Rich Tong's Tips, Tricks and Traps
Well, I use Slack a lot particularly for development projects. The integrations really make the difference. That said it is a super quirky application because it sprays settings across the mobile and web application. It’s confusing because they have two completely different technology sets (even in the 2020s!) so that (like Zoom), some settings are…
Well this has always been a little bit of a mystery to me. When you work with WordPress, it eventually does like to send mail to folks as an administrator. How do you make this work. If you are using Amazon AWS Lightsail, the default Bitnami image has something called WP Mail SMTP preloaded. You…
I’ve been futzing with social networks for a while. After all if they’ve got score like Waze, Yelp, or Foodspotting or follower counts like twitter, Facebook or Instagram, might as well be good at it 🙂 Like frequent flyer points (I love thepointsguy.com!) I’m sure there are optimizes but lately I’ve noticed every cross posts…
BTS – Airline Information – Airline On-Time Statistics – Detailed Statistics – Results. We are thinking about going to Hawaii and I was curious about ontime departure. Man, those folks at the Bureau of Transportation really have their act together. What an incredible database. You can actually look at 5 years of data on on…
UCDS and the John Neilson Fund _John Neilson passed away several years ago, but his memory lives on. Connie and I contributed to a fund for teaching and education. Here are some results from a program that is part of the teaching center it supports. It is kind of cool to see something that actually…
BELLUM – warfare philosophy. Super well organized site on the philosophy and doctrine of warfare through the ages
Amazon.com: Books: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. Been looking for books to get for my brother’s birthday. I think I already got him this one, but if you don’t have it you should get a copy. It explains one of lifes biggest questions, “Why do the White men have all the…
Bibliomania: Free Online Literature and Study Guides. Bibliomania is a great free study guide. Don’t understand the business model, but am sure glad it is there. Here’s useful quote for someone defending their turf: Not only reason but experience, in hundreds and thousands of instances, show that a well-traced, sufficiently manned, and well-defended entrenchment is,…
Like Zagula, I’ve been collecting quotes and thoughts like mad. Here are some good sources: * Library Sun Tzu The Art of War and Strategy Site by Sonshi.com.. . Besides Sun Tzu, he’s got most of the other classic military thinkers like “Clausewitz’:http://www.sonshi.com/clausewitz.html * “Web Wargaming”:http://www.webwargaming.com/. While doing this, I found someone who wrote a…
Doodlebaby. Hat tip to Zagula for this. Alway slooking for great places to buy gifts.