The White “Ty” Affair

Hope everyone had a great holiday. We finished pulling nearly 10,000 feet of network cable through my Uncle’s new office building on Friday. My legs and feet were feeling it from climbing up and down the ladder countless times, but they’re back to normal now.

Now I get to punch down a few hundred keystones, telephone, and patch panel connections.

During an episode of net@night they talked about commoncraft.com It’s an interesting idea, they take concepts that might be difficult to explain to people and “explain it in plain english”.

(Take the example below, it answers the question I had, “what in the world do I do with somethig like Twitter”, which seems like such an odd service.)

I added links to my twitter, pownce, and facebook pages over in the sidebar.

The only thing I’ve been messing with much lately is twitter though…

Go click if you’re interested.

Installed Vista SP1 on the Macbook Pro tonight. Everything went perfectly smoothly, no problems with Boot Camp at all, and it seems to have fixed the one glaring problem I’ve had with Vista since it was released.

You can copy files at what seems to be a reasonable pace now. It doesn’t take several minutes just to “calculate time remaining” before it even starts copying.

I’m not sure if it was faster than it would have been copying at a command line, I’ll do some testing later and time some file copies, but it’s there’s no question that it has improved.

Mandi sent me a link to Improv Everywhere today…

I’m not sure what I’d think if I was sitting there eating in the food court and this happened:

However seeing it from an outsider’s perspective, I must say that it’s fabulously done.

Apparently Salt Lakc County Mayor wasn’t lofty enough. SuperDell is going to now run for Governor…

Good luck with that.

What’s funny is that he’s a Libertarian, which means that unless someone convinces me that there’s a better choice, I’ll probably end up voting for the nut.

Since I got my ipod touch, I’ve been listening to and watching all kinds of podcasts, both the video and audio varieties. Pretty much all of these are available in multiple formats, and can be played on any computer, ipod, portable media player, etc. They are easily listened to or watched just directly from their own webpages on your computer screen, or a media center, or whatever else you might have. You can subscribe with itunes, or any other podcatcher you might like, and they’re all free. (ad-supported, but they don’t seem to go overboard with ads.)

There’s so many out there that I’ve not come close to trying all of them, but I’ve checked out many of the big names, and here’s my favorites.

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Saw this on digg today… awesome.

Awareness Test

The post about the TrueCrypt update yesterday got me thinking about writing a quick article about it, why I use it, why I like it so much, and why I think people are crazy to not use it if they have anything on their computer that they wouldn’t want a thief to have access to if the computer was to be stolen.

You can read the article here. If you think I missed something that I should have mentioned, or just want to comment on your experience with the software, let me know.