I have a stone in my shoe. The now-daily outcry of “abuse” of EA employees, which was instigated by the wife of an EA employee. It’s almost as annoying as being governor-less and finding “new lost” ballots on a daily basis, knowing that even if mine is found, it won’t count because of a registration snafu… I’ve had quite enough of the “EA Scandal”, especially when it’s not a scandal in the first place. Ah, Holiday cheer indeed!
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MSN Toolbar
I’m not sure when it became a must have killer app, but it seems that the press thinks it is – so do software companies, seeing as everyone is working on a searching product lately. As such, there is a beta of the new MSN Toolbar available and while a lot of people seem to like it, there is one universal complaint: why do I need this [insert descriptive vulgar term here] butterfly button on my Desktop bar?
You don’t – keep reading for a registry hack – found on Channel 9 – to remove all the buttons from your Desktop bar.
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Xbox Live Tip + Motorola HS820 Bluetooth Headset Review
Did you know that Xbox Live uses a 2.5mm headphone jack? The same jack that many cell phones use? I didn’t until recently, but it’s true. I even found a pretty good one to use -one that doesn’t have the boom arm. I originally bought it for my AudioVox SMT5600, but since it dropped a few calls – the biggest reason for getting rid of the Motorola MPx200 in the first place – I decided to chuck it all for a Bluetooth headset, which freed up the extra hands-free kit…
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You Are Here
I was sitting in the whirlpool at the gym today, grousing over the fact that for all the places selling digital media no one offers a miniSD card – lots of CF, SD, MMC, xD, and Media Sticks though – and had an enigma pop into my head: how did I get here?
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Another Candidate for State Number 51?
Reuters: Cuban Defense Minister Raul Castro warned the United States on Tuesday not to repeat its mistakes in Vietnam and Iraq by invading Cuba because its armed forces and civilian population were ready to resist.
Um, why would we want them? I mean, has someone been circulating a rumor that we’re planning to sack Cuba? Did I miss another memo? If anything, I would think that Raul would be asking us if we are going to lift our cigar sanction on his nation – not attempting to taunting us into a new offensive, by telling us that they’re ready to defend themselves… I just don’t get it.
Drive-By Multching
Jalopnik:A 37-year-old man, who had just thrown two Molotov cocktails at his ex-girlfriend’s apartment building, was arrested while attempting to flee on a riding lawnmower, according to the Boston Globe.
Um. Riiiiight.
Resolutions of Many Kinds
A Monday Recap! I finally fixed my MPx200 problems: got an AudioVox SMT5600. Also fixed my music woes: WinAMP and iTunes both helped. Side stepped an inner fear: stayed in an MRI machine for more than five seconds… of course, with all the good stuffs, I now wonder if I’ll have more phone problems, an exploding iPod and a misread from the MRI scans in a backlash or something…
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Behold, the Power of Marketing
Trixie‘s: Either the power of marketing or the power of Tiffany’s… or both.
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The Quest for an iPod Replacement
You heard me. I need something to replace my iPod at work… I have a computer that is more than capable of playing music, so why not use it? Why keep lugging a portable MP3 player to and from work everyday, when there’s a PC there? It’s not like I take the iPod with me from office to office – it sits in its Dock and never comes off AC power… that can’t be good for it, yet I need music, so how can I get by without an iPod?
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iPod Shame
When I was a kid, I never did well in school. I never saw much of a point to it, in all honesty – to me, grade school was pass or fail. Of course, that never helped to ease the pangs of anxiety that I felt when I knew I bombed a test or a project. I’m sure you know the feeling: that deep empty hole that opens in your stomach and you feel like you’ve been stuck in zero gravity for a long period of time… it’s the same feeling you get when you step out of your apartment and you realize that you are locked out, without a key. It’s the same feeling that you should get when you get caught with something toxic on your iPod.
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Surreality
On the road for Thanksgiving: back to the hometown, the land of Dunkin’ Donuts. The coffee still tastes good, but were it not for the license in my wallet, I would have thought that the last five months were just an illusion.
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SharpMT and Pocket SharpMT 2.6
This unexpected, unplanned, and un-beta-tested release comes to you with a bunch of TypePad related tweaks and a new TypePad feature.
Download SharpMT 2.6: EXE | MSI
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Benched NBA Players
I usually have very, very little interest in the NBA. I find watching basketball to be boring – every 3.5 seconds, there’s a game stop for some reason… I think it would be better if they removed the foul system and allowed full contact. Although that would make it an ice-less version of hockey, I guess. Anyway, I do wonder if fouling a fan impacts your foul count.
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Old Friends
Nothing quite like seeing old friends making the Sunday paper! Steve Dallas makes an appearance in Opus this week. As a long time fan of Bloom County – and I mean from day one fan – it’s good to see characters like Bill the Cat and Steve making cameos. Maybe there’s some hope that Cutter John and the Starship Enterpoop or even the Banana Jr. 6000 might some day resurface, but I doubt that would happen… and dammit, I miss Milo.
Then again, there was a Billy and the Boingers reference a couple of weeks ago, so I guess anything is possible!
Service Restored… Sorta
Three attempts later and the site is back up and running. The first attempt was trial. The second attempt was error (had to delete the blog and start over – first I got confused and then TypePad did). The third attempt is what you see here and I’m pretty satisfied with it.
Most everything is back to form except for links between posts – I tried, but some are pointing to the wrong locations but I doubt anyone cares… basically MT took this last opportunity to screw me: it dupicated a bunch of posts and I didn’t notice until it was too late to deal with it. Also the RSS feed URL’s have changed so please update your readers. Software downloads and their FAQ’s are in the same location. The site also seems zippier now… aside from that, if you find any broken pictures, links or truely ugly issues, please leave me a note!