Author Archives: mike

Zotero, a research extension for Firefox

I stumbled upon an amazing research tool toady while I was searching for a download management Firefox extension today.  Zotero is more than just a download tool.  It is a literary reasearch tool which allows you to track web citations, bookmarks, and the like from within the browser.  I would traditionally create a Bookmark folder [...] Continue reading

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25 Biggest Landscaping Mistakes

Gardening : Landscaping / Design : 25 Biggest Landscaping Mistakes : Home & Garden Television I viewed a exceptional back-to-basics gardening show on HGTV called 25 Biggest Landscape Mistakes.  This was a really good refresher for getting back into the … Continue reading

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Crape Myrtle Research

Gardening Season is finally here again! We have four Crape Myrtles in our backyard that I am very carefully raising from saplings.  When I planted them, I visualized a formal party, around Christmas  time with clear white lights in them, … Continue reading

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GrandCentral

I’ve added a GrandCentral button over on the right hand side to leave me a voicemail with any suggestions / complaints / praise you may have for the site. Also, please leave me a message if you are a sys admin interested in starting an IT podcast. It is completely up in [...] Continue reading

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Is this the big one?

For several years, a dark cloud has hung over the US open source community. Mostly triggered by the “SCO v. Everybody cases”, this cloud is the fear that some manner of patent could bring down open source projects, such as the kernel itself.
Two days ago, Red Hat, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the [...] Continue reading

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Bluebonnets

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Hardy Heron Beta Testing

I am testing the Hardy Heron beta right now. I’ll spare a recap of the features that everyone else is talking about and delve into a UI change that I noticed right away. Instead of having a million boxes all over your screen when you are deleting, copying , and moving files, [...] Continue reading

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My Idea For How to Improve Ubuntu

For those not aware, Canonical now has a voting system setup for submitting your own ideas on how to improve Ubuntu, called Ubuntu Brainstorm. This is similar to the Dell IdeaStorm site that established Ubuntu as a distribution that Dell Computer needed to include purchase options for. Anyway, I have submitted an idea [...] Continue reading

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Happy Spring!

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Photography Integration

I finally managed to integrate Plogger with WordPress with the help of this article:  http://www.livingos.com/2007/02/26/integrating-plogger-into-wordpress/ The instructions were a year old and some of them were not correct (mainly, the whole deal about Plogger and WordPress sharing a database). Over … Continue reading

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