Archive for December, 2007

links for 2007-12-30

December 29, 2007

Critics’ Picks: Favorite Books of 2007 - New York Times

Supercharge Your Scheduling with GCal -Since I have no corporate calendar, I looked at the leading cals online, plaxo, yahoo, and google. I liked google the best by far. Here are some great tips for integrating with other apps.

10 Signs of Intelligent Life at [...]

links for 2007-12-25

December 24, 2007

How to Improve Your Skills at Office Politics - Dumb Little Man

GridPoint = My Next Adventure

December 22, 2007

I am excited to tell you about GridPoint, the company I will join in January as VP of Engineering. GridPoint was founded in 2003 to help the electric industry manage renewable energy sources and increase energy efficiency in homes and businesses. Today, they are focused on products that help electric [...]

links for 2007-12-22

December 21, 2007

YouTube - The Long Johns - The Last Laugh - George Parr - Subprime
If you need help understanding the market and the subprime mortgage mess, check this out. It is entertaining
(tags: video finance)

Duels
This looks fun
(tags: games free)

links for 2007-12-21

December 20, 2007

Geek to Live: Black belt scheduling with Google Calendar
Hmm. I think I might switch from Plaxo. Google Calendar also has Blackberry sync.

2006 Seghesio Sonoma Zinfandel — Red
I picked up a bottle of this red zinfandel at Wegman’s today. It has a big bold flavor and smell. It’s really good.

links for 2007-12-14

December 13, 2007

Switching to Gmail » Draconis Software Blog
I can import my email, have a nice web UI, a nice mobile UI, and have it searchable by Google Desktop Search. It isn’t enough to make me switch my personal account from AOL but it is nice. Google should take note and this easier to do.  Any mail [...]

links for 2007-12-13

December 12, 2007

CrazyEgg - Measuring Web Site Usability
(tags: SEO usability Web)

Concannon Petite Sirah Limited Release 2004
This is a great inexpensive wine I discovered at dinner two weeks ago. I followed it up by buying a bottle at Wegmans. It is a great buy at the price. I am going back for a case.
(tags: wine)

As the Price of [...]

links for 2007-12-12

December 11, 2007

Catalog Choice - Eliminate unwanted catalogs you receive in the mail
This is a great service that should help cut down the load of junk catalogs you receive.
(tags: junkmail catalogs shared)

How to Post Daily Del.icio.us Links to Your Blog
I’ve seen this on a lot of blogs as a great way to share links. Now I [...]

Synergy: Share a Mouse, Keyboard, and cut-n-paste between computers

December 10, 2007

If you have multiple PCs or Macs next to each other, Synergy is a must have utility for you. This cool utility let’s you use one keyboard and mouse on all your computers on a single desktop. It works much like having multiple monitors on a single PC. You can move
the [...]

Windows on Mac Performance, Part 2

December 1, 2007

I have a little more information as a followup from the last post about VMWare vs. Parallels vs. Apple Boot Camp. This time, I looked briefly at CPU and memory footprints at idle. VMWare is easy on the CPU at idle, using only 0-10% CPU. But it is very [...]