Archive for April, 2006:

Invention and instruction go hand in hand

{ Posted on Apr 28 2006 by annegentle }
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Walk through some neat sites and ideas I've seen lately related to instructions and inventing new things I found a really nifty website the other day -- instructables.com. It contains instructions for do-it-yourself projects, such as a Rubik's ...Read More »

Merriam Webster’s Pocket Dictionary on your iPod

{ Posted on Apr 25 2006 by annegentle }
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For about US$10, you can have a pocket dictionary on your iPod Found this iPod Pocket Dictionary on my Gizmodo feed yesterday, and thought I'd pass it along. Since it's the pocket version of the Merriam Webster ...Read More »

Notes from the Central Texas DITA User Group meeting

{ Posted on Apr 21 2006 by annegentle }
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Two speakers shared their takeaways from DITA 2006 and CMS 2006 I attended the central Texas DITA users group meeting last night, and wanted to write up some notes. We had two speakers share their thoughts after ...Read More »

Time to change the name of my talk.bmc blog

{ Posted on Apr 19 2006 by annegentle }
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I want to reflect the content I've got I've been blogging since last September, believe it or not, with almost 75 posts to show for it. After talking it over with my peers and the web team ...Read More »

Getting expert content from outside sources

{ Posted on Apr 11 2006 by annegentle }
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Riffing on some ideas for getting authoritative technical content from new sources What can you do when expert content is hard to come by? I'm talking about the upper-crust trusted sources of technical information, much like how A-list bloggers ...Read More »

Follow up for ITIL and monitoring

{ Posted on Apr 07 2006 by annegentle }
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I posted a scenario last week and got some feedback from the CONTROL-M folks Shortly after posting my ITIL and monitoring scenario about BMC Performance Manager notifying CONTROL-M that an SAP job was failing, I got a ...Read More »

How to save money by monitoring closely

{ Posted on Apr 05 2006 by annegentle }
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How monitoring voltage closely can save money... are there parallels for monitoring your systems closely? On my way in to work the other day, I caught an NPR story, Utility's 'Voltage Reduction' Plan Saves Energy, about how a Washington ...Read More »