Christopher

Installing Vista SP1 on Dual Boot w/ Ubuntu

I’d written a blog post about setting up my laptop as a Dual Boot with Vista and Ubuntu. I thought I’d written a blog post on how to get Vista to suck less by XP-ifiy it. Turn off UAC (User Account Control) and that’ll make it far less annoying. I chose not to remove Vista and install XP because I was afraid I’d have problems finding drivers for the laptop. On to installing...

Christopher

Twitterize Me

I’m not going to give a complete list of social web tools that I’m using, but I have this blog, a Livejournal account, Facebook, Twitter, and for IM I use Trillian to aggregate ICQ, AOL IM, and Yahoo! Messenger. Not to mention LinkedIn, and a few other websites I subscribe to. There are a number of Twitter applications so I don’t have to use the website, but I thought wouldn’t it be...

Christopher

Being Optimistic in a Financial Crisis

Actually, I took this picture when I went to the Internet World Fall ’98. It was held at the Jacob K. Javits Center in NYC, though I like to refer to it as the John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt Center. I’ve been to a few tech conferences since then, but none quite as big as this one. I fear we will see many more people on the streets in the coming months that truly are desperate. I’ve...

Christopher

Job Search

Well now I’m beginning my job search in earnest. I’ve uploaded my resume to Dice.com and applied for two positions. I’ll be submitting my résumé and applying for many more positions over the coming days and weeks. I am currently employed in Tulsa but will be moving to Tucson in December 2008. My employer is fully aware of the situation and is sad to see me go. My wife is a professor...

Christopher

Online Social Network Fatigue

I have my own blog (this), my own podcast (actually 2 but one is going away), my own facebook account, my own twitter account. I have a skype account, aim, yahoo im, icq, and a livejournal account. Oh, yeah and a linkedln account. I don’t have a myspace account. I have an email address with my ISP and I even have a gmail account. Don’t get me started on the number of websites I’ve...