Best Buy purchases Speakeasy, WTF

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Best Buy has purchased speakeasy? What an odd marriage. Does this mean that when you call Speakeasy support you get the Geek Squad, ugh. I, like other nerds of my ilk, have long appreciated Speakeasy’s Terms of Service and knowledgeable approach. I hope they can stay independent enough to keep to their ideals.

Here is the press release that went out:

MacBook Pro Justification

The time are a changin’ and now the reasons for bringing Intel based Macs into an organization are very compelling. I had an opportunity to get new laptops for some of my network engineers and was initially rebuffed by finance when I suggested MacBook Pros. So I have included here an excerpt of the justification document that I sent to them. Keep in mind that I work at a Fortune 500, so some of the reasoning may not apply.

Introduction

There have been some questions as to what the appropriate laptop standard for a Network Engineer should be. This brief overview aims to answer questions regarding the benefits the new Intel based Macbook Pro laptops afford us.

OS X provides a unix-based platform, which is the underlying architecture for most network devices. With the release of the new Intel based system it gives one access to not only OS X and Unix based tools, but allows for other operating systems to run natively on the system, including Free BSD and Solaris.

Using TextMate Blogging Plugin with WordPress

I was having issues getting the TextMate Blogging plugin working with WordPress, and I didn’t see any explicit directions for making it work with blogs actually hosted by WordPress so I figured I would post the tip for the wayward TextMate explorer.

The correct URL to use in the “Set Up Blogs” document http://<username>@<blogname>.wordpress.com/xmlrpc.php. Not too complicated, but the example inserts a /blog/ in there that makes those who over-think things (who are you looking at) confused.