Archive for May, 2009

Google Voice and Skype – Cheap Awesome Home VoIP Phone Service

For about 3 years, I’ve lived totally without a “Land line” phone and used only a mobile phone.
At the same time, carrying two cell phones around was always a pain so I decided to cancel my “personal” cell phone and use only my employer provided blackberry. I recently got lucky enough (after weeks and [...]

Xmarks

Ever since Google Browser Sync was ceased; I’ve been looking for a better way to have a unified browser experience.
I have 4 different computers at home, and three different computers at work. Sometimes I use Internet Explorer, sometimes Firefox, sometimes Firefox in Linux.
With all these computers and all these browsers, keeping my bookmarks synced [...]

Event Log Management in 10 Minutes

Log management in an IT infrastructure is always going to be a challenge…
I’ve attempted to work with several “Enterprise” tools including GFI’s Languard, LogLogic, EventTracker, and a few more that aren’t even worth mentioning.
No matter the tool, the story is always the same: It’s a pain to work with logs, and a “pretty” interface [...]

New Theme

Can’t really explain why – but today I felt like changing my “Look n’ Feel” again.
Oddly enough, I started using K2 on May 10th 2008 – so it’s been my theme of choice for about 1 year exactly. At the time, I said to myself that I would never change from K2. Just [...]

Grand Theft Auto 4 – End Game Stats

Today I finally completed the storyline content of GTA4 on Xbox360. The last missions were pretty amazing, and overall this is one of my favorite games I’ve ever played. The storyline is surprisingly deep for a video game and it does a great job putting you into the middle of it. I don’t want to [...]