Archive for October, 2005

FOSS OTD: 10/19-10/23

Monday, October 24th, 2005

Okay, so I got behind on the FOSS OTD postings. Catching up:

10/19: PHP is a wonderful, fast, and flexible OSS scripting language for web programming and stand-alone applications.
10/20: FileZilla is a free FTP client. There is also a great FileZilla Server application.
10/21: PuTTY is a free telnet/SSH client. Very dependable and flexible.
10/22: Notepad++ is a [...]

“Mr. England” bemuses Alabama locals

Sunday, October 23rd, 2005

This is just really, really sad.

Whatever happened to…

Sunday, October 23rd, 2005

Whatever happened to “Take Me Out to the Ballgame?” Why are the World Series games featuring “God Bless America?” That’s a fine sentiment - though not a very good piece of music, in my opinion - but a seventh-inning stretch without “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” is an outrage. In fact, it’s unpatriotic, even [...]

FOSS OTD: AstroGrep

Tuesday, October 18th, 2005

Defined as a “Windows GUI grep utility,” AstroGrep is a search tool, similar to the “grep” tool in Linux, but with a Graphical User Interface (GUI, i.e. a window, not a command line). It’s faster and more reliable, in my experience, than the built-in Windows file search features. It can show search results in context [...]

Rough Day

Tuesday, October 18th, 2005

Okay, it could have been much worse, but this was a rough day.
I smacked into the curb, pulling out of the garage, this morning. No damage to the car, so far as I can tell.
I bollixed up my understanding of a set of cases in Contracts.
I made a fool of myself in Torts, when I [...]

FOSS OTD: WordPress

Monday, October 17th, 2005

Today’s FOSS OTD is WordPress, Free Blog Tool and Weblog Platform. WordPress makes it amazingly easy to set up and maintain a blog, with tons of plugins and easy theme creation. It’s the software that powers this blog, and I give it my hearty endorsement.

Forget breaking .500…

Monday, October 17th, 2005

I’ll settle for breaking .200, this year… Details here.

Awesome

Sunday, October 16th, 2005

So, the White Sox are going to the World Series, and the Astros are probably going to join them. I am a happy man.

FOSS OTD: Desktop Weather

Sunday, October 16th, 2005

The Weather Channel makes their forecasts, weather alerts, live traffic info, and other information available on your desktop with Desktop Weather. It’s free (not open source), but there is a paid version with a few more features. The free version is adware - it shows ads within the application, itself, but does not show them [...]

FOSS OTD: Google Desktop

Saturday, October 15th, 2005

Today’s FOSS OTD is Google Desktop. Google Desktop is not open source, but it is free, and it is very, very useful. I use it all the time to locate e-mails I can’t seem to find on my own, or to figure out what webpage it was that had some useful piece of information, or [...]