Technology, Books and Other Neat StuffTechnology, Books and Other Neat Stuff - LiveJournal.comDaily Twitterings- July 4, 2008 15:50 Setting up a shiny new Yoggie Gatekeeper in an Express Card 16:41 Set up a swurl - sbisson.swurl.com 17:41 Four wood pigeons in a holly bush, ripping away at the flowers. 21:11 Writing a rant on the software industry's failure to support fractional licensing for utility computing for our IT Pro blog. 21:26 A sliver of sunset behid the cloud. Not really one for photography tonight. 21:55 Ordering one of these is.gdM4H for the SATA drives that are floating around... 22:14 Fourth of July...http://sbisson.livejournal.com/864836.html Useful gadget of the day- July 4, 2008 I've just ordered one of these beasties to use with any spare SATA drives that I come across. You just drop in a SATA drive (it works with both 3.5" and 2.5" drives), and the drive's ready to test, or you can use it to quickly extract the data you're looking for...Nice and cheap, too.It does make me think of more than one TV crime show, though. You could just see Sebastian Stark or Brenda Leigh Johnson sanctioning the use of one to get the data they need to put away the bad guys. And I'm sure...http://sbisson.livejournal.com/864697.html Shining Ripples- July 4, 2008 A beach photo for a summer day.Moss Landing, CaliforniaApril 2008http://sbisson.livejournal.com/864346.html Techblogging in other places- July 4, 2008 Here's another round-up of links to our blog over at IT Pro (now with a nice shiny redesign). We tend to put a couple of pieces up there a week, and if you want to read them as soon as they're published, it's also syndicated on LJ as itpro_sandm.Click on the titles to see the full posts, and please make any comments over there. Oh, and rate the posts too, please!Green if but for the licensesGetting IT folk to agree is like herding squirrels, but theres one thing we do seem to agree on, and...http://sbisson.livejournal.com/864023.html Daily Twitterings- July 3, 2008 13:45 Time for a dose of vanilla almond tea. Car booked in for service next week, and a handful of bills paid. 18:09 Just watched lightning narrowly miss an A340http://sbisson.livejournal.com/863809.html Sunset Spider Web- July 3, 2008 Spider web in the sunset.I was experimenting with exposures and manual focus, and I'm quite pleased with the result. The only post processing I've done here is a simple crop.Putney, LondonJuly 2008http://sbisson.livejournal.com/863620.html Evening Swift- July 3, 2008 Our street's summer visitors are back as usual, screaming their way across the summer sky. Up on the roof to catch a summer sunset, I caught one as it zipped past my lens.Putney, LondonJuly 2008http://sbisson.livejournal.com/863351.html Daily Twitterings- July 2, 2008 13:46 New issue of Web Designer is out - with my Live Mesh overview and my Google IO report. 20:30 Slightly fed up with sites that require http: whhen adding a URI to a profile page. How many man hours could be saved by a line of code 22:46 I keep forgetting how good Prefab Sprout were. "The Gunman (and other stories)" is a perfect pop album.http://sbisson.livejournal.com/863141.html Interesting Words- July 2, 2008 inamac wondered about the following user interests I have in my user profile.Ammonites: Fossils are wonderful things, and I used to have quite a collection of ammonites of all shapes and sizes. There's a beach just east of Watchet on the Somerset coast where you can walk on the shingle and pick up grey stones that are full of ammonite fossils - fossils of the mother-of-pearl that still glistens and glows in rainbow colours after all these millions of years. It's a beautiful place (with the...http://sbisson.livejournal.com/862746.html Daily Twitterings- July 1, 2008 10:39 Hmmm. The office server CMOS was not what I thought it should be. Reset the values. Now running chkdsk. Am not sysadmin! 10:41 Linkedin integration in Xobni is very useful... 12:20 Oh good grief. Another Wired UK Are we doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past 14:26 Grrr. Finance sites should stay up in working hours. Bad Waitrose! 16:01 Thank goodness for Skype when calling US conference calls...http://sbisson.livejournal.com/862671.html |