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“Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for therest of your life.”  

On Friday, I was going to be away from an internet connection for most of the day, with time to kill.  Before I left the house, I fired up RSS Bandit, and let it pull in all of my feeds.  … Continue reading →

C6 Manufacturing is shipping carbon fiber iPod cases for the nano and 5g iPods.  The nano case is $39.99, and the 5g one is $49.99.  $7.82 for UPS Ground. tags: nano, iPod  

Amazon delivered my copy of Naked Conversations today.  Now all I need is for Scoble and Shel to come to Houston to autograph it, and a little bit of time to read it.  The weather looks pretty decent this week.  … Continue reading →

Just a quick update on my desktop search experiment.  The corporate version is just as much of a resource hog as the MSN consumer version.  Uninstalled.  One of the things I noticed is that the indexer takes a significant amount … Continue reading →

In yet another Jobs coup, Disney is buying Pixar for $7.4 billion.  Disney will issue 2.3 shares of Disney for each Pixar share.  I figured this was coming, I should have bought some Pixar shares.  Hopefully this can do something … Continue reading →

Apple has posted a good trailer for X3 – the latest X-Men movie.  It shows a couple of the new Mutants (Beast and Angel) as well as the old favorites.  No sign of Mystique, but IMDB does list her.   … Continue reading →

Microsoft has posted an article on good addins for Visual Studio.NET. Here’s their list: TestDriven.NETGhostDocPasterCodeKeepPInvoke.NETVSWindowManager PowerToyWSContractFirstVSMouseBindingsCopySourceAsHTMLCache Visualizer  

The commentary is interesting, but its also very funny. I can’t every remember having a Joel on Software article make me laugh out loud. This is just priceless. The “we won’t promote your music if you don’t let us put … Continue reading →

Windows internals expert Mark Russinovich found a rootkit on his machine testing the latest version of RootKitRevealer. Now this wasn’t a root kit that he had installed for the purpposes of testing. After some careful sleuthing, using tools way more … Continue reading →