Archive for the 'guide' Category
Protecting Your Data with SSH – Background (Part 1)
Friday, August 17th, 2007While using either an open wireless network at a coffee shop, an untrusted network, or virtually any open network, your data is exposed. Data passed around on a network is normally unencrypted which means anyone can read it. Imagine the type of data you send over the network: passwords, private messages, more passwords! Have you [...]
A new way to sort RSS feeds
Saturday, December 30th, 2006I doubt this is new, but I just thought of it just now, so it’s new to me! I’m taking advantage of the Google Reader feature to group my RSS/Atom feeds by tagging them. This concept in itself isn’t new, but what I thought of was to take the feeds of certain tags from other [...]
Practical Usage of Microformats
Sunday, December 3rd, 2006My last post was not only an announcement of Taxi Driver playing at The Fremont here in SLO, but also an experiment. I generated the HTML for my post with the hCalendar Microformat creator. Once I created my post and viewed it, a greasemonkey script kicked in and I was able to automatically add it [...]
Organization with Web 2.0
Monday, November 27th, 2006If you’re anything like me, then you’re moving from computer to computer. Syncing data between all of these workstations can make your workflow both inefficient and unorganized. There are also cross-platform issues, and the different data formats between applications. This article will demonstrate how to overcome these problems with the use of web 2.0 applications [...]
Guidelines for Platonic Friendships
Thursday, November 9th, 2006I found this while browsing digg. Seeing as how I quite a few female friends, I thought this was a pretty accurate guide (with some exceptions). I especially like #3, 4, and 14.

