Music

My first Russian link

From Vlad, who recently joined our team at work. It turns out he plays the guitar too (here's some music from him), so I'll have to convince him to bring his guitar in someday. http://wadcom.livejournal.com/19431.html...
General

Misspelling my name

Back when I was in college, I got a piece of mail addressed to me with one of the funniest misspellings of my name that I had ever seen: "March Adranowitz". Today, someone mentioned me by name in a bug report and referred me to...
Windows

1 GB of RAM in our Windows laptop

My wife's Windows XP laptop has been pretty slow lately and I haven't gotten around to doing the old Windows ritual of backing up the data and reinstalling Windows from scratch, so I bought 1 GB of RAM from a coworker and...
General

Web serfer

Recently, I've noticed that 99% of the comment spam on my blog is this single message (from a bazillion different email addresses of course) Actually i am not an active serfer, but this this site is really great, i will spread it...
General

WordPress 2.1 released

Read all about it. I was using Wordpress via the Subversion 2.0 branch so I had to do: svn switch http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/branches/2.1 and then clean up a few spurious merge conflicts. Interestingly, while writing...
Mac

OS X: VirtueDesktops

VirtueDesktops is a nice freeware app for OS X that does multiple desktops with neat effects including the famous "spinning cube" effect. Easy to use and unobstrusive, you can use hotkeys to switch between desktops and also...