I’ve seen references to the Society of Geek Advancement for several months but haven’t been motivated to mention it until tonight when I saw Peter Black post this same video on his blog.
Initially I wasn’t really sure what the “I am a Geek” thing was all about, but reading into this a bit further, it appears that the motives behind the movement are several fold.
According to the Society for Geek Advancement about page:
“THE SOCIETY FOR GEEK ADVANCEMENT was founded upon the principles that we should all embrace our inner and …

My experiences with both Seesmic and Twitter this morning have once again reinforced my overwhelmingly positive attitude towards the services – and in particular the enthusiastic and giving community of users that have embraced them.
For the last couple of weeks I’ve been plagued by an irritating computer issue in which use of apostrophes and double quotes was producing foreign language characters like é, ý, ç and í. For the life of me I just could not determine how to resolve it.
In what felt like a desperate ploy …

Call me an uber geek, but I just finished setting up Compiz on my Ubuntu box tonight and wanted to share a screencast of where I’m at so far. Compiz is a brilliant piece of work that I highly recommend taking a look at. It definitely keeps things visually stimulating.

I’ve written this post as both a personal journal and roadmap, as well as to discuss our activities in use of educational and/or other technologies to facilitate the learning experiences of our 4-year old.
My daughter (nearly 4 years old) has grown up with a father who is glued to technology for ridiculous amounts of time each day – be this a desktop, laptop, iPod, mobile phone, digital camera, web camera, or myriad of different software packages and operating systems.  Not surprisingly she has developed an acute interest in exploring these …

This evening I discovered that VMware has a free virtual machine player for Windows and spent some time setting things up. One thing lead to another and I found myself putting together a two-part tutorial series on how to set it up.
Part One: Overview of Virtualization and Installing the VMware Player

Part Two: Setting up a Virtual Machine

I’ll expand on this more tomorrow, but it’s late now.
In the meantime here are the links referenced in the videos:
VMware Player: http://www.vmware.com/products/player
Appliance Library: http://www.vmware.com/appliances