Until yesterday, my collection of digital photos was a complete mess. We had pictures archived away in multiple tar files on multiple computers, and duplicates everywhere. It was hard to find a picture, and unless you really knew exactly what you were looking for and where it was, it was impossible. Yesterday, I googled for a good solution and I came upon This informative post about photo organization in linux. It was the perfect solution. (more…)

I’m slowly adding computers to my network now, and I’m discovering that not setting up a proper name convention when I only had 2 or 3 PCs is going to now be a problem. I want to think of a standard now while I’m in the process of moving things around and refining the network - before things really get out of hand. (more…)

Seems like my buddy Ed Corrado is jumping on the Technorati bandwagon amoung others (his profile).

Not to be left out, I decided to create my own Technorati Profile. You can check it out if you care too.

*sigh* - I’m only ranked at 1,141,986.

I never really messed about with the trackback feature, but I was a bit suprised to learn that they aren’t reciprocal in nature. I had (wrongly) assumed that when someone does a trackback to one of your posts, you get a link on their blog/site back to you. (more…)

It’s true - one man’s junk is another man’s treasure. I know this to be true because I was the recent recipient of such a fortune. Back in October, I was talking to an old friend of mine over instant messenger, and I had mentioned that I was working with some old UltraSparc1 machines (thank you Ed Corrado). My friend thought I was wasting my time, and mentioned that he was about to throw away 4 old Dell workstations and an ancient Dell server. A quick arrangement was made, and I set a date to drive up to Manhattan and pick them up. (more…)