I’ve decided to try to learn a bit more piano recently and I’ve been looking for songs to play. Typically, what I’ve done is just tried learning a song I already knew on the guitar and played the chords on the piano. This time though I wanted to try a song that was originally recorded [...]

I love keyboard shortcuts–if there’s a way to do something without the mouse then I feel like I should at least know about it as some shortcuts really end up saving a lot of time and make doing simple (especially repetitive) things even simpler. If you know of others you use a lot that are [...]

Brian at work recently recommended I try one of the new keyboards the hardware folks came out with recently–the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 v1.0. I’ve loved it and bought one for each of the desktops I use at home and work as it’s painful to switch keyboard layouts all the time. One of the [...]

I had heard Pearl Jam was going to be finishing their next album soon so I headed over to tenclub.net to see what the latest was. What I found was a redesigned site with some pretty interesting (in a fun fact kind of way) data. Here’s one that lists every song Pearl Jam has played [...]

I’m a huge fan of Windows Desktop Search. It’s been as life changing for me at work as a Tivo was at home when we first got one years ago. Not too long ago I ran into the various announcements for the Enterprise version of Desktop Search and saw that there was some new “tighter” [...]