Renaissance Man

Christmas Toys


Well Christmas (and more specifically, my wife) brought another wonderful toy for me this year. A new Canon Digital Rebel XT digital SLR camera. Suffice it to say that there will likely be more photo related info posted to the blog in the coming months. However I also got 8 rolls of 35mm film in […]

Dave Winer writes that he likes everything about Magnatune in response to this Techcrunch article about their business model. Sure they might not have any big artists in their stable, but I’m not sure they will have to. I found out about Magnatune months ago and have browsed it several times mostly looking for soundtrack […]

Well here I was thinking that the inventor of Python wouldn’t necessarily need any extra income… of course was he really the inventor…maybe I should be checking the edit history of his wikipedia page..

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This whole wikipedia self-auto-bio-egotistical editing thing is really getting annoying. People are editing their own bio pages (gasp!). People are blogging about how they would never edit their own bio pages (double-gasp!) My gawd, how the hell is 12yr old Johnny supposed to use Wikipedia to complete his science project on dinosaurs if it’s […]

This ascii movie is cool…er…retro-cool….

I’m experimenting with NewsGator Online right now. Currently I use Bloglines for the bulk of my blog reading. However I am not averse to switching. I’ve imported my Bloglines […]

So I’ve got my bookmarks back. I’ve got my bookmarks toolbar folder back in working condition (there was an empty dummy copy of this folder somehow created which screwed things up.) However I’m still puzzled as to why the changes I make to my toolbar buttons do not take. So if I add the ‘Add […]

Evan Williams points out the new Firefox extension from Google that uses blogsearch to show you the latest things other people are writing about what it is you’re currently reading. I’m giving it a try (even as I type this […]

Okay, I’ve managed to import a bookmarks folder that I saved a month or so ago. But what seems weird is that I can’t seem to add anything to my bookmarks toolbar folder. When I open up the bookmark manager there is a duplicate entry for ‘Bookmark Toolbar Folder’ that I can’t seem to […]

What a wonderful morning. I come in to work and fire up Firefox and lo and behold all my customizations are gone!! No bookmarks, no live bookmarks, no bookmark toolbar visible and when I make the toolbar visible it is, of course, empty. All my bookmark keyword customizations are gone! The funny thing is that […]