I borrowed part of the title of this post from Wired's Wiki How-to but I thought their list was kinda crappy so I decided to make my own. I created the list below based off of what I've been told by my friend Trevor, an out-of-office ninja. Trevor is always calling me from the beach or the lobby of a hotel (breaking …

This is driving me absolutely crazy. For the 80th time, I'm required to create a user and give it the sysadmin role. I *have* to do this because the software is business critical (Blackberry Enterprise Server, Interwoven DMS) and installs will fail without it. With some software, I can temporarily grant access the take …

For those of you living in the Bay Area, SuperHappyDevHouse is going on today. I'll likely make a late arrival after I pick up my broken server in San Jose. WTF is SHDH, you ask? "DevHouse is not a marketing event. It's a non-exclusive event intended for passionate and creative technical people that want to have …

Recently, I contemplated getting a Vespa again but decided, instead, to stick with my pretty but slow bicycle. My commute is about 2 miles but using San Francisco's public transportation, generally takes 26 minutes from door to door. Too long! I can get there on my bike in 16 minutes but I have to drive in traffic, …

Sorry if you wrote via e-mail or left a comment in the past month or so and I didn't respond. I made a DNS change, broke stuff and consequently wasn't notified of any new comments or e-mails. I promise to respond when I get a chance. The DNS change also broke Akismet so I've gotta sift through about 2500 spams too.. …

Haha worst post title ever.. so very Wal-Mart romance novel-esque. I love it. So I wanted to share the word on the streets here in San Francisco. In attending conferences or hacker parties, here's the stuff that keeps cropping up, filtered to my tastes. The dotcom is coming back I often ask cab drivers about the …

My beloved 17 year old cat named KITTY II has been with me since I was in middle school and I'm now approaching 30. That's actually more than half of my life. As old as she is, she still looks young, a trait that runs in my family ;). Here's Kitty starring in a poorly Photoshopped (her right eye was too bright) …

I apologize for the duplicate posts that appeared in "all y'all's" RSS readers; I signed up with Feedburner a few days ago and it slightly changed the content of the feeds. I'm surprised I signed up with FeedBurner, honestly. As someone who's hosted my own mail/dns/web/database/everything since 1998, I've …

The Google Dev Team writes: "Due to the huge amount of interest, we've added spots at the event and opened registration back up." Seats are super limited so sign up while you still can. (Living in the Bay Area rocks)

Yesterday, while eating and drinking in North Beach SF, I stumbled upon an event put on by Jon Brumit called "Bring Your Own Big Wheel." What a trip :-D Imagine adults, dressed up as super heros and other oddities, racing big wheels down a very steep, very windey road. There were a ton of wipe-outs and …