• On the Road

    A Glympse Into Where You’re At

    When you’re flying, you might find that you’d like to let someone know here and there where you’re at. For example, someone who’s supposed to pick you up at the airport. Or someone who you’re supposed to visit when you arrive at your destination. So there’s a pretty cool new tool called Glympse. Using Glimpse, you can send an invite to someone you’d like to see your travel times; these are known as glympses. Once you send an invite, your friends can click the link and see down to the minute stats of when you’ll be at your destination. And they can keep the screen open for as long as they wish.

  • Mac OS X,  On the Road,  Travel

    On the Road: Sprint SmartView

    When I’m on the road, I use a Sprint Sierra card. I used to pay for Internet access in my room, fish around for Wi-fi networks, etc. But no more. Now, when I’m at the airport, in the hotel or even when I’m at home and both of my Internet connections go down (sadly, it happens) I’m able to use my laptop and be online. Right now, I’m using the Compass 597 from Sierra, which has a top speed of 3.1 Mbps down or 1.8 Mbps up. I look forward to the day when I can upgrade to the Sierra USB 306/307, which actually bumps that top speed to 21…

  • iPhone,  Mac OS X Server,  On the Road

    iPhone Apps for OS X Server Admins

    There is a really nice app for Mac OS X Server admins from Harlekins called Server Admin Remote.  You can see more information about it at the Server Admin Remote website, here. Basically, Server Admin Remote is a nice front end for a few serveradmin commands, showing which services are installed and the status of services.  It also looks at server host names, CPU, network loads, service logs and some of the more important stats per service (ie – concurrent connections for AFP.  Overall it’s a great little app for the Server Admin to quickly be able to restart a service or just look at statuses of services.  It runs over…

  • On the Road

    On the Road: Vegas

    I’m staying on the West Side of Las Vegas for the first time, to be close to my job site.  It’s nice.  It’s less crowded, less pretentious and really a lot more like a suburb with a random casino here and there.  If you’re looking for the Vegas experience, probably not what you’re after.  But if you’re looking for a low-key place away from it all, there’s plenty here that’s appealing.  Good stuff.

  • On the Road

    On the Road: DIA Again

    For the second time in two months I got stuck in Denver International for the night in the middle of a layover.  But this time it was a completely different experience.  Last time I arrived at DIA at midnight after being delayed and after facing a snotty customer service desk ended up stuck outside the airport (the security gate was closed already) and proceeded to grab a hotel for 4 or 5 hours on my own dime only to come back to a standby flight where I got to sit in the center seat in the back of the plane.  This time though I arrived about 5 minutes after my…

  • On the Road

    Public Speaking

    Ever get nervous in front of a crowd?  I had an interesting recommendation for this kind of thing today: curl your toes.  It’s funny, it helps keep you from gesticulating madly, mubling, etc.  Shout out for that one!