I am all about efficiency. In conversations I try to cut right to the chase. At work I try to sort through all the cruft people tell me and find what is really important. Years ago I came up with a little law that has yet to be proven wrong. The productivity of a meeting [...]

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There are times that you need to maintain a long-term SSH connection. This may be because you need to keep a tunnel open, or you just want to stay logged into a machine. However, depending on the settings and network conditions of all the intervening computers it may be difficult to keep this connection open. [...]

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I work at a place that blocks most outgoing ports, including Google Chat (port 5222). While I don’t use chat much at work it is nice for me and my wife to communicate short messages quickly. Of course I’ve never let a little thing like a firewall stop me, so I figured a way around [...]

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This site now allows OpenID logins. I think OpenID is a great idea. All your information and credentials are maintained in one location, which you can give a secure password. On any site that support OpenID you can then log in. The cool thing is that your password is kept safe. The OpenID enabled sites [...]

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