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Cory Doctorow - With A Little Help 18 Dec 2010 | 09:24 am
One of my favorite authors, Cory Doctorow, has a new book out titled With A Little Help. As always, Cory FREELY gives away his eBook versions (although you must pay for physical paper versions or audi...
Shure SE315 Headphones Review 6 Nov 2010 | 02:08 am
I'm a big fan of "In Ear", sound-isolating headphones. I've previously owned the Etymotics ER-6, and Shure SE210, SE310, and SE530. All of these headphones have amazing sound reproduction, but the fra...
Kindle / ebook Transcript 4 Nov 2010 | 01:44 am
On the morning of November 2, 2010, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments regarding Schwarzenegger v. EMA. You can read details about this on Wikipedia, but in short, it regards a California law that...
An update, launching mrxvt (or urxvt) 21 Aug 2010 | 03:23 am
The latest Cygwin update seems to have broken how I launch mrxvt... my shortcut no longer worked. I tried countless permutations and nothing helped. After a lot of searching, I found that back on Febr...
Setting jqGrid column width from titles 9 Apr 2010 | 05:49 am
Lately I've been playing a lot with jqGrid, a very nice Grid / Table plugin for jQuery / jQuery UI. It does some really amazing things including allowing you to have a scrollbar that replaces the stan...
Console, Cygwin, and Windows 7 22 Oct 2009 | 01:50 pm
My DOS and Unix roots often show - I like using the command line. On all of my Windows-based systems I have Cygwin installed to provide many of the luxuries of Unix / Linux right from my windows syste...
Amazing Movie, New TV Shows 7 Oct 2009 | 01:17 am
I saw the previews for Zombieland a few weeks ago. It showed some promise, but too many movies show promise and fail to deliver. I am happy to say that Zombieland delivers and in spades. I went to see...
Sad, Yet Thankful 12 Aug 2009 | 06:57 pm
My dad, the best man I know, died this last week. He battled cancer for a couple years and finally it got the best of him, although he put up a good fight. I am thankful for good doctors. Even though...
Foaming Hand Soap 29 Jul 2009 | 01:07 am
I love the foaming hand soap. I don't recall where I used it first but over the last couple years it has become very popular - we use it exclusively at home (we evening use foaming dish soap when we d...
MP3 Tips 12 Jul 2009 | 02:42 am
I am an audiobook lover. I've come up with some steps and software that will aid you on your quest if you're like me and want to enjoy your audiobooks on your iPhone or iPod (most steps apply to liste...
