tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30615192026-01-17T07:00:44.936-05:00More than you need to know.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger468125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3061519.post-51329213654045321852007-09-23T20:39:00.001-04:002007-09-24T13:15:36.144-04:00

What if real life meetings had the same politeness standards as comments on the Internet? YouTube has the answer (put on your headphones -- contains NSFW language).

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About two and a half years ago, I proposed that Apple create a tool to track what programs one runs and then reports on what alternatives are available under Mac OS X. Apple ignored me and never realized what a brilliant idea this is. We're half way there now. Wakoopa provides a tool which tracks what you run. Register, download a small application and install. Wakoopa runs in the background and

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The editors at LifeHacker have compiled some of their favorite Firefox extensions for enhancing gmail and put them all together into a single extension called Better Gmail. Of those included, I've been using and loving Gmail Macros for a while.

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I learned today that Google Maps provides transatlantic driving directions. For example, if you choose to drive from Washington, DC to London, England, Google suggests driving to Boston. You navigate to downtown Boston and then: 20. Turn right at Long Wharf 0.1 mi 21. Swim across the Atlantic Ocean 3,462 miles and then continue on

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Space.com has a wonderful article explaining why the vernal equinox can shift and points out that from 1981-2102, Spring will begin no later than March 20. The myth that Spring starts on March 21 must be quashed. People who suggest that should be loudly corrected. On a completely unrelated note, March 20 just happens to be my birthday.

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This is an exploration of solutions. I don't have my perfect solution yet, perhaps somebody will help. The short question is "what's the best way to combine the sound from my ipod and the sounds from my computer into one set of headphones?" Here's the situation: I've got an iPod which I sync with my work computer. When I want to tune out the noise of the office, I currently listen via iTunes.

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Gina Trapani, editor over at lifehacker.com, has been diving deep into cygwin and command line goodness for a while. Earlier this week, she posted an article about customizing the command prompt. I added a comment about my shorter directory path, but I'll replicate here, because I have better control over the formatting of the code (and, I guess, for the people who read me, but not lifehacker):

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I think it's time to try anime. Based on various reviews and the fact that it won an Oscar a few years ago, Spirited Away has been in my list of movies to rent for a long time, but I've never gotten around to renting it. Now ranting tech blogger, Steve Yegge has written a long post about why he likes anime and gives some recommendations. Tags: anime

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"A few days ago I was thinking about doing something good with my life. Instead I decided I would sign up for Wisconsin Ironman."    -- Thus begins my cousin's new blog chronicling his year of preparation for the race on September 9, 2007. Tags: ironman, triathalon

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The Washington Post ran an article a couple weeks back on improving gas mileage. It's written from the point of view of a hybrid driver, but it says that these tips can be used in other vehicles as well. Tags: hybrid, mileage, prius

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3061519.post-1155246793937270132006-08-10T17:47:00.000-04:002006-08-11T09:13:11.750-04:00

It's been a while since I posted and even longer since I posted something just fun and not too techy. But this just cried out for propagation -- a new(-ish) song from Jonathan Coulton (the guy who covered "Baby Got Back" in a nice, easy, banjo-heavy acoustic style): If Hollywood has taught us anything, it’s that being trapped in a mall surrounded by a million zombies would be really troublesome.

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Mark Pilgrim has updated his "essentials" list to reflect his recent switch from Mac to Ubuntu linux ("Ubuntu, which is an ancient African word meaning "can't install Debian".") This is a nice list of useful software (and links to each) for linux. His older list is for mac users. Tags: linux, mac, ubuntu, essentials

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I've been using X1 desktop search since I got a free copy in Oct. 2004. The news of the day is that it's now free for everybody (via LifeHacker). Try it. I like it a lot. Tags: search, x1

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I believe my wife will start to use this when we're driving in unknown areas -- even though I'm usually the driver and she's the navigator.

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Steve Yegge writes about Emacs 22 -- specifically about its internationalization support and its improvements to search and replace by regular expression. He writes: Emacs 22 sports an amazing new editing feature that's had me drooling in anticipation since I first heard about it, maybe six or eight months ago. As you can well imagine, that's a lot of drool. And what might the feature be, you

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There's a rumor that Apple and RIM, creator of the BlackBerry, may be forging a partnership. Speculation is that they might try to build on each other's innate strengths. I use a BlackBerry for a while and was unimpressed. It does "push email" well and wireless sync well, but that’s about it. The basic PIM tools are weaker than what my PalmOS Handspring Visor had 6 years ago and there is

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This week on "Wait Wait -- Don't Tell Me!", the NPR news quiz, host Peter Sagal and soccer expert and radio host Steven Cohen discuss soccer and the World Cup. Sagal's introduction: Those Americans who are watching sports late at night, say, and they can't find any baseball or football or basketball or golf or NASCAR or lacrosse, wrestling, bowling, scrabble, curling, knitting, might find

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has a few things to say on the subject of towels. A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have." Happy Towel Day. Thanks for all the fish good books, Douglas Adams

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It has happened to everybody and will continue to happen, hopefully without too much embarrassment. You have two or more chat windows open and you type something and then realize, after having already hit enter (or the send button) that you typed it to the wrong person. So, I propose that rather than typing out "sorry, wrong window" every time, we standardize on "sww". If I type that to you, now

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"It really is an html frame, with a jpg, of a scan, of a print, of a digital picture, of a print, of a word document, of the information that needs to go on the web." Tags: wtf

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A couple years ago, I wrote about screen. Blogger Bill Clementson recently saw The Light about screen as well and I reviewed my original post. In it, the first link was to a very nice collection of pages maintained by Sven Guckes. For his own reasons, Sven has decided that he could no longer maintain his information pages about screen. After a little probing, I found a couple ways to see what

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In the April Fools day show of Coverville, Brian Ibbott claimed that Blondie's "Call Me" was a cover, originally done as a surf rock instrumental by a group called The Original Onions. While that was a fun gag (and the whole show had some other great psuedo-original versions), I liked the surf rock sound. The mp3s from the now-defunct Original Onions are available for free download under a

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Similar to , a specialized 20 questions game: Guess the Dictator or Sit-Com Character

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Reported many places, a humorous story about fans from U. Cal., Berkeley who played a wonderful prank on an opposing player during a basketball game against USC. This version of the story actually has a post-game interview with the victim and he took it surprisingly well, especially given that apparently rattled him enough during the game that he show only 3 for 13 from the field.

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Human Foosball - looks like fun. Technorati tags: foosball

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