What I’m working on…

Creating an SNPP gateway for sending pager messages via SMTP. SNPP allows for longer messages than SMTP/SMS, and delivery is much faster. I’d love to find a sendmail mailer that used SNPP and a lookup table, but I’m settling for using a local mailhost, procmail, and formail to bounce mail sent to a specific email [...]

How not to speak like a business idiot

From http://presentationzen.blogs.com:
QUESTION: Your boss says the following to you:
“How can we repurpose our results-driven strategy for scalability and a maximization of best-practice, frictionless, future-proof alignment moving forward?”
How would you answer?
(A) “Excellent question, boss! Let me interface with my people off-line for cross-departmental buy-in and I will ping you later. By the way, that is [...]

New and Improved!

I’ve done some cleanup on the site. A few things you might notice:

I’ve moved the RSS feeds to the top of the site. RSS (really simple syndication) is a great way of syndicating content for use in an program called an RSS reader. With an RSS reader, you collect RSS feeds from a variety of [...]

Why didn’t I think of this before?

I’ve spent the past few months trying to get a handle on productivity. I tried going back to a paper planner and doing the Franklin Covey time management system, tried a system based on David Allen’s Getting Things Done system, unstructured notebooks, coveted moleskine notebooks, tried the Hipster PDA, and tried running everything through [...]

Clockin!

I was mistaken - my system actually has a 2.2 ghz CPU, not 2.4 like I thought. Doesn’t matter, I upped the clock speed on it, now it’s running at 2.5. Tonight I’m going to try and add the RAID card back in. With RAID 1, you can add a second drive and make a [...]