http://geekido.org The "business personal" page for Geekido Enterprises Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:33:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I think I hit upon a trick of fusing GTD and DIT in a way that makes sense for me. I shift my DIT daily “will-do” list to a weekly “will-do” list, but keep daily lists. As part of the GTD weekly review, I identify which projects I ... http://geekido.org/2008/03/19/a-breakthrough/ A while back a friend asked me what blogs I follow on a regular basis to keep up with the IT world and professional life in general. I promised to post a list here. I have removed blogs I follow purely for personal reasons. Not all of these ... http://geekido.org/2008/01/09/subscribed-blogs/ I have several sites that use OSSEC HIDS. For a variety of reasons I won't go into here, I do not have a central server with agents. Instead, each server has its own local installation, each e-mailing back to the same e-mail account. I set the e-mail from for each ... http://geekido.org/2007/10/17/a-quick-hack-for-changing-the-email_from-name-in-ossec-hids/ I’ve been confirmed to participate in an iPhone Tech Talk session in DC on October 12. I’m hoping to apply what I learn there to making MacIDOL stream with iPhones and iPod Touchs. See more progress on: learn how to adapt my web sites for the iPhone http://geekido.org/2007/09/30/iphone-tech-talk/ I’m happy to see that almost everything works. The one exception is playing music off of MacIDOL. I’m constrained with the software that MacIDOL uses behind the scenes for serving the music—it doesn’t do it in a way that is iPhone compatible. I’ve had one session with the Apple documentation trying ... http://geekido.org/2007/09/11/viewing-web-sites-i-manage-on-iphone/ Steve Pavlina had a blog entry on Personal Productivity Scaffolds that caught my eye. I am going to try to apply this approach to blogging and other online networking efforts to make them more consistent, and make sure they get enough time without getting too much.I laid a foundation ... http://geekido.org/2007/08/09/scaffolding-bloggingonline-networking/ I came up with my personal definition of mastery as a security professional. I realized there was no longer any joy in browsing the security books at the bookstore, because there were no useful security books there for me. There might be the odd useful chapter here or there, ... http://geekido.org/2007/08/09/what-is-mastery/ I've drifted past 43things in the past but never paid much attention to it. In the last couple of days I have revisited it with an eye toward professional networking and meeting other folks with similar goals. Some of what I originally intended to accomplish with this blog is better ... http://geekido.org/2007/08/07/experimenting-with-43things/ Ive found when trying to estimate several projects that I’m just not too good at estimating. I’m about halfway through “Agile Estimating and Planning” by Mike Cohn, and find it quite useful. I used to consider project management somewhat ho-hum, but now I’m actually looking forward to trying ... http://geekido.org/2007/08/07/excellent-book-cohns-agile-estimating-and-planning/ It's time to replace the aging Linux server that is the latest in a long line of servers that have been storing our mail at home for the last decade. It's gone through several upgrades, but the general architecture has been the same -- a low-end tower or mini-tower ... http://geekido.org/2006/12/26/new-home-mail-server-part-1-before/