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Hacking Away at Slides Music
the sea of waking dreams: A Sarah McLachlan Website. Spent the day hacking away at a UIEvolution strategy piece. Been a long time since I’ve just hacked slides and thought about things. Thank goodness for multimedia in Windows. Been listening to some old songs, cranked up as there is basically no one in the office.…
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Multiple Windows on One Machine
What a pain it is to have various incompatible versions of Windows around. Although there are an incredible number of compatibility hacks, the fact remains that even in my house, I have at least five programs and a scanner that won’t boot on Windows XP. So, I’m off to look for multiple Windows on a…
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CD Copy Protection
Fat Chuck’s – Corrupt CDs News. I hit my first copy protected CD today. It’s SHeDAISY’s Brand New Year and can’t playback on lots of my PC at work, but interestingly does seems to rip OK on a Lite-on CD-RW, so it is not clear where the compatibility is. It is amazing that the record…
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Shopping Sites
tantek/log/2002/12. Tantek notes the new Froogle search site which is Google applied specifically to home shopping. Personally, I’ve found Pricegrabber followed by Half and eBay search to be the most useful way now.
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Lord of the Rings: Yes!!!!!!!!
[brad choate dot com] The Two Towers and lowMag.net’s loves it too. I haven’t seen such an incredible movie in a long time. We went with the other Geek Fishermen and I can only report that is was an amazing experience. Not just Gollum mind you, but the scenary, the battlescenes. It was just amazing…
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Rich's Heroes
CNNSI.com – 2002 Sportsman of the Year – Lance Armstrong. I’m sure he is heroes to millions of people, so I’ll just have to add my name to the list. Just finished reading the Sports Illustrated article on him that went with the Sportsman of the Year award. Who could not admire his dedication. Get…
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Camera Brain Lock
Photo.Net. Wow, this is an incredible site with really great information. For instance, Camera Equipment Forum – Advice for beginners threads and Building an SLR system. I can’t stand the fact that picture quality on point and shoot cameras is so poor. Here are two good guides to getting into photography with 35mm SLR cameras.…
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Santa Cruz Blur
Santa Cruz BlurBeen lusting for a mountain bike. This is the current one I’ve been eyeing. Also studying the Specialized Epic and maybe the new Klein Quantum based on the Turner Monolink. Reviews 2003 Santa Cruz Blur Reviews. The folks on mtbr continue to rave. 2002 Full Suspension Santa Cruz Blur Product Reviews Santa Cruz…
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Old programmer wakes up
download : vim online. I’ve been reliving my past and one of my favorites editors was vi on Unix. Thank goodness they now have it on the PC. I’m literally remember keystrokes I haven’t typed in 15 years.
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The Final Days
Information Letter 14. This memo by John Walker was one of my touchstones more than a decade ago. Written in 1991, it talks about the quaint Eighties. It’s amazing to me how much changes with the Internet and how in many ways nothing changed. I rate this a must read for everyone. Actually, his whole…