Where Are The Wise Men?

Nope, I’m not kidding. I found a blog mentioning the services of Box.net, which is offering 1 GB of WebDAV storage for free! I signed up and there doesn’t seem to be any hidden charges or restrictions or even strings attached. Of course, they have a pay service in which you can [...]

Apparently, Rivkah Sass has been named Librarian of the Year 2006:

Sass and the Omaha library board were made for each other. Taking risks is central to Sass’s management style. The first thing she told the citizens of Omaha when she arrived in September 2003 was, “You’ve got a second-rate library here. A great city deserves [...]

My sister-in-law is visiting and took a bunch of pictures of her kids and Leah playing around. I wanted to get a copy of some of them, but when I put the CompactFlash in and most of the pictures on it were gone! Including the one that we just taken. Action needed [...]

Because my blogging has been light lately, and it’s the start of a long weekend, how about some cool OSX apps? And these are all free, of course.

It’s hard to explain what Quicksilver is, but once you get used to it, it’s hard to go back. For instance, instead of going through my [...]

I’ve been fasinated by the LifeHacker site lately. It’s about making the technology work for you, and not work for the technology. Those are my words — their words are “Geek to live, not live to geek”.

One of the recent threads has been about a text-based todo list. The listing is pretty [...]

I’ve been reading some cool stuff about Bash lately. Hopefully, they are useful to you, too. This post really combines things from this page and this page.

I run the following command:

$ l sizer svg2png.py mypdf.pdf
-rw-r–r– 1 hostetlerm mkgroup-l-d 219975 Mar 8 16:38 mypdf.pdf -rwxr-xr-x 1 hostetlerm mkgroup-l-d 2927 [...]

If you live in Nebraska or just need a laugh then watch Colbert talk about Nebraska’s District 2, including an interview with Rep. Lee Terry!

Whenever I bring up my GMail account in FireFox on Windows, I see the following:

Yeah, it’s not very useful for me. Any ideas what is happening? The only change I can think of is that I may have upgraded NoScripts, but it should be allowing all scripts on GMail anyway. Here [...]

About a year ago, I made reservations for a cabin at the park for Mother’s Day and surprised Gina when I told her about it last month. On Friday night, we packed up our stuff

Eugene Mahoney State Park, which considered by many to be the crown jewel of Nebraska State Parks. In fact, [...]

My employeer wouldn’t necessarily like me to do a four-day work week, but this entry is worth reading — lots of good ideas.

And why work less? This quote explains it better than I could:

Here’s the problem though: When I’m old, I won’t wish that I spent more time building web apps or organizing events. [...]