Archive for May, 2006

Review: Digital Fortress

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006

I just finished reading the novel Digital Fortress by Dan Brown. With the recent release of the DaVinci Code, several of my co-workers have been re-reading Brown’s novels, and as I’d already read both The DaVinci Code and Angels and Demons, one of them loaned me a copy of his earlier novel. I […]

Del.icio.us

Monday, May 15th, 2006

For those who haven’t jumped on the social bookmarking bandwagon already, let me just extol some of it’s virtues for a bit. I started using del.icio.us several months ago, and it’s definitely been a handy tool.
First and foremost, del.icio.us solves the problem of having one set of bookmarks but three or four […]

Projects…

Friday, May 12th, 2006

It’s that time again: time for me to invest serious amounts of time upgrading and tweaking my website. Chances are good that no one (other than myself) will really care, but I suppose it’s a possibility. The current batch of projects:

Find out why the gallery isn’t working anymore.
Update the gallery software to v2
Update […]

Rental Ripoff

Thursday, May 4th, 2006

During my recent business trip, we decided to rent an SUV to help haul all the various computer paraphenalia. As the senior tech on the trip, I was responsible for acquiring said rental, which brings us to the crux of the post. Hertz has two options for purchasing fuel. The first option […]