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Cure for Information Overload

As I am sure you are aware, the total sum of knowledge to be learned doubles every 6 months in the online world.  How is somene to keep up?  Well, they finally have a cure for information overload!  Start using it today!

Famous Potatoes?

Living in Idaho whenever I travel people ask me about Idaho potatoes.  They are famous, and they are good, but I honestly don’t know any potato farmers.  If you look in the news in Idaho you see more industry news about high tech companies like Micron then you do about potatoes.  Now State Senator Hal [...]

What Makes You Happy?

Forbes.com has a list of the 12 things that make people happy in one of their slide shows.  Check out the slide show for some more details on each.

Friends
Sex
Socializing
Marriage
Praying
Relative Wealth
Good Health
Genes (Inherited)
Work (Enjoy what you do)
Money (Adequate)
Experiential Activities (Experience over acquisition)
Age (40+)

I thought it was interesting that they separated Friends and Socializing into [...]

Copy & Paste Comic

I write a lot of code as a software developer. It is very common practice to copy code and paste it somewhere else for reuse. The preferred method is to put it in a common method or library that both places reference, but that doesn’t always work.
I have been curious if [...]

Firefly Season 2

If you haven’t seen Serenity or Firefly (or even if you have seen them, and don’t own them yet) yet then go buy the DVDs. After you watch them then complete the Firefly Season 2 survey.

Personally I have no problem paying to watch each episode of Firefly, but the amount [...]

Back to WinAmp

As you most likely know, all the original developers from NullSoft that worked on WinAmp prior to the AOL assimilation left the company a while back. Combine that with the anoyingly slow “modern” skin and a few other anoying features and I finally decided I needed to move on to a different audio player.

Well, [...]

Happy Birthday Mozart

Break out the powdered wigs and put on your classical music. Today is Mozart’s 250th birthday. How are you celebrating?
Subject tags:
[Mozart]
[Classics]
[Birthday]
[Music]

The Future of Serenity

Despite very good reviews, and staying well within budget, Serenity didn’t do so hot in the box office it turns out. All is not lost. Amazon still ranks Serenity as #3 in DVD sales, with Firefly close behind in #5.

As Joss put it:

DVD sales should, however, put Serenity back in the black and [...]

Google Maps Package Mapper

Honestly I think it would be a good idea for Google to provide this as part of their services. Until they do, we can use PackageMapper.com from Oliver Steele. Just enter your tracking number, and it uses SimpleTracking.com’s RSS feed for that tracking number to get the history of where the package has [...]

Moving to WordPress 2.0

I really like WordPress, and the new 2.0 release is sweet. I’ve been slowly moving some of my smaller blogs over to Wordpress 1.5, and I just this week upgraded one of them to Wordpress 2.0. The installs are always so easy (provided the host doesn’t get goofy on me), it is well [...]