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Jabber Nagios Notifications – Working Again!
I like using non-email notifications, especially when monitoring, you know, email. So I have notifications going out via twitter and google talk. Of the three, the order of speediness is: Google Talk Twitter Email So I was really sad when the google talk...
Goodbye, Blink.
I used to do web development. In Cold Fusion, a lot of the time. Cold Fusion is a language with tags that usually start with CF, like "<cf_query>". We had a customer who kept asking for the text to be bright red, huge, and blinking. (Not for the entire site, but...
Sale! “Ondine’s Curse”
"Ondine's Curse" will appear in an upcoming issue of the ever-awesome Electric Velocipede. Squee!
I am a winner!
I went to the Atlanta PowerShell Users Group tonight. The topic was tips and tricks. My trick was this script, which task scheduler reads to me in the morning. Assuming you use Hiveminder--and you should, because it's awesome--you only have to edit the RSS locations...
Fun with Exchange Management Shell
I'm really digging the Exchange Management Shell. It's FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY! Okay, maybe not the whole family. 😉 Short example: someone wanted to know if I could tell them how many emails someone sent in a specific time period. Short answer:...
Obituary spam
There is a special circle of hell for people who spam obituaries. As it turns out, I have a modest talent for obituaries. (Also job references, and for the same reason: I'm good at finding unique good things about people and saying them.) Unfortunately, I have now...
Immortal Gifts invites readers to re-evaluate the meanings of things such as life, death, freedom, hate and love from the first page. Katherine Villyard manages to capture some of the most poignant questions we ask ourselves as we go through our individual lives. Is it worth being able to live forever if, in the end, we’ll lose the ones we love to mortality? Is Death really the ultimate enemy to life, or is death just life’s misunderstood old friend? To stop hate, do we need to restrict our freedoms? This book makes readers ask and answer tough questions not only about the characters and plotline, but about their own beliefs, understandings, and dreams.