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Hiya. Here's my wiki; I also blog at adminfoo.net and have a set of quuxutils. New for 2008, I've started a tumbleblog. Which is really a way of saying it's a sort of web scrapbook for quick jots and scribbles.

This wiki is an informal sort of doodling space. Don't expect fully-formed thoughts; what you find here is apt to be in progress, unfinished, or even abandoned. Feel free to use the comment link at bottom of each page, or email me, if you'd like more info on anything found here. If you want to contact me in realtime, the TalkOnIRC page shows an easy way to find me.

Stuff I have recently found interesting

• A coder looks at DNA
• ATT Tech channel.
• Today (2007/10/14) I spent about 45 minutes reading How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary. With a title like that, it's bound to suck, right? Wrong! Even if you have no designs on being a programmer ever, this little paper is chock-full of awesome and pithy advice on how to be part of any technical team. A must-read!
• Some thoughts about a really small life server
• The recent explosion of really cheap laptops, spurred by the OLPC, is worth keeping a weather eye on! Mobileread has built a nice comparison matrix.
• ... but this InfoPad concept is precisely what I would like to have as a mobile device. The author really lays out the whole case, down to market specifics. Quick summary - e-ink is the way to go; forget text recognition until it really works 100% (it doesn't, yet). Keep it simple. The goal is really to duplicate only the functionality of a paper notepad, with perhaps the ability to 'paste in' some lightweight apps from the computer, and to be able to export your e-ink to other computers. And maybe, just maybe, search stuff.
  • Also, down in the comments section there is a link to a good video on the Irex Iliad, which is currently the next-best alternative to the InfoPad.
  • Hmm, now that O'Reilly is selling most of their books as PDFs, an Infopad looks better than ever! (Because, while fiction as ebook is nice to have, technical references are a must for me.)  Note the problem with PDF format though - text cannot re-flow. So a PDF ebook designed for 8.5x11 pages is not going to work well in a smaller screen format.
  • While I wait for the InfoPad, I bought Nokia 770. More thinking about this here.
• Google's phisher list
• Trendwatchers I like: Mobile Opportunity
• activeCollab is nice project management software. Open source and self-hostable. Should be great when they finally release 1.0 (I am hoping it has a wiki; the author has said it will). 
• Untangle seems like a really nifty firewall/router/AV/IDS/more. Apparently no IPv6 support, though. The ebox seems nice. 
• Chumby at first looked pretty dumb. Then I started to see the possibilities ...

	I used Google's My Maps thingy to map out many of the the places I've been or would like to go. Yellow houses = places I have lived. Green house = where I live now Blue pushpins = places I've been. Ships = places visited by ship. Red pushpins = places I'd like to go. Lifelong goal is to at least set foot on all the major continents and landmasses.
	Well, yeah, you can map the internet too. But I won't try to put pushpins on it! Click the map for more xkcd. it's just fun.