Month: March 2005

Food

Spalti

Spalti Ristorante is a nice Italian restaurant on California Ave. in Palo Alto. I used to go there a lot more when I lived near California Ave. Nicole and I went tonight and although we were a little disappointed with our...

General

Woodland Creek Apartments

We visited Woodland Creek Apartments in East Palo Alto today. They look nice (from the outside at least), but they're in a pretty awful neighborhood so we're probably not going to give them any further consideration. Bay Area...

General

Thoughts on Flickr and Yahoo (by Jeremy Zawodny)

Wow, Yahoo bought Flickr. Very interesting! Jeremy has some thoughts on Yahoo's acquisition of Flickr. Thoughts on Flickr and Yahoo (by Jeremy Zawodny) I'm interested to see what comes out of this. My bet is the first thing will...

Windows

Possible solution to iTunes for Windows install hanging on QuickTime install

I managed to solve the problem I was having with installing iTunes that I just blogged about a few minutes ago: What is up with iTunes/QuickTime for Windows? Hopefully, this solutions works for the tons of other people that are...

GeneralWindows

What is up with iTunes/QuickTime for Windows?

On my Win2k system, attempting to upgrade iTunes results in it hanging at the "Installing QuickTime" step and then eating 100% of my CPU. So I found this tip at the iTunes for Windows forums, but then installing the standalone...

Windows

Real Alternative

I was looking to play a RealAudio stream (.ram file) today and I was dreading having to install the big piece of bloatware that is RealPlayer/RealOne/RealAnnoying whatever the heck they call it these days. So I did a search and...

bash

Making Bash Do Your Work for You

There are a few interesting ideas here and the author has perhaps the same idea that I had - of building a standardized bashrc environment that is powerful and easily customizable. Making Bash Do Your Work for You...