One of my daily reads is the Get Rich Slowly blog.
Here’s a gem from the site:
Building wealth is like building a house. The first step is to lay a foundation upon which the secure home of financial independence can be constructed. To prepare to build wealth, you must
- eliminate debt
- reduce spending
- increase earnings
I really need this Mad Russian ratbike.
Zippy is a Mac SE/30 webserver. Take a close look at the screen — it’s a constantly-updated picture of the http logs from this little webserver.
I’ve been doing a lot of work with Debian recently.
Useful hints:
This forum post shows how to use Microsoft Active Directory with Thunderbird’s Address Book.
I’ve been testing out Sandy for a few weeks. It’s functional, and the fact that it sends SMS alerts makes it much better than standard calendar alarms. The best use I’ve found so far is to send myself reminder emails when I’m out of the office — usually that’s when I’ll discover I need to do something, and have no pen or paper handy.
Yays! NetNewsWire is now a free download!
I used NNW for ages, a few years ago, but switched to Google Reader after NNW started asking me for my moneys. I find that NNW’s keyboard shortcuts are a lot faster than Google Reader’s, and the general experience is better. Another nice new feature is that news subscriptions sync between multiple copies of NetNewsWire via Newsgator.
CustomizeGoogle is one of my favorite Firefox (and Flock plugins. It allows very simple wildcard filtering of Google search results — perfect for removing all the bogus search results from those scumbags at ExpertSexchange.com, Tech Republic, and so on.
JungleDisk looks like a nice, cheap, safe way to back up non-sensitive personal data, like photos and such. I’ll poke around some more.
I had two issues while installing Leopard.
The Macbook Pro’s drive was partitioned as an Apple Partition Map, legacy from the G4 Powerbook. Leopard won’t install on APM for Intel systems. I cloned the drive to an external firewire drive, then repartitioned with Disk Utility from the Leopard DVD. It installed the OS, then saw the old OS on the still-attached external drive, and copied over all my settings. Nice.