Just noticed there’s a new DVD coming out on April 15th of Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova playing at the Artists Den. Should be good stuff and it’s much cheaper than I would have expected too. Here’s the set list: Say It To Me Now, Lay Me Down, All The Way Down, This Low, When Your Mind’s Made [...]

I was just struggling to find something new to listen to and ran across the “Length” column in Windows Media Player. I did a descending sort and found these to be the top five artists, in terms of hours of music per artist (let’s call it HOMPA just because) I own: The Frames – 16 hours, 22 [...]

Just learned a great Vista (or Server 2008) shortcut from a friend. To run something as admin just using the keyboard: Press the Windows “Start” button on your keyboard. Type the command you want to launch (e.g., “cmd”). Press Ctrl-Shift-Enter. Sweet. That beats my old method of using (which wasn’t just keyboard based): hit Ctrl-Shift-ESC, [...]

Fueled by my recent find, I set off to find what was hopefully a simple registry tweak to set my IE homepage on my smartphone. It turns out it’s as simple as changing the value of the following key to the URL of your choice: HKey_LocalMachine\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\AboutURLs\home If you don’t have one already, download one [...]

I kill plenty of time browsing the web on my phone. I’ve even developed a daily habit of reading the daily featured article on Wikipedia (though I wish it had a mobile version–if it actually does, I can’t find it, please enlighten me). A little while ago, while playing with Twitter, I ran across this [...]

I’ve been somewhat intrigued by Twitter for a while now but never got around to doing anything about it. So many people rave about it though and it seems to just keep getting increasingly popular. Tonight, while testing the most recent version of ccDismiss, I had plenty of time to kill since it required waiting for my batteries to [...]