Instead of posting my list of podcasts on twitter, I might as well post them here and point folks to this list. The list changes from time to time and there are a few old selections in here, which I probably should re-visit. It includes a mix of tech, development, humor and good-for-running selections.

Diggnation, The Digital Home podcast from CNET, Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders, HBR IdeaCast, Hivelogic Radio, Lullabot Podcast, MackBreak Weekly, Manager Tools, The Maniacal Rage Podcast, The Merlin Show, net@night, One Phat DJ Podcast, Podcasts at Penn State - ETS Talk, Podrunner, Rails Envy Podcast, RedMonk Podcasts (itmanagement), The Rissington Podcast, Ruby on Rails podcast, Security Now!, The Talk Show, This American Life, This Week in Photography, This Week in Tech, Venture Voice, Windows Weekly, WNYC’s Radio Lab

update: decided to update the post with links to the actual pages where one can subscribe to the shows.

Forgetting by xkcd - webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance,but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

I have a couple of ideas that I will bring to life as part of my blog in 2008. I want to improve my writing, be part of The Conversation, give back to the local community and I believe I can only do so with putting some effort and attention to my blog. There is a great technical community here in Phoenix and I would like to play an active role in said community.

2007 was a very good year from a personal point of view, I hope 2008 brings us all plenty of laughter, health and much success. Hopefully, it will also bring more content to this little corner of the Internet!

The second experience with a different shipping company, although this is probably not their fault, we recently bought a new computer system for the office. We have been receiving the system, one box at a time over the last three years. I felt I needed to apologize to the delivery person after the third daily delivery in a row and even offerred him something to drink for his trouble. Based on his comment, it appears it is not unusual and he told us a lot of computers are being delivered over the last few days!

Why am I making the change? well, with the new role at the office, I needed to have some independence from my desktop machine. I found myself taking my own laptop into a few meetings over the last few weeks. In addition, we needed access to Apple’s Intel platform for testing and development purposes a the office. I also believe Apple better fits my current needs and computing habits. I will continue to have access to Windows and continue to support our staff’s machines so I don’t anticipate losing touch with developments on that area. As a matter of fact, we’ll be testing a Vista machine in the near future as well.

This will be an experiment, an experiment on integrating this machine into the ASU infrastructure and in particular within our own department’s infrastructure. Will I be able to access out network storage shares? What about access to the SQl server given the current security policies in place?

I already know of one application that is Windows-only and it plays a pivotal role in our daily operations. For that, I am running XP on a Parallels virtual machine. What about email? I am not quite sure at this point what I am going to use, probably be testing a few programs as I go along, navigating the Enterprise world with the new Macbook. Just like the home experience was a few months ago, this should be a fun adventure.

Note: It should be noted the laptop was bought a few weeks ago and shipping was delayed a few days. Why would Apple deliver the new machine on the same day the announce iLife ‘08 and will not allow me to upgrade for the $10? At least they didn’t announce a price drop, or worse yet, a processor upgrade.

Today we have two security-related releases available for both users of our main 2.2 branch and the legacy 2.0 branch

update: I updated to the latest version and address the couple security that were taken care of with this new release. I have a short cheat-sheet to help me run these updates and it took just a few minutes to run through the whole thing. Now back to my regular non-blogging!

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