s mostly empty early on a Monday evening, and the atrium is less busy than the rest of the joint, but [...]

Creating a Favicon

I’m currently playing around with that little icon you see next to the url of a lot of websites.
To use this effect you need to create a favicon. This is generally a 16×16 pixel image must be saved as an ico not a jpg or png. The simplest -and free- solution is to use Windows [...]

Political Nevada Blog is Back

The Political Nevada blog is back online after more than a year sitting stagnant.
The author -who still publishes under the name “admin”- says he’s plans on publishing about once a week, and aspires to write like William F Buckley Jr. –Lot’s of luck with that.
The author’s latest, greatest, and only post, is in support of [...]

Pure-FTPD

On the recommendation of a friend I installed two free packages, Pure-ftpd and Pure-ftpd manager. –This combination gives you a point and click interface that makes managing your ftp server simple.
But before I go further you need to have installed Xcode tools. This gives you the gcc compiler you will need to compile the code.
If [...]

Mac Mini Server

I’ve been playing with my Mac mini server, but I haven’t had time to sit down and figure out where Apple hid everything in their fancy-schmancy gui. So I’ve invested a couple of reference books.
This book is by Peachpit publishing, part of their Apple Learning Series, and is well worth the $64.95 list – $52.96 [...]

Infinite Wisdom is Recruiting

David (wildwildeastdailies) is trying to recruit a partner/friend for his Infinite Wisdom Consulting business.
Here are the required “hard skills”:

Hard skills need to be meticulous and dependable analysis of financials for investment regarding Internet start-ups as well as diversified existing concerns, IPO introduction, marketing and consumer analysis for Global 500 Companies, emerging and frontier markets and [...]

F*ck You, Google

If you think that concerns over Google Buzz and privacy are over blown here are some excerpts from fugitivus via Gizmodo:
Fuck You, Google:
I can’t block these people, because I never made a Google profile or Buzz profile, due to privacy concerns (apparently and resoundingly founded!).
Fuck you, Google. My privacy concerns are not trite. They are [...]

Too Damn Many Social Networks = Too Little Privacy

“Privacy” is an illusion if you use social networks.
Google: Our friendly neighborhood NSA connection brings us these two:
Google Friend Connect says this:
Quickly turn your website or blog into a place where people meet and get to know each other with Google Friend Connect’s easy-to-use features.
Google Buzz, being pushed to businesses as an alternative to [...]

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