Seriously trivial thoughts
First, how did I do with my 2008 predictions? My 2008 Predictions 1. Housing will not recover in 2008. Right on 2. Gasoline will be $4/gallon and stay there. 1/2 right 3. Oil will stay over $100 barrel for most of the year. Check, altho I dived late. 4. The market will take a huge …
Well, I think I’ve been able to reasonably migrate from Community Server (CS) to WordPress. I lost some comments and forums, but I’ll try to archive so they are safe in some form. Since WordPress doesn’t have an automated way to move a CS blog, I basically converted the CS blog posts to a LiveJournal …
For the first time in my techlife, I’m seriously considering shutting down my webserver. It just seems like an awful lot of money to spend on something that few people access…well other than myself. TwitKu.com was fun, but with the departure of Pownce and the decline of Jaiku, it seems unnecessary. My personal page, which …
It took me a while to figure out what was causing it, but I finally figured out that if I disconnected my iPod Touch while my PC was in standby mode, I would get the blue screen of death. I'm running Windows Vista and don't know if it would happen with other versions of Windows. …
Received an email from Amazon with the title: Accessorize Your Amazon.com Xbox 360 Live 12 Month Gold Card plus 1 Month Bonus Purchase How do you “accessorize” what is essentially a gift card??? What were there suggestions? Basically Xbox 360 stuff.
The one thing I REALLY miss with Google Chrome is the lack of mouse gesture support. StrokeIt appears to solve the problem. Basically, StrokeIt adds mouse gestures for any Windows application.� First I had to delete the default Global Actions for Up and Down. Then I added new actions and associated them with the proper …
I connect remotely to my PC and often wished I could see my disk activity. I did a little searching and stumbled upon DriveGLEAM. Among many things it will indicate read/write activity for your hard drives in the system tray. I also enabled the memory usage indicator. By default it shows separate icons for monitornig …
HDMI is a crazy standard. After hooking up my AV receiver to my new LCD flat panel via HDMI, you would think that everything connected to my receiver would play perfectly, right? From my cablebox’s component output all the way down to my aging standard def digital recorder. Well, no go. The ONLY thing that …
iTunes FINALLY got around to posting a couple of my band Mind Game’s songs. They are also on Rhapsody, Napster and eMusic. Hope they don’t bog down the servers…HAHAHA
