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Emacs wiki

I am currently obsessed with getting Emacs-wiki to post to my new server location. I have been using it to keep track of some new product development and innovation research I have been doing, but it is currently configured to save to my local machine. I want to move it to my server to make it more accessible, but I’m…

Bringing Linux to the laptop via Knoppix

In a recent Suitwatch column, Doc Searls talks about the issues of running and living with Linux on a new IBM laptop. I have been wanting to run Linux for some time but have not had a spare machine to install it. I thought about a dual-boot install on my wife’s machine, but there would be hell to pay if…

More on the Chicago Blogger dinner

It was nice to finally connect some faces to words and meet some new folks. I have been reading Rick Klau, Jim McGee, AKMA and Jenny Levine’s blogs for almost three years since moving to Chicago, but had not met in person. There were several new faces at the table (at least to me) and it was a pleasure meeting…

Weblog changes

I added two static pages in MT using Matt Haughey’s method. I started down the path that Brad Choate outlined, but I didn’t have time to fully understand how templating works in MT. The other method works fine, but as mentioned in the text is not as elegant as Choate’s hack. Ongoing changes to this weblog: Changed design through the…

From Shorts to Snow

March is certainly full of surprises. We went from running yesterday in shorts and t-shirts to finding the yard covered in a light dusting of snow this morning. Gotta love this weather…

More on the RSS Tipping Point

Chad Dickerson at Infoworld says Over the past several weeks, requests for InfoWorld’s Top News RSS feed have regularly exceeded the requests for our home page. This has been going on long enough now that we’re certain that it’s permanent. I think it’s a big deal. During the business day, we track hour-to-hour performance (using a combination of shell scripts…