I started picking up my guitar again and trying to learn the tab for “Cats in the Cradle” (as performed by Ugly Kid Joe, from the days of my youth…not my parents youth and the Cat Stevens version). I like playing the guitar, even though I suck. My wife, does not like me playing one [...]
BigCat’s Blog of DOOM
My name is Ben Catlin, and this is where I rock out on topics like my life, technology and faith.
Browsing Posts published in October, 2005
Current Mood: nerdySo, after discovering that I did not get the latest build of the new Windows Vista Beta 1, I started bugging the guy who got it for me to get me the latest one. He ignored my first email, but I was not daunted. I sent him a second one asking if there [...]
The next version of Windows was announced a few months ago. It is going to be called “Windows Vista.” This name, Vista, brings pain to me, because the manufacturing software I’ve spent the last three weeks upgrading and digging into is also called vista. But, that is neither here nor there…just an odd coincidence. ( I [...]
On the heels of free software post, I will point out some fun links to the laptop that I mentioned in poverty post. This is the site for the creator of the laptop. It has some fun info, and some especially great answers to some questions in the FAQ section. It actually goes along rather [...]
Well, as a follow-up to my last post, I thought I would just list some of the free open-source alternatives to your commonly used buisness applications. I’ll try to break this down into categories, list the not free version, followed by the free alternative and a brief description of how well it stacks up. ( the [...]
Current Mood: determined( long, but worth it (IMO) if you are interested in helping fight poverty ) ( OK, so what is the point, and what do we do about it ) Information should be free to everyone, even the poorest people in the world. Massachusetts gets that. I just want other people to get that as well.
Sometimes when a pack-rat, unorganized guy like me starts unpacking his stuff it can be like searching for buried treasure. I found lots of things that I had forgotten about that I really love. But besides that, I found a 50 dollar best buy gift card, that I had been saving until I found something [...]
Dude, server maintance sucks. Good news, the data I lost this weekend is recoverable. Bad news, it is 8pm and I’m still here. And, I’m here by myself.
Current Mood: pissed offWell, I’m at work today. Server upgrades for some software I’m responsible for. It wouldn’t have sucked except that yesterday we took the server down to start some backups, and the backup software corrupted our main server driver. How freaking awesome is that. Fortunately, we had taken some online backups right before [...]
I’ve been all about the cool applications lately, especially web apps. (Ask me about non-web applications like asterisk sometime). I saw this cool demo for an open-source app called zimbra today, and it looks sweet. It is an app designed to bring MS outlook functionality to your web browser, while coupled with an open-source alternative [...]
Yesterday I got my review. It was good. I agreed with the areas of improvement, and I thought I got some really good feedback in general, as well as some wisdom from my boss. When sallary came up, he offered me a 4 thousand dollar raise. In general, that would be a good raise. But, [...]
Current Mood: excitedNo, this isn’t about Firefox. It is about Google, and Sun seeing an opening in Microsofts Armor. I’m talking about finally moving your applications off of your desktop and into your browser. Google and Sun are going to announce a developing project based on Sun’s openoffice, that will run in your browser. Now, [...]
Moving is done, everything went well. So far, I haven’t found too many things that are broken or scratched to hell. Contrary to popular belief, we are going to fit everything in this slightly smaller (but better arranged) space. This new place is already shaping up well. So far I’m only at a loss when [...]
