admin on April 17th, 2008

 Below are a few recent web finds related to personal finance and decluttering that I thought I would share: Extreme Savers Share Their Secrets – Yahoo! Finance Extreme Savers describes a number of cost savings measures including saving on retail purchases by getting price adjustments, swapping durable goods, auto savings, phone service and travel. Building [...]

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admin on April 14th, 2008

  I was reviewing some of my RSS feeds this weekend and came across a timely article by Kelly Forrister at Simply GTD that discusses the topic of “Dealing with Disruptions.” I have been having a number of conversations lately on this topic since the IT world is wrought with disruptions, emergencies, and burning issues. [...]

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admin on April 13th, 2008

  Over the past couple days I have been considering a number of technologies that enhance my productivity and while a couple come to mind (which I will likely share in future blog posts) there is one that I hadn’t considered much in the past, probably due to its simplicity. Among the tools I use [...]

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admin on April 6th, 2008

 After a number of rough days at work I have completed the migration to my new site. Although I had a number of additional pages I decided to archive the old site using HTTrack to archive my old site and move forward with my new site in the current format. With the new focus on [...]

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admin on March 31st, 2008

In a recent hacking contest at CanSecWest that pit Microsoft, Mac and Linux against each other in a head-to-head hackathon the last surviving system was fully patched Ubuntu system. The first system to fall was the Mac, which succumb to an exploit in Safari on the second day of the three day competition. Vista was [...]

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