March 9, 2007

Check your server DST settings using PERL
The new Daylight Saving Time is almost upon us. My company is losing money now on all of the IT updates that we have to do (but that is another story, in fact, I read today that some Economic Analysts now think that the change will not save energy/money because while people won't be using as much electricity in the…
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March 5, 2007

Tivo Product Management – Are you listening? Kidzone suggestion
Sometimes I wish that I could become a temporary Product Manager at a variety of different companies...only so that I can get features into products that I use. I have many years of various types of Product Management positions, but wouldn't it be great to be able to materialize in a company, spec out a product, work with the developers…
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March 2, 2007

TZedit, DST, and JVM – not happy together
Earlier I wrote about the change to the Daylight Saving Time and how it could cause lots of lost time and money for IT and Dev folks (potentially offsetting any savings through energy). Well, I now have first-hand experience of how things can go awry and end up costing. My company has a production environment that is running a combination…
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February 28, 2007

…and the lesson to be learned here is…
I'm taking a side-step from my usual "tech" posts to write about the "dad" side. This is a strange situation that I'm trying to understand. Here is the scene: my oldest daughter is invited to a birthday party with "Jenny" that has a start time of 5:30 and going to either 10:30pm or overnight (for a sleepover). Unfortunately, our daughter…
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February 28, 2007

New Theme for Netvibes – Coriander
The great Web2.0 company, NetVibes, that I have been using for some time now as my homepage for ALL of my computers has released a really great new theme called Coriander. It brings the look & feel to a more Web2.0 feel (e.g., rounded corners & "shiny colors") but also adds some nice functionality like the ability to resize your…
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February 27, 2007

New way to post…via Instant Messenger
I just found a great new way to post to my blog, via a service called IMified. This is my first post using this service. I will probably research it some more and then write a bit more information about how to use this service. This is handy if you are on the road or on a cell phone. More…
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February 23, 2007

Loving this new WP theme!
This is really a nicely designed theme. It has a series of built in Sidebar widgets, clean implementations of style guides and all sorts of nice eye candy. It also has built in paragraph classes for specific tags. The site is located here. It seems to have quite a following. I'm slowly starting to get some of my old customizations…
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February 22, 2007

WordPress Theme change in progress…
I found a great theme for my blog (as you can probably see if you aren't just reading the feed). So, I'm in the process of updating plugin and other items within it. Hang in there, beautification is in process!
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February 21, 2007

Change to Daylight Saving Time – the new Y2K?
Daylight Saving Time is changing this year, due to some decisions made in the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Beginning in 2007, Daylight Saving Time is one month and begins for most of the United States at: 2 a.m. on the Second Sunday in March to 2 a.m. on the First Sunday of November Daylight Saving is supposed to save…
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February 16, 2007

Our own “three wise monkeys”
The origins of the phrase "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" may not be truly known, the phrase, on the other hand is. Wikipedia has a small write-up of the expression and its various possible origins. On a trip to Lake Tahoe last year, my wife and I took the opportunity to have our own "monkeys" give…
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January 25, 2007

Blog updated to WordPress 2.1
You are now viewing my site on WP 2.1. It was a relatively painless upgrade (following the instructions on WordPress.org)...but I use the term "relatively" very loosly. When I first tried to run the upgrade script, I got an error (that I had seen before): Warning: main(/blahblahblah/wp-content/ advanced-cache.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /blahblahbla/wp-settings.php…
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January 24, 2007

New WordPress release (version 2.1) and other stuff
Once again, it's been a while since I posted. I've been deep in "geek-dom" mainly related to Cell Phone. My wife's old Blackberry (7100t) died so I got a Blackberry 8700c off of eBay and she is now up and running on that! It's a great device actually. My biggest issues was a little trick that I forgot to do…
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