“Tech” collection
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March 9, 2007
Quick way to test if you need DST patch
Ok, you are running out of time!!! Literally! Thanks, Kris, for the comment on my previous post. Here is a site that you can just point your browser to in order to find out if you need to apply a patch for DST or not. It's really easy to do, trust me. Click here to test! If you are OK,…
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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…
Read more →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…
Read more →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…
Read more →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…
Read more →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…
Read more →February 11, 2007
First Post using Microsoft Word 2007 “Blogger†option
So it looks like Microsoft got with the times with Word 2007 and incorporated blogging in with their new offering. So, I'm testing out the posting first and then I will write some more details around this. Looks promising. More later! Here is an image:
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February 7, 2007
Windows Explorer Tip – “group by” helps with organization
There is a nice little toggle within Windows Explorer (not Internet Explorer, I'm talking about the way that you can look at your files on your hard drive) that allows you to "group" the files based on whatever field you select. I found it helpful when you are looking for a type of file or to group by the modified…
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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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Apple Front Row, Griffin AirclickUSB and Griffin Proxi – Triple Play
Back in mid-November, 2006, I wrote up how to get Apple's Front Row to work on older macs using a program and instructions outlined on AndrewEscobar.com. The only disadvantage to the "hack" was that it didn't magically have a remote control materialize out of the air after installation. The way that I left it on my previous post, I wanted…
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January 9, 2007
My MacWorld 2007 – SF Predictions
So, 5 minutes before the Steve Jobs' Keynote, here are my predictions: - iPhone (PodPhone is what I'm calling it) - Tablet Laptop - 802.11n - new airport extreme following the new protocols - iLife 2007 - Leopard announcement - coming Q1 - New iPod with Bluetooth built in That is it for now...I will post back with what Steve…
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January 6, 2007
WordPress updated to 2.06
So, I updated my blog to 2.06...didn't really notice anything that new or changed about it. According to wordpress.org, here is what has changed: We have a pretty important release available for everyone, it includes an important security fix and it’s recommended that everyone upgrade. This is the latest release in our stable 2.0 line, which we’ve committed to maintaining…
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