Archive for February, 2006

Monday, February 27th, 2006

more stupid itunes

Ah, another week, another dot release for itunes. Each week as I go through the update process I wonder the same things: Why do I have to download 40mb of executable every time I go through this stupid process? Why can’t Apple have inline product updates like so many other pieces of software? If opensource [...]

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Monday, February 27th, 2006

gmail drive

viksoe.dk – GMail Drive shell extension This is way too cool. A tiny shell extension for Windows XP that lets you use your gmail account as a disk drive. It shows up on the “Send to” menu when you right click a file. It also shows up as a drive from “My Computer”. It looks [...]

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Sunday, February 26th, 2006

Old Standby

One of my favorite excuses from the kids, and one I’ve admitted using in jest as an adult, is of the form: “Are you splashing around in there?”“No! The water is splashing.”

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Sunday, February 26th, 2006

So I Married an Axe Murderer

I don’t know what’s stranger; that our TiVo records every showing of “So I Married an Axe Murderer” that comes on, or that it’s on like a dozen times a week.

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Saturday, February 25th, 2006

As Prince says

What do we own except the right to crawl?

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Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

What a load of crap

It’s always interesting to see how you can change a question in the way you phrase it. Tonight I was doing a phone poll about various things, starting with “Do you think George Bush is doing a good job?” or something like that. Later on, one of the questions was, “Do you support freedom of [...]

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Thursday, February 16th, 2006

Early Morning Conversation

Cassandra and I were talking about something and Jane chimed in, halfway through. “What are you guys talking about?”“We’re trying to decide where to leave you after school.”, I said. It was apparently too early in the morning for joking because she got very sad and started to pout a little, “You can’t just LEAVE [...]

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Tuesday, February 14th, 2006

Windows Utility

Can anyone recommend a good multiple clipboard utility? Something that records everything I sent to the clipboard and lets me access them in the future. Right now I’m using Clipboard Recorder, which I like the UI for but it has a very annoying limitation. Once it reaches the max number of remembered items, it stops [...]

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Monday, February 6th, 2006

Bookmarks Begone

I’ve just deleted my 500+ bookmarks, 10 or so years worth of things I found and probably never looked at again. :) But for the last 2 or 3 years, I’ve relied almost solely on google to find what I want. And for the last year or so, anything I might want to remember gets [...]

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Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

Hey McAfee

Bite me. Take your IE requirement and shove it. I’m not violently anti-IE like some,  it just doesn’t offer the kind of browsing experience I want. But to be honest, I can’t remember the last time I visited a site that required me to use IE. So for forcing me to fire up IE to [...]

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