Brian's Blog

I've mentioned at least once in the past that I've been using Insipid to keep track of my bookmarks. It's been some time since I installed it so just out of curiosity I checked and found a new version was available. The new version didn't make Insipid work that much different from what I could see however it did let me use the cool Firefox extension linked to from the Insipid site. Yes, I did try it with my older install but it didn't work. For the extension I turned off the full toolbar it adds because I think it takes up way to much screen real estate, but there is a all-in-one button you can add to another toolbar that gives you access to nearly all of the function of the full toolbar anyway. The thing I like best about it in the short time I've been playing with it is that is lets you view a tag cloud which Insipid doesn't do naively yet plus it can query del.icio.us for popular tags and suggest them when you are posting a new URL. Also, the tag completion part is kind of nice too. Pretty cool stuff.

Something else I did today to was to get screen to do certain things automatically on start up. I've known it could do this for some time but have just been lazy in doing it. It's kind of nice just typing "screen" and then each thing I normally run just starts in it's own screen. I even went so far as to setup irssi to auto join a couple of channels that I'm in nearly all the time when I use irc. I know, that isn't a screen thing, but still it's useful. Oh, and I found a modification to .screenrc that puts a nice status bar at the bottom of screen so I can see what screens are open along with the time and date.

Something else that's been on my mind too is perhaps switching blogging software. I've really enjoyed using nanoblogger. It's been a great experience using it, but as Linc from my local LUG pointed out, after enough posts it takes a long time to generate your blog. Now, I know a newer version of nanoblogger is out but I'm not sure if I want to go through the hoops of re-modifying every single template I've modified in this version. It's really not all that hard. It's just very time consuming. At this point it's taking about 5 minutes to create a new post. I've been thinking of trying out wordpress. It seems to be a fairly popular blogging software so I'm hoping it has a good number of plug-ins and other support.

Well, I took my 70-292:Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment for an MCSA Certified on Windows 2000 exam today (Microsoft gets paid by the word obviously for their exam titles). I'm happy to say I've passed and am one step closer to obtaining the 3l33t h4x0r m4d skillz that only Microsoft can teach (not). So, only one more test left to become a fully upgraded minion of the Empire! Hey, it pays the bills right?

Oh, on a side note, it's a happy day. Captain Copyright is dead.

My friend Bob pointed out that I had never made an update regarding the results of my test. That's because I never actually took it. Unfortunately a emergency project game up at work and I had to reschedule. So, now I'm taking the test tomorrow morning at 9am. I'll do my best to actually follow up for the few who actually read my blog on a regular bases.

So, for a second time, wish me luck.