My Cool Tool submission has been featured today!
About a week ago, I sent a note to Kevin Kelly who, among other things, hosts the Cool Tools blog. I told him about ClickBook, which I use to do all kinds of crazy, geeky stuff, including make dictionaries of constructed languages (which I forgot to include in my initial submission).
And, today, he featured my submission. How cool is that?
So far, so good.
Over the weekend, I got an e-mail telling me that the two loans I made via Kiva.org funded. So, that means that they routed the money through the local organizations and on to the people who need it for their businesses. Obviously, it will be a while before that money gets put into use, but, at least they have access to it now.
You can track this process at my Kiva page, too:
http://www.kiva.org/lender/james5285
Saw this on Matt Mullenweg's blog...
Pardon me while I toot my own horn.
As of this morning, I am the number one hit on Google for the search terms "network geek". Now, if I could just find a better way to make money off that than Google Adsense...
Well, it's cool, anyway.
Free government guidelines.
When it comes to computer security, the National Security Agency is the shiznit. Or, at least they were. I think they've sort of fallen behind a bit, as government agencies tend to do.
In any case, they have a whole website of government-level guidelines on computer security that you can download for free. So, even if they're not the cutting edge any more, they're still good guides and free.
Oh, now this is taking fandom a little too far, I think.
You can now get Star Trek themed urns and caskets. Yes, the ultimate Final Frontier for Trek fans, a casket that looks like the photon torpedo shell from the end of The Wrath of Khan and an urn for cremated remains that looks like it belongs in Jean-Luc Picard's ready room.
Okay, all geek jokes aside, that urn doesn't look half-bad!
I made caper sauce last night.
Simpler is always better.
I'm trying to make my life congruent with my beliefs.
I got a kind of Christmas bonus Friday.
