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The next elections for the LOPSA Board of Directors is next week!

Please review my candidate statement, and please vote for me if you are a current member of LOPSA. At the very least, vote!

So, as mentioned in a recent post, I relocated for a job. Well, I relocated for complex reasons, but it was initiated by a job offer. As mentioned in a previous post, I now work for D. E. Shaw Research, LLC in Endicott, NY. We relocated the farm operation to Brackney, PA just over the NY/PA border.

The hauling of stuff, animals, and people is complete, but there is much work left in unpacking and re-organizing everything from normal daily life to animal care-taking.

I usually use MarsEdit for posting to this and other blogs, but that means I always have to log into the web GUI and manually tell the Drupal Twitter module to send a notice of a new post.

After digging around for a short bit, I discovered that I might be able to automagically do this with Drupal Triggers.

This post is a test of that functionality while posting via the web GUI.

Thank you for reading this non-emergency broadcast test.

For everyone who, like me, got excited that I was actually posting... Okay, for those few who read my recent postings and finally got interested, I am in the process of packing up my farm and moving almost 900 miles. This process will be complete in the first week of June.

I've heard the mind mapping term tossed about here and there for years, but I never really understood how it differed from plain old brainstorming from the days of yore. I felt my storming mind needed a little orderly mapping, and below I outline how that process unfolded.

In my Twitter vs. Productivity entry (published mere minutes before this one), I outlined how I tweaked my Twitter usage to use the tool more effectively.

For five months now I've hardly read the Twitter stream of those I follow on the service. Also, I rarely tweet on anything except when my blog software sends a notice of a new post (via the Drupal Twitter Module), much like the automation on most news service Twitter accounts. I've been enormously productive.

Tom Limoncelli of The Practice of System and Network Administration (TPOSANA) and Time Management for System Administrators (TMfSA) fame recently wrote a provocative blog entry called

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