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9 Habits to Stop Now

I highly recommend reading the blogs, “The Not-To-Do List: 9 Habits to Stop Now” and “How to Check E-mail Twice a Day… or Once Every 10 Days“, by Tim Ferris. Great recommendations for all of us who don’t seem to ever have enough time for anything these days.

Tesla’s B-day today

Tesla’s birthday is today! Here’s a cool video of the person who invented modern electricity and the death ray….

Great Data Storage Presentation

If you go to http://dsstos.blogspot.com/ there’s an excellent presentation on data storage concepts and recommendations. It’s HDS AMS focused, but the majority of the presentation relates to general data storage. Great stuff!

Cleanup the Open with… menu in OS X

For OS X Leopard this worked for me. Cut and paste this command into terminal: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.f*/Frameworks/LaunchS*/Support/lsregister \ -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user

Tesla Motors

This is my next dream car. I saw one of these beauties in Ft. Lauderdale and it was so sexy. 100% Electric, quick charging, 0-60 in 3.9 seconds… Awesome.

My datacenter is all blowed up…

This is a marketing video from HP simulating a datacenter disaster causing a fail over to a backup datacenter. People often ask me what I do for a living and for most of the time the answer I usually give doesn’t help. If the conversation continues with printer driver questions in Vista I know I failed to describe what… Continue reading My datacenter is all blowed up…

Website tracking with Google Analytics

I recently started using Google Analytics to track my web site usage and so far it’s been great. By creating a account, and installing the wordpress plugin “Google Analyticator” I now get detail on how my site is being viewed. Great stuff – try it out!

mySql search and replace within a field.

When moving wordpress sites from one domain to another, it’s common to have hard coded urls in the database of the old web site. To update the majority of the posts, you can use the following sql statement to update the post urls. You may also need to run the statement on the guid foild… Continue reading mySql search and replace within a field.

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-17

4 Hours into migrations for 5 systems. I’m getting tired. # Powered by Twitter Tools.

Jesse Ventura and Waterboarding…

For a ex-wrestler and gov, Jesse can still impress at times… http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/13/jesse-ventura-i-coul.html

synctoy for Windows file syncs…

I found the following application from Microsoft to be quite useful for syncing files between hard drives and network drives. Check it out! http://www.microsoft.com/prophoto/downloads/synctoy.aspx

Why pre-flight checks are good…

This video was taken by Mr. Brown while we were at the Cherry Creek RC airfield (http://www.denverrceagles.org/) last week. If you watch the video you’ll see the starboard aileron at full deflection. The guy who flew the plane had a hard landing earlier that day and didn’t forgot to do another pre-flight control check before… Continue reading Why pre-flight checks are good…

Goodbye Sun Microsystems…

So Oracle is in the final stages of buying Sun Microsystems Inc, a company I adored for years. It’s too bad to see Sun go, and with all other Oracle buyouts I’m sure not much will be left of the original idea of Sun. It’s sad to see, but after seeing Sun as the premier… Continue reading Goodbye Sun Microsystems…

747 Training Video

My A-10 Foamie and F4U Corsair

Here’s my new A-10 warthog just completed and the F4-U Corsair I’m building. The A-10 is my first ducted fan plane so I’m excited to see how it does. I expect to “mod” it for Colorado’s altitude. I got the A-10 kit from NitroPlanes and while the parts are a bit cheezy, the foam construction… Continue reading My A-10 Foamie and F4U Corsair