Wiki me!

After years of doing work and then forgetting that I had done it, last year I decided to take a drastic step and start a record of previous fixes and information.  After discovering that writing things down on tiny scraps of paper was ineffective (the scraps tend to bunch together in the washing machine), I installed a personal Wiki on my workstation.

Minimal web research led me to choose MoinMoinWiki.  Now I have an easy-to-update, searchable, browser-hosted record of my day-to-day work activities.  This is far superior to just unrelated Word documents in a LAN folder.

Wiki: not just for sharing!

Adblock Plus Rocks!

As a long-time user of the Adblock Firefox extension [insert image of author giving finger to ad-men everywhere], I heartily recommend the newer Adblock Plus.  Block all those silly web ads and banners, and destroy an entire business model, one click at a time!

Read the FAQ : AdblockPlus does not play well Filterset.G…there are other filters available.

Buzzword

Buzzword is an impressive new Flex/Flash based online word processor app. You can create an account and try it out for free:

http://www.buzzword.com