System Cleanup

Every now and then, your computer - in my case, a Dell Inspiron E510 - will need some TLC. Freeing up disk space and running defrag can go a long way to keeping your system running better. I spent an hour or so yesterday doing some housekeeping and ended up deleting …

An alternative to Nike+

Well, I am nearly two weeks into my walking challenge and so far so good. I've walked a total of 7 times since August 17th, for a total of 8.59 miles and 3,291 calories burned. Considering my lack of activity prior to the 17th, I'd say I'm off to a pretty good start. …

Fantasy Football

For only the second time ever in my life, I'm playing in a Fantasy Football league. 10 of us here at PowerServe thought it'd be fun to see how we'd stack up against each other. We held our Live Draft today, and here's who I ended up with:

dell-support-flash-wtf [Flickr]

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I've created a monster.

My son is going to be a geek. All the signs are there. He loves playing on the computer. He loves stealing my iPod video to listen to music and watch cartoons... The boy loves gadgets. What can I say? I'm a proud papa.

Wordpress 2.3 Beta1

So, a new developmental version of Wordpress was released last night. Being the sucker that I am, I went ahead and upgraded to Wordpress 2.3 Beta1, and to my surprise, everything installed without any problems at all.

I haven't seen a full list of all that's been …

Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem

Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem. I never would have thought they would make another AVP movie. The first AVP wasn't great, but the idea of Predators hunting Aliens is just too darn fun...

Maps for Us

Maps for Us. You too can help save the children and the Iraq and Asian Countries.

Facebook Apps [Flickr]

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Just noticed this new(?) feature on Facebook profiles... You can now quickly access all of the applications installed via icons on your sidebar.

Contribute CS3

So... this is a test post from Adobe Contribute CS3. I'm not impressed...

Chubby? A virus might be to blame.

Chubby? A virus might be to blame. And here I thought I was fat because of my addiction to Jolt and Pringles. How foolish of me...

Yeah... Contextual links... [Flickr]

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Yeah, so Wes was checking out the Nike+ page on my site only to have this ad displayed in the sidebar... According to Amazon... "Omakase links will show an Associate's visitors what they're most likely to buy based on Amazon's unique …

Yahoo Releases ASTRA Flash Components Library

Yahoo Releases ASTRA (ActionScript Toolkit for Rich Applications) Flash Components. (I am continually impressed by all that Yahoo is releasing open-source as of late. The Yahoo Developer Network has some amazing stuff available for web developers. If you haven't checked …

New IE6, IE7 Virtual PC Images Available

New IE6, IE7 Virtual PC Images Available.

In Sync

A while back, I wrote about how I was able to sync Google Calendar events with my iPod using Outlook 2007. Because of various problems I had with Outlook 2007, including data corruption issues caused in part by subscribing to Internet Calendars, I uninstalled the …

The subtle difference between an amateur and a professional

The subtle difference between amateur and professional.

Nike+ - Getting Started

This morning marked my first official walk with Nike+. I have added a new page to the site utilizing widgets from NikePlus.com showing my goals and last 5 runs/walks. Initially, I've set the following goals for myself:

• Walk 100 miles in 16 weeks.


• Walk at least 50 …

Fish Highway

FishHighway. Quite possibly one of the coolest "fish tank accessories". Ever. (via Mental Floss Magazine)

photoshop cs3 performance preferences [Flickr]

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I currently have 3Gb RAM installed on my system... I was letting Photoshop use 55% of available RAM... so I bumped it up to 70% and added a scratch disk (F:\) to see if I could improve performance while working on some larger files...

metoday [Flickr]

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Lack of sleep makes me looked more pissed than I actually am.