Unquiet Desperation

The Mahalo gaming team has been hard at work, pulling together items for your GTA pleasure:

• GTA 4 Cheats
• GTA 4 Walkthrough

Earlier today, I tweeted a question to anyone following me on twitter. “Looking for a good book on Linux Administration: Any suggestions?” Thankfully, the Linux Journal (follow here) picked up my plaintive cry and re-tweeted me to their entire following. Here are the recommendations I received:

• Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition (from minitotoro and chigh): this one is pretty good although a little bit dated
• Linux Complete Command Reference (via TheeCodePoet): has saved my life more times than I can count.
• Linux Administration Handbook (2nd Edition) (via xtine and jtollert): Both said this was a good one, and a great help.

I’m also looking at Linux System Administration, First Edition from O’Reilly. So far, they’ve never let me down.

Any input from you folks? What should I be reading to better understand Linux?

photo credit: PrASanGaM

Kris Johnson and I have been meeting every morning at a local coffeeshop to get in an hour of writing every day before work. So far, so good…sort of. We’re both struggling with focus at the moment, and I’m starting to wonder if a café with free wifi was such a smart move. Discipline will demand that I turn off the wireless when I’m there, and so, that’s my plan for next week.

I’ve gotten about a thousand words written this week, which is not bad, considering I’ve been getting zero. Most of my writing has been taking place in a new program that I picked up as part of the most recent MacUpdate Bundle, called Storymill. Frankly, I’m really digging it. I’ll post a review on it once I know the program a little better.

Now…because Jared Axlerod has been encouraging me to blog about my progress, I’m going to subject you to some of the writing I got done this morning. It is, frankly, crap. However, I’m trying to be open and honest here, so I’ll beg your kind tolerance.

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Mozilla has added Mahalo Share to their list of recommended add-ons: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/recommended

What does this mean? It means that out of about 7000 add-ons, Mahalo Share has been chosen by the Mozilla editors as one that improves the Web experience and would be useful to a majority of Firefox users. It will be featured periodically on the front page of addons.mozilla.org, which receives about 5 million pageviews per day, as well as inside the Add-ons dialog of Firefox 3.

For those who don’t know, Mahalo Share allows you to easily share and recommend links across twelve different bookmarking and blogging services. Download link: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6396

What’s the big deal?  Well…if you are on Firefox and install the Operator toolbar, you’ll be able to see metadata about the subjects that you can use in other programs. For example, on the Paris Hotels page, you can export the contact information for any of the hotel directly to your address book for use later thanks to the hCard microformat.

You might remember that we added a few [[[microformats]]] to the Profile pages in Februrary. This is another step in that direction. The goal is to allow you to take the information with you whenever we are able.

Looking for a good how-to on importing the data? See Sean Percival’s blog post.