tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-208007002011-04-22T09:43:19.414+08:00The contents below are likely to be dedicated to the documentation of base nerdishness. Do not rely on them to be objective, coherent or even correct.satchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10598747176513586276noreply@blogger.comBlogger231100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20800700.post-1153726562315168972006-07-24T15:36:00.000+08:002006-07-24T15:36:02.343+08:00

Was piecing together a bit more dabbling in the internet and a few interesting words really jumped out at me.  This arrangement of words allowed their definitons to slot together so neatly I had to share my perspective.1) Responsiveness:  be prepared to connect, respond to external and internal stimulus and observe both the response and the reaction.2) Me (wikipedia, meta:Neal Stephenson, Sumeria

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http://davidseah.com/archives/2006/05/22/adult-onset-productivity-responsibility-syndrome/damn, that's another one.And it has a Neal Stephenson quote!!

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http://jasonalanmoore.wordpress.com/2006/04/28/my-gtd-implementation/It's so refreshing coming across a site detailing the same issues that are current in your own life.  Especially project work.

satchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10598747176513586276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20800700.post-1152243785901171752006-07-07T11:43:00.000+08:002006-07-07T11:43:05.950+08:00

Okay, blatant homage to David Allen and his brilliance.Here's my perspective and what I'm doing to lay it out / implement it."Getting Things Done" (G.T.D.) for those who have never heard of it is a method / framework for achieving a degree of coordination and organisation of "STUFF" in your life.  It's laid out in a book of the same name, I highly suggest you get your hands on a copy and read

satchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10598747176513586276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20800700.post-1151476455231917862006-06-28T14:34:00.000+08:002006-06-28T14:34:15.260+08:00

Much work has gone into finalising the contents of the portable workspace that is my 1GB USB key.  I've been poring through all manner of resources picking only the most useful and appropriate apps and have finally got it.  So here it is,Portable Firefox w/ Performancing, DownThemAll, IE Tab, SwitchProxy, Sage RSS Reader and del.icio.us extensions - store for all bookmarks and RSS feeds.Portable

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OnlineOrganizingWell, since you are probably procrastinating already, cause I know I am by writing this blog article, the above site has some great pointers on getting past that inevitable question of "Why am I here?" or "Surely they don't pay me enough to keep working?".

satchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10598747176513586276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20800700.post-1147678166549755392006-05-15T15:29:00.000+08:002006-05-15T15:29:26.553+08:00

If you have never seen this, you need to understand:http://lessig.org/freeculture/free.html

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http://www.paulstips.comOkay, once in a while you come across a site that strikes you as pompous beyond compare intially.  I mean seriously "What I've learned about life and how it can help you!" is this place's catch cry.Read a few bits of content though and the value sinks in.  This guy has actually written down the BASICS of things!For those of us with more than a few neurons it reads like a

satchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10598747176513586276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20800700.post-1147406610617169812006-05-12T12:03:00.000+08:002006-05-12T12:03:30.623+08:00

http://www.youmeworks.com/zen.htmlAhhh.. so that's what's wrong with me.This is one of those delightfully placid descriptions of an ancient methodology."That's a lot of benefit from just learning to be present."Well, I'm here and I'm willing to learn, and anything that stops me from being overly twitchy might be worth a shot *grin*Anyhoo, back to work.  Half way point between

satchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10598747176513586276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20800700.post-1147392885158556402006-05-12T08:14:00.000+08:002006-05-12T08:14:45.263+08:00

http://portableapps.com/Simply bloody awesome, if you were looking for a application that you could sling onto a USB key and take with you, this place is the first stop.With a full spread of Mozilla's goodness, plus the best of open source,  PortableApps.com has it all.

satchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10598747176513586276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20800700.post-1139278557873084422006-02-07T09:41:00.000+08:002006-02-13T12:14:32.000+08:00

Well, one of the core aspects of Getting Things Done is being able to store "stuff" in trusted and easily reviewable containers. Preferably ones that can also serve as storage locations for reference, timing and processing of the stuff.I've wanted to keep my "stuff" mostly private, and it MUST be portable, so I focused on utilising my USB key to host the applications that will do the grunt

satchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10598747176513586276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20800700.post-1138668965204016512006-01-31T08:48:00.000+08:002006-01-31T08:56:29.270+08:00

Well that didn't take long...Amongst to sincere and the commitable the scum have shifted in.It seems to me that any public forum that is unmoderated, no matter how benign or well intentioned is soon overwhlemed by inane demands ('Give me a LAPTOP') and poorly concealed sales cruft ('I have Bottles of VIAGRA to give.... only $9.99').It's a pity, with harder moderation and verification of posters

satchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10598747176513586276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20800700.post-1138668496595754552006-01-31T08:20:00.000+08:002006-01-31T08:48:16.603+08:00

