OK, so I've already posted about this on FaceBook, and I'm sure I had something about it 2 years ago on my (old) blog, but Chris Rae has a really funny book out that compares the American definition of various words to their British counterparts.

Here's the link...if you go check out the site, you can get a very good sample of Chris' writing style and sense of humor, without paying a penny.

With (especially business) users on the go more and more, we're finding ourselves less tied to a 'real' office environment. One of the classic tie-downs, though, is the fax machine. Still a useful tool, is there any way to keep the convenience of a fax, but take advantage of new technology and cut the ties to the office? If not, this would be a short article; read on for an explanation and example:

More and more users are taking their email on the road with connected devices (i.e. Blackberry, Palm, Windows Mobile phones), so staying connected is easier than ever. It can get a little complicated, though, if your mail account isn't set up properly for your growing needs. If you're struggling because some of your email is *only* available at your desk, and some of it is *only* available only on your phone, read on for (hopefully) some help...

Hey, if your web browser is going to crash anyway, it might as well have a little personality. This is better than the cold messages you normally get from applications.

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That's -22F. Sheesh.

I had a customer computer, which was running Windows XP Pro on a RAID 0 array (striping). There were twin 230GB hard drives, striped into a 460GB RAID0. Customer bought new 1 TB drives, and wanted them installed. This time, though, there would be no RAID, just one drive for the OS and programs, and one for the customer's data.

In [a previous post|blog/20080828/tethered-dialup-with-eeepc-palm-755p-and-alltel], I wrote about setting up a tethered dial-up connection using a Palm Treo 755p and an eeePC.

It seems that during the upgrade process from Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) to 8.10 (Intrepid), something changed in the networking modules and broke this...a little bit.

I just had an opportunity to install a new APC (Model BN1250LCD) UPS to support an Ubuntu Linux server. Configuration was _really_ easy thanks to [this post on the Ubuntu forums|http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=230199] and [this post in Ubuntu's Community Help documentation|https://help.ubuntu.com/community/apcupsd].

Since I started using [Atlassian's Confluence|http://confluence.atlassian.com] in a few projects, I find myself wanting to type in wiki markup everywhere. I especially like being able to create links like this:

[Title of url|url of link]

Using this markup, you can type something like this:
[John's Blog and Stuff|http://www.gobowen.com]

...and get this:
[John's Blog and Stuff|http://www.gobowen.com]

I already love OpenOffice for all the typical reasons (functionality, freedom, etc.), but it's always been a little slow to load. It might take 15 seconds or so to initially open writer or calc...once they're open, everything is fine...it's just that load time that's a little annoying.

Welcome to another opening day of the firearm deer season in Michigan...something of a local holiday I guess.

Here's my view on this windy afternoon...

I found a really nice script that backs up all my MySql databases on a rotation, and generally provides insurance against database crashes and the like. I followed the instructions given, popping my copy of the script into /etc/cron.daily, and double-checking the permissions. The only change I had to make to get the script to run properly was to set #!/bin/sh at the beginning of the file...after that, I could run it *manually* all I wanted. Neato.

If things go well, this post from email will have an image of a doggy
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If things go well, this post from email will have an image of a doggy
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