Category: Life in General

This evening, some of my geekly gadgets gathered together to greet their grandiose new gregarious guest. <G> =;) I was unable to hold out any longer, apparently. I was able to sell my last-year’s model PSP (the 1000) for $125 on Ye Olde eBay (first time eBayer, woot!), with the intention of buying a new one if I managed to sell the old one for a decent-enough amount. Being that GameStop only gives you $50 for a trade-in, I got $75 more than that with this sale. Which means that the new PSP only really cost me $75. Serious wootage! I’ve read plenty of reviews about the new PSP, saying that it’s not all that much better, not worth the Read more…

Really cute comic (sinfest)! You did it! Another lap around the sun! Good job! *pat* *pat*

Just discovered this really cool site that allows you to scrobble/tag/etc. to your last.fm account while you’re listening to Pandora. SWEET!! The only wrinkle is that it doesn’t seem to work from within Firefox. So just use Konqueror and you’ll be happy, like me. Oh, and I know I’m getting ahead of myself by 1 minute, but Happy New Year!!  =:)

Haven’t been very good at all lately on keeping my blog up to date. *sigh* Well, for that matter, I haven’t been very good at all lately on keeping up with much of anything. But I digress… After a friendly post from Pablo Yepes about some address book goofiness, I removed the ugly kludge that had been in KPilot for quite a while now: r754992 | vanrijn | 2007-12-30 21:49:50 -0500 (Sun, 30 Dec 2007) | 10 linesChanged paths: M /branches/KDE/3.5/kdepim/kpilot/ChangeLog M /branches/KDE/3.5/kdepim/kpilot/conduits/abbrowserconduit/abbrowser-conduit.cc M /branches/KDE/3.5/kdepim/kpilot/conduits/abbrowserconduit/kabcRecord.cc M /branches/KDE/3.5/kdepim/kpilot/lib/options.h * Fixing bug reported by Pablo Yepes on kdepim-users mailing list. We did severe goofiness with middle names… The Palm can’t handle them, so we blindly tacked firstname + ” ” + lastname Read more…

Blef! Finally found a fix for the awesome Tab Mix Plus Firefox extension and the iFox (and associated) themes! Sheesh. Can’t believe I tried to ignore that for so long!! Follow these steps to fix the problem: – Open a new tab– Type about:config– Create a boolean (Right click >> New >> Boolean)– Name it: extensions.tabmix.useGreyCloseButton– Set it as false And your problem should be fixed.

Okay, well, I mean, it’s always been cool.  I’ve been using it for a few days instead of Firefox and it’s nice to see some of the new things in the Opera camp since I had last used it.  I like the widgets idea, although I can’t find any widgets that will let me post to my blog.  And I miss the del.icio.us buttons/extension that is available for Firefox.  I definitely like the feel and organization of Opera.  It just feels better and more solid.  Like the theme and appearance management.  Seriously… having to reboot your web browser to just change a theme or add in an extension… seems… really… silly. Then again, Opera seems to have some quirks with Gmail (“#” doesn’t delete always??  keybindings stop working until I click on the page often? textareas don’t linewrap sometimes? in fact, Wordpress’s textarea editor is now not linewrapping, grr…).  *sigh* Anyway, it’s nice to have a little variety every once in a while.  =:) Oh, and I found a nice little technical comparison of the PSP and the new PSP slim at pspzine.  Verdict: seems like there’s no Read more…

So, lest there be any confusion about the subject, I’m a nerd. You can blame my wife for making me take the test.  And there goes 5 minutes of my life that I’ll never get back…

Okay, seriously, I think we could just delete 90% of the firefox themes on addons.mozilla.org. Truly, I am almost physically ill after spending a few minutes looking through them.   And the ones I’ve found on deviantart are out of date and unusable.  Surely, there must be a top-secret repository of really good Firefox 2 themes somewhere, right?  Certainly this can’t be all that there is? Bah humbug. You know what?  I think I’d even consider paying some small amount of $cash for something truly beautiful and groundbreaking.

Dear Lazyweb, I would LOVE to have bling on my desktop. I use KDE3, and have been good all year. I think I should be allowed to have bling on my desktop just like all of my GNOME friends. To this end, I’ve tried running compiz with emerald in my KDE desktop. I can get both compiz and emerald running just nicely and get it all configured the way that I like it. But then whenever I restart X and compiz comes back, it manages to forget half of my keybindings and configuration settings. I don’t think I’m doing anything weird or revolutionary in my settings–just an 8-sided cube with viewport-switching keybindings, ring switching, scale niftiness, animations and other standard-looking Read more…