Highlight “anyone” and “everyone” in chat
Our team keeps in touch via an XMPP chat room. Most of us use Pidgin as our XMPP client. Pidgin automatically highlights lines that contain your username and pings you with a sound and/or visual cue....
View Article“Select All” in Spanish
I have a long overdue post about installing Windows in Japanese. In the meantime, here’s a tip if you’re working in Spanish: if you need to Select All (Seleccionar todo), the keyboard shortcut is...
View ArticleStuxnet
Reading security news [1] can be pretty scary, seeing that it mostly involves headlines about small bugs with big consequences. Bugs are an unavoidable reality, so security is critical for any IT team,...
View ArticleSix Thinking Hats
During our highly successful strategic planning sessions, I noticed how Tim the Great and Powerful was able to lead us as a group in generating and assessing a broad spectrum of ideas, and specifically...
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Workrave
When I started writing this, my Wii Fit Balance Board told me I had not used it in 109 days. And I’m pretty sure that was only to weigh my cat. The only thing scarier than reading about security is...
View ArticlePython packaging prophecies
At Delphi in Ancient Greece, where Apollo wrestled a great snake [1], many came to visit the oracle known as the Pythia. After breathing in the mind-expanding vapors that wafted through the temple, she...
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