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10 Reasons to Date a Geek

This post cracked me up... And most of it is true.

We’re Loyal

Loyalty runs in our veins. If a geek can be so loyal to their favourite gadget manufacturer, operating system, TV show, movies, fantasy heroes and so on, imagine what happens when they meet that special person. To top that, when we are in a serious relationship we feel like “the chosen one” and that’s something you just can’t risk losing.

We’re Caring

Just observe how a geek treats something that they love. Be it their gadgets, their collection of any sort (I love my CPU collection) or even their job. Look at how meticulous they are. You can be sure that when a geek loves you, they will give you all the care you need and make sure that you have everything.

Read the full article at TNW

 

Posterous = Options

Been doing a bit of monkeying around with Posterous tonight. It's a powerful tool for posting to multiple sites, but it takes a bit of studying to remember the different address options required to post to those sites selectively.

So if you see a few random posts tonight, it's just me, geeking out.

Flock + Foxmarks

Flock has always been a browser that I've really, really wanted to use, but didn't because I couldn't sync my bookmarks between profiles and computers. I've been using Foxmarks with Firefox for quite awhile now, and it works perfectly. All my bookmarks, on every computer I use, on each Firefox profile (one for home and one for work.) Recently, they updated the Foxmarks plug-in to include Safari, and started changing the name to Xmarks. So now, bookmarks on Safari and Firefox on each of my computers stay in sync. I hadn't used Flock in awhile, but I fired it up today just because I missed it. As usual, I surfed over to Foxmarks to see if they supported Flock yet. And they do! So, now the bookmarks on Firefox, Safari, and Flock are all in sync--on every computer I use. Nirvana. If you don't know what Flock is, check it out. It's basically Firefox on Social Media Steroids. Drag and drop photos, write blog posts, upload photos, etc... All in the browser. Talk about a happy Friday.
Blogged with the Flock Browser

Entourage, Exchange, and a Proxy

Entourage, Exchange Server, Proxy   Our network uses a proxy server... I have my mac set up to use that proxy, with all the appropriate IP addresses and servers in the exception list. Recently, we migrated to different exchange servers, and I updated the server details in Exchange appropriately. I immediately started having problems with Entourage--sometimes it wouldn’t send an email (would give me an error and put the message in my drafts folder--resending the message would work.) Sometimes it wouldn’t receive new emails unless I quit Entourage and started it back up again. Our IT department doesn’t officially support Mac, so their answer to me was to use Citrix to check my email. That works, of course, but it’s a pain dealing with attachments, and I really like Entourage 2008.   I’m not sure why it took me so long to think of this, but it finally dawned on me to add the three servers (Exchange server, public folders server, and LDAP server) to the proxy exception list in my Mac’s network settings. So far, it seems to have fixed the problem.   It seems like that should’ve been obvious to me, but it wasn’t, so I’m posting this just in case it wasn’t immediately obvious to someone else dealing with the same Exchange/Entourage headaches.