My Geek Finds

Some different blogging platforms:

If you want to set up your own on your own server or server space that you lease (hosting account):

• Wordpress
  This is my personal favorite (and what this blog is running on). Very easy to install and customize. Take about 5 minute go from no blog to blogging. A very large support community with tons of plugins and themes. Requires PHP and MySQL.
• Serendipity
  Another great opensource blog. I used this one in it’s early days. Pretty easy to install and use. I have a buddy that uses it on his blog and he really likes it. Looks like the Serendipity Community is also growing a bit.
• LifeType
  Now I have not uses LifeType in a long while. The project use to be called pLog and it had to change because of now trademark problem or something. It has seen some recent development but the user community is not that large. Still worth looking into though.

Hosted:

• Wordpress.com
  Allows you to start your own Wordpress Weblog. Free to sign up for and very easy to use.
• Blogger
  If you are technically challenged or you are just looking at getting started blogging then check out Blogger. My daughter has her blog here and she has fun with it. It is also very easy to use.
• There are hundreds more. Just do a search for free blogging.

Found this little jewel over here. Great step by step instructions to get Microsoft’s new Vista OS up and running in just a matter of minutes.

Hope you (enjoyed it) learned something.

Western Digital WDXMS1200TN
120 GB Passport USB 2.0 Hard Drive

I was looking for something to securely backup data from my laptop. I had been using a USB drive, which was 1 GB, and it worked fine but it was only 1 GB. I found this 120GB Passport USB Drive from Western Digital.

This little USB Harddrive is a great deal for the price and if you are looking for something with a little more storage (or maybe even a little less) there are others available. The 120GB was just what I needed and the price was right.

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Western Digital 120GB Passport USB Drive

Most of the website design and editing I do, I do by hand using a text editor such as vim or notepad even but occassionally, especially if I am trying to lay out tables, CSS, or image maps (I hardly ever mess with image maps but sometimes) HTML Kit is an excellent tool to help with these tasks.

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HTML Kit - Great HTML Editor

Just wanted to post a note about what you can expect to find here. I am a Network/Systems Administrator for a nationwide communicactions company. In my day to day work I come across cool hardware, software, and gadgets all the time.

I am pretty big on opensource software and I use it whenever I can.

After work and on the weekends I run a couple of websites, including an online retail site, there are a lot of things that I come across that help me out alot in the day to day operation of these site so I will be sharing them here.

I am going to try and post here a few times a week, or whenever I come across something new. I have a huge list of things I am going to be posting about so check back in the next day or so to see what is up.