This thing is pretty slick.

Web 2.0 – much much easier that the 1.5-1.6 days.

And sure enough they had it on Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/Great-Quotes-Leaders-Peggy-Anderson/dp/1564142868

I don’t usually dig exotics but this one caught my eye for some reason. 270 mph? Come on who doesn’t need to go that fast?

Autoblog

pretty sweet. Figured I pay for the hosting space might as well play around with it.

This book has got to be one of the most visceral fictional books i’ve ever read. I won’t ruin the the story line, so much as touch on the premise. Imagine being alive but being robbed of all your senses. No legs, arms, hands, smells, tastes. Locked in your own thoughts barely being able to distinguish if you are awake or dreaming.

Freedom, liberty, country, all words and when framed and put in perspective next to what life really is the absurdity of any war strikes right at the heart.

This is a powerful thought provoking anti-war novel and I would highly recommend it to everyone.

Basically this blog posts articles about how to intergrate technology into your everyday life to make yourself more productive.  Among the coolest things I’ve found on this site is a link to mint.com. Security concerns aside, I took the plunge and it is freakin’ cool. I’ve come to not use any technology if it doesn’t do something for me that I wouldn’t want to do myself, and in this case its balance my check book and give me a clear picture of my finances across all my accounts and credit cards.

and

consumerist.com

This site has turned me into a customer service fiend. I came to the realization, i would estimate at over 2 years ago, that if you ever have an issue that requires a call to a customer service rep, be it for a cell phone bill, or other account issue you must have had some bad karma coming to you. A call to a comcast service rep is a pain in the ass I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. This site documents egregiously bad customer service incidents as well as puts an ever brightening spot light on corporate Americas “screw the consumer” attitudes.

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A little over a month ago I installed Ubuntu Linux ‘s Edgy Eft on my production workstation. I use this machine pretty much all day everyday. I’m a network admin/help desk/server admin IT guy and this machine needs to perform or I can’t do my job.
After a few obstacles, I wouldnt even call them obstacles so much as normal desktop set up routines, I had PDF’s displaying fine, printers printing,e-mails mailing, and file shares sharing. My box integrated into our windows network like a duck to water. The terminal services client let me interface with my servers just like the client in XP and with a little “apt magic” I had wine set up and it was quite content to run the windows ultra-vnc client we use to manage all our remote desktops when a user calls in with an issue.
After feeling very confident that I could do all that I could do in XP in my shiny new OS with a whirling 3D desktop, although some may argue sucks productivity actually aids in keeping me alert during monotonous trouble shooting calls from the field, I had to reset a domain password. I had to reboot to windows. First time in about 2 weeks.
I figured I’d do a little googling for linux active directory tools, then I kept digging and seeing if I could find LDAP tools that would work. No such luck. I was tied to “active directory users & computers”. So I set up 1 of the spare PC’s we have laying around and just leave ADUC running on it and it actually increased the ease of completeing tasks in AD as that admin console takes a a year and a day to open up…but thats another story.

More updates to come….perhaps a top 10 useful apps to know once you switch over.