Xmind Is A Great Rapid Mind-Mapper And Diagram Tool

I have used a ton of different mind-mapping, flow-charting and graphing applications on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X and they all have specific positives and negatives. The ones that are the most complex also tend to be the slowest to rapidly diagram with but have the most features to really enable complex rendering.
Xmind (http://www.xmind.net) [...]

Wonderful Visit to The Fisher Art Gallery During PSPP 2010

Was lucky enough to be able to view the Fisher Art Gallery at the Gap Headquarters in San Francisco during the opening session of the PSPP2010 Conference. I believe the art currently there will be moving to the SF MOMA and I believe this is just a small sampling of the larger collection they have. [...]

Planting done. Time for nap.

Planting done. Time for a nap. Long multiple month process and we got some trees in the neighborhood so I am very happy.

Tree Planting in Miraloma Park and Sunnyside Today!

FUF augered the holes and we have 35 trees going in. Less that I had hoped, but still okay I suppose. Still it will be 35 more trees in San Francisco than there were before.
Party @ the MPIC with the Spring BBQ after planting is done. We are bringing cupcakes and lots of wine.

Symantec BackupExec 2010, RALUS and Centos 5 Works

Whew, what a pain this has been.
Always had a heck of a time with BackupExec 12.5 and below backing up CentOS versions. I think early versions of RALUS were operational and worked back in the BackupExec 8-10.5 days prior to Symantec’s acquistion of Veritas. But, it has never been really easy to get this going [...]