Bubble Wrap Fun
I have discovered how to save millions on Christmas and birthday gifts. Just have something shipped to you that is packed in bubble wrap. The "something" goes to you, and the bubble wrap keeps the wife and kids entertained for hours!
Getting Excited about KDE4 All Over Again
How To Drink Water
Current Book List: Chess, Chess, Chess
Although I was never fortunate enough to take part of the chess club... anywhere... I have always loved the game intensely. Some of my fondest growing up memories are of me and my dad playing chess for long hours at a time. However, I've never really progressed much through the years, and haven't taken the time to try to improve. Well, having gotten my clock cleaned a few times on FICS, I've decided it's time to read a bit. 
KPilot Hackery of Sorts (or How To Sync Your Work’s Exchange Calendar To Your Palm, Part III)
It felt darned good to hack on KPilot just a wee bit today! Actually, it was less hacking on KPilot directly and more on some utility code that I've written that allows me to sync my work Exchange calendar into my personal calendar and subsequently to my Palm. I've blogged previously about this, but since my last post, I've switched employers (YAY!!!) and I now have to deal with Exchange 2007 OWA, with Forms-Based Authentication (FBA). FBA has managed to break the nifty little Ruby Exchange (RExchange) code that I'd been using, since RExchange doesn't do FBA. So, I've gone back to Graham Cobb's tremendously useful little OWASync package which has been updated to handle Exchange 2007's schema and FBA, WOOT!
So, anyway, if you, like me, need to sync your Exchange calendar to your Palm, and you don't want to have to keep your personal Calendar also in Exchange just for the privilege of being able to sync both work and personal calendars to your Palm, you might find some of this useful. The right answer for this, of course, is to get KDE PIM to be able to speak to Exchange, show it in kontact, allow 2-way manipulation of your Exchange calendar, and then get KPilot to know how to merge multiple calendars into 1 view and 2-way sync them. But that's a whole lotta work. =:)
I'm actually thinking that it might be a long-term idea to have KPilot be able to sync to multiple calendars on its own. But, again, that's a whole lotta work.
And what's more... while it might not be the prettiest solution, what I have now works and does what I need it to:
Looking for: Parental Controls Virtual Machine (or something)
Dear Lazyweb,
Stream This!
Last in our series of "when will that Jason kid shut up?!?" is this short, little ditty wherein I extol the wonders of an ancient Linux file server in my basement with a 250GB drive, my shiny (SHINY!!!) new PS3, my PSP, and the nifty little Open Source project of MediaTomb.
I Am More Geek Than You
A New Sherrif In Town
As I might have mentioned previously, I love a good book. And so I was delighted to discover Ted Dekker's books recently. I first read his "Skin" book which totally freaked me out and made me think that I couldn't handle any more of his books. But I took a chance on Saint next and absolutely loved it. Looking for more, I found Showdown, which turns out to be the previous book in Dekker's excellent Paradise series. The third book, Sinner, comes out soon and I'm totally looking forward to it.
Susan Cooper, Please Kick Someone’s Butt!
One of my favorite memories of all my growing-up years happened in my 7th grade. It centered around a very under-appreciated teacher of mine named Robin Avant who did something simple and inventive and refreshing and stirring with her class. I wish I knew how to contact her today because I can honestly say that she affected me in a deep, deep way and I'd love to thank her for it.