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How to: Be an effective Gatekeeper

Information overload. It’s a scary term for us in the Age of Information and it’s a lot closer than you think. Without proper caution, it’s incredibly easy to lose yourself in the torrent of constant information. The good news is that it’s very preventable. With the adequate gatekeeping, you can keep your mind out of the swift currents leading to meltdown and into perpetual sanity.

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How to: Build and Extend a WordPress Lifestream

I recently used the wp-Lifestream plugin to add a lifestream to my blog. A lifestream is essentially an amalgamation of all the information one generates across the various social networks—a stream of your life, if you will. This plugin is great and works fantastically. It even has a framework for extending it to sites that aren’t already programmed into it. I used this framework to extend it to two additional sites I use: Readernaut and ScrnShots. This is the article on how to extend wp-Lifestream.

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How to: Introduction to Splunk Indexing

Recently, I was tasked with sending a log to Splunk—a web application that indexes syslogs for easy searching. This log was coming from a custom web application we run to do null routing and other network tasks. I didn’t find much meaningful documentation so I decided to write an introduction for people who find themselves in the same situation.

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