I’ve been hacking around with Postfix and Procmail on Ubuntu recently. One thing I’ve used Procmail for is to solve the problem of how to get Direct Messages from more than one Twitter account to the same phone.
Verizon and other providers will let you send email to a cell phone provided you know the mail [...]
Went to TEDxHouston this past Saturday. I think the question I wanted answered was something like, “How do you make philanthropy profitable?”
Like most other knowledge workers, I want my work to be meaningful; to have purpose. Like way too many knowledge workers, my work isn’t as meaningful as I’d like it to be. I would [...]
Though I have read Harrison Owen’s Open Space Technology, I am certainly no expert on the subject. I have been to one open space, and tried to help a student organization make use of the principles of OST. OST sounds crazy, but it works.
I think OST is about empowerment; about the equality of ideas. I [...]
I tend to think of myself as an honest, hard working, principled person who is generally kind and open to new ideas. The last few years at work have been really difficult for me seeing as there was a huge mismatch in values between myself and senior management. Their attitude had always been: do what needs to [...]
I recently read Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware (Pragmatic Programmers), and in the book, Andy Hunt talks about hosting an all text wiki on a PDA for use as a mind map. For those of us not into schlepping hand-held devices around or syncing them to desktops or the web, a VPS (Virtual [...]
