After beating my head against my blogging software, trying to figure out why I could not submit posts via the various handy desktop weblog programs, I finally figured it out.
Now that I can blog more conveniently from my Mac I’ll try to keep the signal to noise ratio pretty good. Who knows, it may even inspire me to up the signal strength.
Update:
I’ve been trying out a couple of MacOS X Dashboard based applications for this purpose. Unfortunately, all of them seem to miss the mark for me by a few degrees.
First, none of them appear to have spel cheking. Though I tend to be a good speller, the automatic spell checking built into my Mac really helps me to avoid looking like a jackass when a neuron misfires.
The second problem seems to be more of an issue with Dashboard. With the exception of this posting, most of my posts tend not to be a quick note. Sitting in “Dashboard” mode rather negates the features of Mac OS X that I love.
Comments (archived)
Devin on Sept. 23rd, 2005 wrote:
The xJournal software you pointed out to me for LiveJournal is excellent. I don’t know if there is a way to adapt it for your website. It seems specifically designed for LiveJournal. I believe there is a way, if you have a LiveJournal account, to embed that journal directly into your own website. That could be another option. XJournal has saved me a lot of time and headaches.
Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Thursday, August 18, 2005
Yarrr! Malware ahoy!
My client is currently battling a rather nasty malware infection. Aside from the odd bit of forensic analysis and network scanning, I’ve been less involved in this one than I have in the past.
In this case, that appears to be a good thing. It’s hard to hide my frustration with the process. With upper management getting personally involved, I can’t help but wonder if management jobs are less glamourous that we all suspected. I, for one, want to cling to my romanticized notion of powerful men in boardrooms making important decisions. In reality these people are bored and hunger for their swashbuckling days of technical work.
The problem comes when they don’t realize how out of shape they’ve become. Swashbuckling is fun, and they get suckered into thinking that security is all awking and grepping log files, shutting down network ports, and figuring out what files and registry keys will make them feel secure.
This is the fun stuff, and it makes them forget (or ignore!) important management decisions and communications obligations to the rest of the organization. When several different hired groups of experts tell management, “you can never be secure again without reinstalling from pristine media,” what is so hard about taking their word for it and making it happen?
I don’t think it’s a hard-on for Paula Zahn that makes management so inclined to drop everything (Oh, my god! CNN has a virus!) and shirk their more mundane responsibility.
Swashbuckling is fun. And now that I think about it, I do look good in an eye patch.
I’m off to go get some rum.
Comments (archived)
Binky, on Aug. 18th, 2005 wrote:
Disfunctional Delusional Micromanagement (DDM): It’s how industrial zombies are made from people-meat.
In this case, that appears to be a good thing. It’s hard to hide my frustration with the process. With upper management getting personally involved, I can’t help but wonder if management jobs are less glamourous that we all suspected. I, for one, want to cling to my romanticized notion of powerful men in boardrooms making important decisions. In reality these people are bored and hunger for their swashbuckling days of technical work.
The problem comes when they don’t realize how out of shape they’ve become. Swashbuckling is fun, and they get suckered into thinking that security is all awking and grepping log files, shutting down network ports, and figuring out what files and registry keys will make them feel secure.
This is the fun stuff, and it makes them forget (or ignore!) important management decisions and communications obligations to the rest of the organization. When several different hired groups of experts tell management, “you can never be secure again without reinstalling from pristine media,” what is so hard about taking their word for it and making it happen?
I don’t think it’s a hard-on for Paula Zahn that makes management so inclined to drop everything (Oh, my god! CNN has a virus!) and shirk their more mundane responsibility.
Swashbuckling is fun. And now that I think about it, I do look good in an eye patch.
I’m off to go get some rum.
Comments (archived)
Binky, on Aug. 18th, 2005 wrote:
Disfunctional Delusional Micromanagement (DDM): It’s how industrial zombies are made from people-meat.
Europe was good. Sorry I didn’t write
Nothing like a vacation to Europe to completely sap any desire you have to write. Vacation recovery has been my excuse for just about everything that I’ve neglected since being back. Now that it’s been about six weeks, I figure it’s time for me to buck up and give you all the update that you’ve been waiting for.
Everybody asks: How was Europe? Please, everybody, rest assured that Europe is fine. How was our trip? In a word, fantastic.
I’m sure you are all mostly interested in our pictures. I’m working on it. I spent some time adding cheeky descriptions to each picture in iPhoto. Unfortunately, the only way to publish these to the web, is to send them all to your .Mac account. Though I have a .Mac account, I’d rather keep you all here on Thoughtspot.net. It’s more comfortable here.
Everybody asks: How was Europe? Please, everybody, rest assured that Europe is fine. How was our trip? In a word, fantastic.
I’m sure you are all mostly interested in our pictures. I’m working on it. I spent some time adding cheeky descriptions to each picture in iPhoto. Unfortunately, the only way to publish these to the web, is to send them all to your .Mac account. Though I have a .Mac account, I’d rather keep you all here on Thoughtspot.net. It’s more comfortable here.
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