Tweet Don’t get me wrong…I love Amazon Web Services and EC2, it has changed the way I do business. I rocks. So tonight I was doing some server maintenance and backing up many server instances as AMI. This gives me a image snapshot of that production server to use while scaling and / or restoring [...]
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Tweet I remember back in 2001 right after my daughter was born I was building a house in Southern Oregon and decided to spend part of the summer traveling around Oregon. So I setup my laptop as a server so I could still work while I was travelling. Then I had a dial-up modem for [...]
Tweet As part of my 3rd party service development plan for my company I make recommendations for external systems that my company should be using for its operations. We don’t buy or develop everything internally. There are some amazing 3rd party applications. A couple notable ones are: Gmail / Google Apps for Your Domain Google [...]
Tweet I just did my taxes and broke down my spending for last year. I was newly divorced last year so I didn’t have any restraing on my social spending budget. I won’t give numbers on what I spent, but I was blown away what I spent wining and dining business customers as well as [...]
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Tweet What is the deal with Gmail today? Both my free gmail and google apps for my domain are total resource hogs. After opening either of them my processor goes to about 51% usage and stays there….as soon as I close it goes down to 12-15% with all my other applications. I have these 2 [...]
Tweet After I deal with all emails, fires, top requests, and spend a large amount of time on all my top projects I try to work on areas that are going to move my company forward. Creating a presence on the Internet is priority one. WebEvents Global is 10 years old, has a very mature [...]
Tweet So I am continuing cleaning up my world. I recently let probably 20-30 domains expire. In the past I have had a domain adiction….I just buy them thinking…someday I will do something with that. I know plenty of other geeks who do this. You just think….$10.00 for a domain…I can afford that! Then 50-100 [...]
Tweet I am spending about 30 minutes each day extending my companies reach onto popular social networks LinkedIn and Facebook. I reallky find LinkedIn is much more organized for such business efforts. It is much easier to reach people through LinkedIn QA. It allows me to ask questions and answer questions on topics that are [...]
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Tweet I am getting to know the Google Gtalk API a little more and playing around with automating GTalk communication using bots and other web-based tools. I came across a nice XMPPHP class that works great….saves me a lot of work. Check it out: http://code.google.com/p/xmpphp/
Tweet I was just playing with uploading pictures and making Obama posters out of them. Check it out: http://obamiconme.pastemagazine.com/entries/new.html
Tweet Was just reading a great article on how to get retweeted on OPEN forum. Great advice on how to effectively use twitter and spreadh your message or knowledge.
Tweet I read the McKinsey Quarterly from time to time. It comes into my inbox and when I see a title I like I tend to download and read further. Looks like they are getting into employing various social media marketing techniques as well, here is an email I got in my inbox. Tune in [...]
Tweet I have to admit things are getting tight. I have taken all my credit cards out of my wallet so I don’t spend on them. I pretend they don’t exist. I just had one credit card I noticed raised my interest from 7.99 to 29.7 because my payment posted on 11/12 instead of 11/11. [...]
Tweet There are many features that operating in the clouds using Amazon EC2 brings to the table. Although there are two areas that make me so nervous: 1) Terminating an Instance 2) Release IP Address Now I cover my ass with a rigorous backup process and creating AMI of my key production and development instances. [...]
Tweet I was reading a blog about a new service that will scan your business cards and import into a database for you. Here is their pitch: CloudContacts takes your business cards and puts them to work for you. Instead of storing your business cards in a pile on your desk or in one physical [...]
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Tweet I have moved out to the woods to live for a while. After living last summer in Bend, OR I have decided to live a little more remote. I spent a lot of last summer out wining and dining clients, partying and just generally enjoying the Bend scene. This summer I am going to [...]
Tweet Updated my WordPress version for www.kinlane.com and it killed my theme….so there was some custom work I had done that was lost. Well it isn’t totally lost…just not put into this template layout. I will get my twitter, flickr and other things back in soon.
Tweet Image via CrunchBase Was just playing around more with helltxt which is a multi-social network status update tool. I had come across it a long time ago but never really got the time to play with it. Now I update my status enough across Myspace, Facebook, and Linkedin enough that that the tool sounds [...]
Tweet I was working in my Google Docs, creating a couple new writings. Then I remember a couple other items I had written before and decided to look for them. Instead of seaching I just started scrolling down. And down… I saw things I haven’t seen in a while. It made me think about a [...]
Tweet Yeah you heard me! Bundling Amazon Web Services EC2 Instances can kill poor innocent SSL certificates. I had it happen the other night…thought I’d bundle all my instances….had done a bunch of configuration changes and thought it would be good idea. When came back up. 6 instances with SSL certs all down. I didn’t [...]
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