Blog Article

Though the author never interviewed me like she said she was going to, the article about blogs appeared in our local paper today. A couple of other UNI employees were interviewed though, and at least they included URLs this time (I wonder if that's because I griped about it on my blog). Unfortunately, the people interviewed in the article haven't blogged long, as "since 2004" or "for a few weeks" are the time periods listed. I've been blogging since 2000. Anyone care to place any bets on how long it takes for that link to the article to die? :)

Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.1.1 Update

Just got notified that Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.1.1 Update has been released. Unfortunately, all the web page says is that "This update addresses several issues with Microsoft 2004." Wow, that's a helpful changelog....

Rolling back to RHEL 3

I've decided that RHEL 4 isn't ready for production for me yet. I can't get my NetBackup client to load on it, and VMWare ESX server has some problems keeping the clock synced, which is causing all my e-mail from that system to lag waaaay behind. So, I'm setting up a RHEL 3 system on the same VMWare server, which should hopefully work just fine. I'll move back to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 after VMWare and Veritas have their newer versions out, as I really liked some of the new features and the updated packages (SpamAssassin 3 and Dovecot IMAP).

Sun Blade 100 ATX Power Supply

Sun almost certainly won't like this, but I've found that the Sun Blade 100 does just have a normal ATX power supply, with only the ATX connector. Mine failed yesterday, so after looking at the pin outs, I realized that it's just a normal ATX power supply, and plugged one I "borrowed" from a co-workers PC in. Sure enough, it works, and is much quieter (and cheaper) than the crappy 200W power supply that Sun put in there. I'm going to order a modular ATX supply to replace it, as you only need the ATX power lead, and there isn't much room for the extra "standard" ATX cables in that Sun Blade case.

Local Man Writes Blog

A reporter from the Waterloo Courier contacted me today about being intervewed for a story she's doing about weblogs. I was actually in a story they did about blogs in January of 2003, but the Courier's search engine is so inept, you won't find the article. I linked to it back when it was published, but of course the paper broke the link too. The Courier is definitely not a blog-friendly web site. One thing that irked me at the time was that they didn't list the URLs of any of the sites that were used in the article, so if you were interested in reading what any of the interviewees wrote, it was difficult to track down their blogs. I'm lucky in that Seth Bokelman is a pretty unique name (there being only one other one, as far as I know) and his Google Rank is nothing compared to mine. :)

So, I'm not sure what the "angle" of the article will be yet, but I agreed to be interviewed. I'll just try to avoid using the word "incestuous" again, as my wife still teases me about that quote from the last one.

Lately, my biggest selling point for blogs is that they're an excellent resource for Google or your other search engine of choice. I've said recently to friends that Information isn't Information unless it's indexed by Google, as that's the way I feel. What good is it if it can't be indexed, searched, and shared? I'm a Google Junkie though, I bet I do at least 100 searches a day, but it's an extremely powerful tool, and the more bloggers you have feeding good information into that index, the better it becomes.