Well, I've gone and anihalated my network architecture.Work has me gearing up to deploy a 2003 Active Directory system, coming prepackaged from our home office I might point out.Needless to say having a bright shiny 2003 media sitting on my desk required, nay Demanded, that I build a test box @ home.djbDNS is unbreakable, it is solid, secure and untouchable.However if you vigorously fux something

satchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10598747176513586276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20800700.post-1137999355931365922006-01-23T14:48:00.000+08:002006-01-23T14:55:55.940+08:00

Well, the current content that is ripping my cortex is DNS. Man I'm loving this shit.Current resources on the reference list are --->http://www.bind9.net/http://cr.yp.to/andhttp://langfeldt.net/DNS-HOWTO/BIND-9/I've got to know how DNS works after this.I've already made djbDNS jump through hoops to make a cache and a referrer, but then stalled at the absence of added goodness such as dynamic DNS

satchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10598747176513586276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20800700.post-1137982488388438852006-01-23T10:05:00.000+08:002006-01-23T10:16:00.710+08:00

A few things to report today that fired up my neurotic spirit. In Australia, as with most of the western world an amazing sense of paranoia is being fueled by media and government. Most nerds are highly skilled media translators and usually loathe to give up any sort of personal freedom and therefore dismiss most of these constructions as just that, falsehoods or exaggerations.unfortunately, we

satchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10598747176513586276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20800700.post-1137659785019542332006-01-19T16:34:00.000+08:002006-01-19T16:36:25.026+08:00

A nod to the chaps at Happy Penguin for reminding me that gaming can be done right without a big budget.http://www.happypenguin.org/Sure none of it has the same gratuitous eye candy of F.E.A.R or WoW, but dammit there are some real jewels in there.

satchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10598747176513586276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20800700.post-1137414429174155442006-01-16T20:09:00.000+08:002006-01-16T20:27:09.183+08:00

http://www.evernote.com/en/Classic little free program, designed to assist you in collecting those useful scribbles and scrawls into one location.The biggest thing I'm loving about this app at the moment is the ability to plug nearly any content into it, shaping projects with multimedia has never been this concise.Making a web page? Store all your code snippets, icon / picture variations, color

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http://www.favorville.com/Well I like the idea, but as of today, I can't bloody register because I don't live of the eastern sea board of Australia!!!Oh well, a couple of emails sent off, and with any luck Bunbury, Geraldton and Perth will all be added in due course, and the rest of the world can enjoy favors from irrate Western Australian tech heads with inferiority complexes.

satchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10598747176513586276noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20800700.post-1137035902701804442006-01-12T11:04:00.000+08:002006-01-12T11:18:22.710+08:00

For any self respecting nerd continued refinement of the mess called existance that surrounds us is a core requirement.http://www.lifehacker.com/And this is the site to assist in doing just that.

satchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10598747176513586276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20800700.post-1137035061973037042006-01-12T10:59:00.000+08:002006-01-12T11:04:21.980+08:00

http://www.mayomi.com/This site has been developed to assist 'mind-mapping'. The details are sketchy and probably developed based off of psychology instead of evidence based practise, but I registered anyhow.I whipped together a map of services provided by my home servers in no time.I don't pretend to get 'mind-mapping', but process mapping was a bloody cinch with this thing.It's currently

satchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10598747176513586276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20800700.post-1136965931938491442006-01-11T15:45:00.000+08:002006-01-11T15:52:11.936+08:00

Okay,I've worked with Samba servers, I've worked with Active Directory on 2000 Servers.I need a cheap (read: free) authentication solution for the home network, and local machine accounts just don't stroke the nerdish ego enough.Answer: Build a Linux Server, put OpenLDAP on it, some sort of Kerberos engine (because that home network consisting of five PCs needs to be secure) and then start

satchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10598747176513586276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20800700.post-1136964569094261452006-01-11T15:22:00.000+08:002006-01-11T15:29:29.100+08:00

http://del.icio.usdelicious is a fantastic tool for keeping online reference to bookmarks.It also has the added 'social' advantage of being able to see what other people who have the same links also bookmark.On a research note, I've found more sources of note using this tool than hours of googling has gleaned.The only sour note is it's occasional lagginess, which seeing as it's just been picked

satchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10598747176513586276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20800700.post-1136946483667942082006-01-11T10:24:00.000+08:002006-01-11T10:30:09.836+08:00

NerdPad is primarily a place for me to start sorting my thoughts and plans, online publication means it's accessible and I can't avoid the contents myself.I'm going to post links to cool applications that have made my life easier, useful sites, plans and doco.Hell, anything that I think is interesting.Well, here we go.

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