Kyle Ohme — In the life of a dot com

If you love technology and hacking everything you own, check out this little quick project.  Here you will find the scripts and tools it takes to mod / hack your wii-mote so you can use it on your mediacenter (no hacking required).

Thanks to this project and the information located on http://www.wisave.com/news/ you can use your wii-mote to control your Vista Mediacenter.

The Script can be found here

You will also need (http://www.wiili.org)
* GlovePIE version 2.4
* A Wiimote
* A Bluetooth enabled PC running Windows 2000 or XP.
* DirectX 8.0

You can also check out a video of it here.

Can I become a happier person with better time management?

Wow - Recently I have really felt the pinch of time.  I have lists and lists multiple pages and tablets deep that acquire new tasks faster than I can remove them.

I am a list person - I have lists for things I need to do today, this week, month and year.  I have lists breaking my day down by how long I expect the task to take so I can fit it into a time slot when I have a free moment.  I have systems to determine long term goals and dependent tasks. I have lists created for things I must pick up next time I go to the store grouped by how close the stores are and what time I have available. I have sliced and diced things so many ways in search for the perfect solution more times than I can count. Excessive – possibly .. but our success is so often tied to time. Success of a relationship, carrier, friendship and overall wellbeing.

I have been working on a better overall time management involving breaking down my time into “goals” first. Picking three goals from my overall yearly goals (work related) … Breaking the goals down into objectives .. breaking the objectives into milestones and breaking the milestones back into tasks. In the mean time I am also using the Drucker time management assessment process for the next three weeks to better align my time with my tasks. You can find more info about Drucker here http://www.friendly-ware.com/dtm/whyShldCr.htm

Time management is not a new concept to me or will this be my last attempt to find a better model.

Peter Drucker “The output limits of any process are set by the scarcest resource. In the process we call “accomplishment”, this is time … Of the other major resources, money is actually quite plentiful … People … one can hire. But one cannot rent, hire, buy or otherwise obtain more time.”

More to come …

The Secunia PSI detects installed software and categorizes your software as either Insecure, End-of-Life, or Up-To-Date. Effectively enabling you to focus your attention on software installations where more secure versions are available from the vendors.

I had a friend of mine send this over to me after we talked briefly about a potential security issue.  It seems like a great tool.  The tool is still in beta form but worth taking a look at. 

Secunia offers the following:
* On Line Inspection
* Personal
* Network

We are currently running a test on an old test box to see how well it does.  I will post the results when it completes.

Thanks Bartosz!

Personal Software Inspector (PSI) - Secunia

  Ummmmm beerrrrr.

Welcome Beer Friday!

So I’m sitting behind my desk right now with a Moose Head in my hand reflecting back on the week and scrambling to get a few things off of my plate before the weekend. Last week was the first day of Beer Friday – a portion of the day sliced up and set aside to hang out and talk about projects and up and coming ideas. (Yes Rob, We know =)  Happy hour is great but lack of white boards, pressing schedules and other distractions results in less productive beer time.  Besides, who wants to take Friday off now? 

We joked last week this was probably the fastest we have implemented a policy change in our history of a company. I of course welcome the change and look forward to talking to everyone about our next big idea. (Come on, it involves beer!)

So far? All I hear around the office is “drinking beer, cant get much better” – Brad =)

Stay tuned!

Just for fun …

(Sung to the tune of Doe, a deer)
Doh!…the stuff that buys me beer
Ray, the guy who sells me beer
Me, the one who drinks the beer
Far, a long run to get beer
So, I’ll have another beer
La…I’ll have another beer
Tea, no thanks I’m drinking beer
Which will bring us back to Doh!

More fun Simpsons fun:
http://quotations.about.com/od/funnymovieandtvquotes/a/simpsonsM.htm
http://homers-beer-run.freeonlinegames.com/