For the past hour, I’ve been trying to find a way to update Street Static without having to access it directly.  Doing my research, I stumbled across a convenient Firefox extension called Deepest Sender.  It allows you to post to your blog directly from Firefox.  This is convenient for a variety of reasons, especially if [...]

As many of you know, I’m headed to China tomorrow to work at the Olympic Games.  And while my job there carries some restrictions, in terms of what I can and cannot write here, I’ll do my best to update Street Static in order to give a first hand account about how things are fairing [...]

A great habit that’s come about as a result of my increased travel is the creation of trip specific packing lists.  I started doing this during freshman year in college, when I would head home for the weekend.  I’d get out a sheet, and write down each item I needed/wanted to bring home.  At first, [...]

For the uninitiated, GTD stands for ‘Getting Things Done’, and is a system to organize and complete tasks.  Too often, I find myself paralyzed by the sheer amount of work I have to get done, and end up doing nothing.  And so I decided to implement a GTD system that uses Moleskines, in order to [...]

Having a portable dictionary on hand is essential for anyone traveling to a foreign county.  After searching for homebrew dictionary solutions for the Nintendo DS, I managed to stumble across a nice little application called NewDictS that utilizes open source StarDicts.  Using your NDS and a flash card, it’s possible to have all sorts of [...]

So my inner geek has been unleashed this past week for a few reasons.  First of all, I managed to port my webmail servers over to Google using Google Apps.  This means that Google handles all my incoming mail for my domain (alutz.com).  It also includes the slick Gmail interface, as well as Spam protection.  [...]

It’s not often that I put off finishing a series.  It’s especially hard to do this with a quality production like Band of Brothers.  However, as the 4th of July approached last weekend, I decided to wait and watch the final two parts of this ten-part series on Independence Day.  I admit, I’ll often try [...]