I’ve been running an application on my home Win7 PC for the past month called SetPower.  As the name hints, it is a power management application.  I know what you are thinking, Win7 and most other modern operating systems already have power management built in.  SetPower expands the power scheme scheduling on a Windows PC [...]

In exactly 8 days, a little over a week, I will be celebrating my 13th anniversary of working at Flexemacressoshield. I have technically worked for the same company since graduating from college. Technically, since it no longer is the same company I started working for back in 1997.
It’s been sold, divested, [...]

I have been exposed to the GTD – “Getting Things Done” inbox folders a couple of years ago, but I wanted to get the foundation behind the principles themselves.  So, for my first ebook on the Nook, I purchased Getting Things Done by David Allen.
I spent a part of today implementing the GTD folders for my inbox [...]

I finally did it.  And it took three months this time.  What did I do you ask?  I invested in an eBook reader.  Which eBook reader?  Barnes and Noble’s Nook.  The first words that came to mind when the Nook was announced in October of last year were “Wow, that’s nicer than a Kindle.  I [...]

The IT Gods were not smiling down at me yesterday.  I’ve must have offended technology this past weekend, as yesterday was one of the worst days for system issues I’ve had  in a long time.  Server infrastructure that had been very reliable had issues, I had a system with a corrupted file system, unresponsive VMware [...]

I was as happy as I could be with the birth of the oldest of my two sons. Delivered via c-section, he was a healthy baby. I cannot believe its been that long since he first came into this world, but then again in some ways, it seemed just like yesterday.
Happy Birthday Brenden!

I admit it, I am a gadget geek.  I have had the latest in gadget tech –  the 1st gen iPhone, the HP iPaq 3630, a Samsung Blackjack, a Palm pilot, a HP 48GX calculator, iPhone color, the list goes on and on.  I watched the epic 22 minute MSDN Channel 9 video on the [...]

Well, I have spent most of today updating the layout and functionality of this site.  I have just now updated my DNS settings and made this site live.  If you were looking for the Tumblr site, you can still access it here.  For now, the Tumblr site will stay live, but it is very likely [...]

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone!  I actually saw someone abbreviate “Valentine’s Day” in a post, and it looked wrong… Happy V.D.!
Anyway, Wikipedia has an detailed account of the history of St. Valentine’s Day and its practices, for those interested in such things

Hello and welcome to the new web site home for Yamagata.net.  Please bear with me as I update things around here; don’t be surprised if you come back and everything is different!
If you like something you see, please leave a comment.  If you hate something… well, I guess I want to hear about that too. [...]