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- Category: cool stuff that doesn't cost much
- cars: Acura RSX-S
- food: bread dipping spices
- food: Soy Vay teriyaki sauce
- toy: Lego Highway Haulers
- telecom: Virgin Mobile cell service
- entertainment: Tivo with antenna
- telecom: cordless phone
- tech: screen protectors
- food: do you like to cook?
- travel: Fat Tire Bike Tours
- tech: finally, a good battery tester
- mosquito bites: getting rid of the itch
- entertainment: full-length episodes of "Car Talk" now online!
- cars: discounts on authorized parts from the dealer
- cars: purchasing tires
- tech: do you want to help set a Guiness World Record?
- entertainment: good earbuds at a great price
- entertainment: HD Tivo
- fun: recipe for cinnamon rolls
- fun: classic Looney Tunes on iTunes for $2
- yelp
- tech: free IBM WebSphere Application Server (J2EE server) for developers
- tech + fun: hack your Canon digital camera
- life: deer hunting with an Acura
- stuff: a decent vacuum cleaner
- fun: traffic signs
- Category: entertainment
- entertainment: Expectations
- movie: Little Manhattan
- entertainment: Tivo with antenna
- fun: Father's Day gifts
- entertainment: full-length episodes of "Car Talk" now online!
- fun: the fragile e-commerce web site
- fun: how a techie would approach...
- fun: Airbus A380 cockpit
- fun: home design
- entertainment: good earbuds at a great price
- entertainment: HD Tivo
- fun: birthday gift
- fun: classic Looney Tunes on iTunes for $2
- fun: my favorite song
- yelp
- Fancy Fast Food
- Category: life tips
- life: Forgiveness
- tips: the "newspaper" test for decision making
- food: do you like to cook?
- cars: replacing the dash lights in a Honda Odyssey
- tech: the holiday present that gives back
- personal finance: credit bureau freeze
- fun: recipe for cinnamon rolls
- Confessions of a LASIK patient
- life: advice for the new father
- fun: family pics
- life: technology and happiness
- fun: quotes
- life: deer hunting with an Acura
- life: extending the life of a household water heater
- Category: tech tips
- web content debugger: Firebug
- tools: core Firefox plug-ins
- tech: screen protectors
- tech: XSLT book
- tools: curl
- tech: upgrading hard drives without spending a fortune on software tools
- tools: demo helpers
- tech: Akismet spam filter for WordPress
- tips: the "newspaper" test for decision making
- tech: using an LCD projector with your laptop
- tech: how to avoid clobbering your VoIP traffic with your PC
- tech: the holiday present that gives back
- tech: base64 encoding tools
- tech: comparing the popularity of programming languages
- tech: go Blu-ray! Uh, hold on a sec...
- tech: the security and privacy mindset
- tech: do you want to help set a Guiness World Record?
- entertainment: good earbuds at a great price
- entertainment: HD Tivo
- tech: reliable cloud computing
- tech: fun programming quotes
- tech: hug a developer today
- Moore's Law in pictures
- tech: virtualization adoption
- tech: free IBM WebSphere Application Server (J2EE server) for developers
- tech: Shuttle SG31G2v2
- tech: don't leave your gmail unsecure
- tech + fun: hack your Canon digital camera
- tech: gmail + Thunderbird
- life: technology and happiness
- tech: getting subversion to work in IBM RAD 7.5
- tech: BSOD with ati2dvag
- Google as an ISP?
- tech: how to tell if your computer is 64-bit capable (for Linux fans)
- tech: resolving key problem when updating RHEL
- Category: things i wish i knew before working
- things I wish I knew before working in industry: Introduction
- technology: Doing is typically straightforward. Figuring out what to do is hard.
- technology: Projects are too big to do by yourself. You must work in a team. The definition of "team" is broad.
- technology: I/T is about integration and business process optimization. Think end-to-end.
- technology: I/T needs more ease-of-use and less complexity. More features doesn't always solve the problem.
- technology: Everything that does something for you also does something to you.
- technology: Proprietary is bad. Standards-based is good.
- technology: Build ecosystems instead of vendor lock-in.
- technology: If you have to create your own infrastructure, you'll never finish the project.
- technology: You don't have time to be a control freak.
- technology: Standing on the shoulders of others is not only OK, it's required.
- technology: Startups aren't necessarily good. Big companies aren't necessarily bad.
- technology: You'll spend less time working on technology than you think.
- working: get the bureaucracy to work for you instead of always pushing against it
- technical knowledge: learn how to learn
- technical knowledge: learn a little about a lot of things
- technical knowledge: I never used all those math classes
- technology: good solution builders are scientists and artists
- problem solving: build a network of people. Asking for advice is quicker and usually more insightful than learning the hard way.
- project schedules: the 80/80 rule is still in effect
- tech: issues in software engineering
- tech: comparing the popularity of programming languages
- tech: there is always more than one way to do it. Identify the pros and cons of each, and determine what makes the most sense in each circumstance.
- tech: business and customers
- tech: the security and privacy mindset
- tech: simplicity
- things I wish I knew before working in the I/T industry: the bullet version
- Category: Uncategorized
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