Every couple of months or so I still get requests from folks looking for the latest version (or, sometimes, any version) of Snippy. Snippy is a code snippet editor for Visual Studio I wrote a few years back. At one point, I ended up transitioning the project to some folks on the core Visual Studio [...]

Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova seem to have been nominated for an Oscar for the song, Falling Slowly, from the film, Once. They also got nominated for a Grammy for best sountrack album. Rarely do I find myself really rooting for someone to win, but this time I’ll definitely be watching intently.

On my last post, I described some of the problems I was experiencing with DRM and Windows Media Player. A friend and coworker was able to help me get past the crashes I was experiencing. The solution to that turned out to be deleting the folder that had the “Indiv01.key” file (I think, in my [...]

I’ve been struggling to figure out what was causing Windows Media Player 11 to crash on me relatively frequently. I’d usually notice the crash immediately (i.e., seconds) after I’d start it. I could reproduce it over and over again whenever I ran across it but other times it would work just fine. Today, I finally [...]

In between the snow and rain today, there was a little bit of sun that came out for a few minutes. I tried to make the most of it to shoot a few pictures of anything really to give me enough material to try to create my first multiple-exposure HDR image. The image on the [...]

As any of you who’ve been around me lately know, I’ve been going through a bit of a photography phase lately. I got a new DSLR recently and that’s helped push me over the edge into the land of neverending picture taking. I’ve gone through these swings before and even started a photoblog once. I [...]