Month: June 2005

RSS feed temporarily broken for a short time today

Sorry - there were some funny characters in this post from this morning that were causing my RSS feed to not be valid XML. I just yanked out the crap rather than figure out why WordPress wasn't escaping it properly. Thanks to...

General

What’s your workflow for transferring, organizing, and uploading digital images?

Just curious what steps people take to get their photos off their cards and on to their computers, renamed and organized into folders, captioned, and uploaded to one or more services like Yahoo! Photos and Flickr? I'm in the...

Windows

Retrospect Express HD “didn’t compare at offset” problems

This happened to me once before with the Retrospect Express HD software that came with my Maxtor OneTouch external hard drive, but I don't remember how I fixed it :-(. (more…)...

GtDProductivityWindows

Non-obvious SlickRun feature

SlickRun is a Windows productivity app that has changed my life. I've been using it happily for months to quickly launch programs and fire off emails with a few keystrokes, but today I stumbled upon a nifty little feature that I...

Gadgets

Canon camera firmware upgrade

It turned out that my Canon S40 doesn't need this firmware upgrade....

bashGeneralProgramming

“recd” on sourceforge

Brian took my cd bash function hack, made a whole bunch of improvements, and created a Sourceforge project for it: recd Sourceforge project...

General

Last throes

While watching The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, I was really struck by how ridiculous politics can be. Dick Cheney was quoted as saying that the Iraqi insurgency was in its "last throes" and then General Abizaid indicated that...