So the rumor mill is that Scoble is leaving Microsoft.  If true, this can only be good for Scoble and very bad for Microsoft as he seems to be the public face of Microsoft to the blogosphere and should probably be paid a lot more than he does at MS.  Personally I have no idea how much he gets paid, but from his his posts over the years, I don’t think it is that much.  Interesting that the rumor is he is going to Podtech.net.  He could be a huge asset for any company at this juncture, as he gets people conversing.  Robert, if this is true, I wish you the best of luck.

Just read scobles site before posting.  Looks like the rumors are true.

[tags]Microsoft, Robert Scoble, Scoble, Podtech, startup, Silicon Valley[/tags]

Happy Anniversary to my wife of four years.  No postings today or this evening.  Taking the wife out on a date.

[tags]Anniversary, Wife, Marriage[/tags]

So google came out with the “Google Browser Sync” today.  Great Idea, sync bookmarks and settings across multiple computers.  One feature that needs to be added is to be able to sync extensions across multiple computers.

You could just use Portable Firefox and take your browser with you where ever you go.
[tags]Firefox, Google, Browser, Browser Sync, Google Browser Sync, Portable Firefox, Portable Apps, GTD[/tags]

Eric Rice is hosting vloggercon in secondlife in conjunction with Vloggercon.

So all you aspirin Vloggers that can’t make it out to Vloggercon, checkout Vloggercon in SecondLife, sponsored by Hipcast.

[tags]Eric Rice, Vloggercon, Secondlife, Hipcast, Second Life, Jeff O’Hara, Audioblog, Media, New Media, Podcasting[/tags]

So i’m finally implementing some new WordPress plugins as you can see.  Now I have Sociable installed and you readers can submit any links you feel worthy of submitting to your favorite social news site.  My favorite is digg.  Others are welcomed.

Not sure if I will stick with Sociable as my social bookmark plugin, and i’m definately willing to take any recommendations from readers and give anything a whirl.  Bonus points if you wrote the plugin yourself.

[tags]Sociable, WordPress, wordpress plugins[/tags]

I just downloaded the SimpleTags Plugin.

“SimpleTags is a WordPress plugin that will allow you to easily generate Technorati tags at the bottom of your blog entries. There are several plugins already available for this purpose, but they all require you to use custom fields within WordPress. The SimpleTags plugin eliminates this need, so you can now easily generate tags with your preferred method of posting, be it by email, a blogging tool like w.bloggar or from WordPress itself.”

I needed a simple tagging solution.  Now I have one, do you?
[tags]Word Press, Technorati, SimpleTags, plugins[/tags]

Not having enough savings to retire scares the hell out of me.  I just read on cnn.com that 43% of people will not have enough money when it comes retirement time?

Luckily I think i’m doing a pretty good job at saving for retirement.  If you don’t think you do or are worried, you should start reading the blog, “I will teach you to be rich”.  The blog is not about some get rich quick scheme, it’s articles teach you the slow, smart, tedious way of getting rich.

What are you waiting for, get on over there and start reading.  Make a plan and stick to it.  It is never to late to start saving.

Sitting around the glow of an LCD screen all day long really takes a toll on geeks, especially around our mid sections.Chris Pirillo has a great blog post on weight loss. I lost 30lbs starting 2 years ago over about a 3-4 month period. Basicly I made a lifestyle change, no more fast food, no more sugary drinks, and exercise. I’ve never been a snacker so I really didn’t have to eliminate snacks. If your looking to lose weight, chris’s list is right on the money.

Chris, one more thing though. When drinking water, you should drink ICE water as your body needs to heat the water up to body temperature and it takes more energy, so you burn more calories.

If you don’t already know, I work as a Linux Admin for a School District in the Chicago Suburbs.  Today is are kids last day of school and things are winding down.  Unfortunately I don’t get the summers off like teachers.  I get extremeley jealous of my wife this time of year as she is a Teacher and her last day of work was last wednesday.

Our summers are either completely slow or extremely busy, there is no inbetween on this front.  We either have almost no projects or more projects than we know what to do with.  I have some server upgrades I have to do.  Our desktop techs have 800 computers they are installing and I will probably be brought in to help work on that.  I’m not looking forward to it, as it’s the most computers we’ve installed at any one time in the 7 years that I have worked here.  At least in the summer we don’t have to deal with daily help desk calls as 90% of the staff is off for the summer.  This is when we can get some real work done.

If anybody is learning about marketing for their blog/podcast or small business.

Check out “Managing the Grey” by C.C. Chapman.  Great podcast C.C.