April 2004
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Dear Computer at Work
Please note that your default printer is 5E501XT. Unless I specifically select a new system-wide printer, please assume that I always want to print to that one, it being nearest my desk. Do not infer from my occasional choices to print to a different machine or to use the PDF converer that I want continue using that setting forever. If I did, I would have changed the system-wide preference...
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I’d just like to go on record that I don’t like that The WB has started using the word “fresh” to refer to new episodes. What idiotic marketing notes produced that one?
With that off my chest, I didn’t watch last night’s fresh episode of Smallville, but it’s first on my list for tonight. Oh, and sweet merciful crap: The O.C. was fantastic last night!
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More TypeKey Info
Well, the cat’s on its way out of the bag about TypeKey. Yesterday I figured out that TypePad members can use their logins for the new service. They can then go and use their TypeKey identities to comment on pages running MovableType 3.0 beta.
With your login, you can also go into TypeKey and set up your profile and account preferences. (Again, TypePad users can use their current login and...
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TypeKey is Live for TypePad Users
Via Dive Into Mark, I hopped over to Idly’s MT 3.0b1 First Thoughts. Since MovableType 3.0 is in beta, it makes sense that they’re doing some major testing on TypeKey, their new comment registration system. Noticing that Idly has a TypeKey notice on his comment form, I clicked the link to see if I could sign up. I filled out the form and got an error message informing me that someone was already...
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I’m really having fun with the playlist I talked about the other day. The key is not to worry too much about what to give five stars. It’s not a rating of how good the song actually is, it’s a rating of how much you enjoy the song. “We Built this City” is the worst song of all time? Nah. Five stars.
Assigning a song rating is no harder than dragging it onto a playlist, and once your...
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During last night’s The West Wing, NBC decided to shrink the screen down to make room for a banner directing us to change the channel to MSNBC to follow a breaking story. Keep in mind that advertisers spend lots of money supporting prime time television, so a network would never direct its viewers to stop watching its programming unless the story were very important. A big story warranting banner...
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iTunes’ Smart Playlists provide lots of great ways to listen to music. Here’s one I’ve been toying with recently. There are two criteria:
My Rating is 5 stars,
Last Played is not in the last day.
You’ll get a handy list of all your favorite songs that you haven’t listened to today. Put it on shuffle and you have your own radio station playing only A-List jams. I call it “The...
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If Democrats want to win this election, they need to stop focusing on what President Bush did before September 11 and concentrate on what he did afterward. It’s easy to use hindsight to fuel speculation, but this president’s weakness is what he’s done since that day. Revisting the months before we were attacked won’t change the fact that it happened. Get the country to realize what the...
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Internet hot spot of the week Kinja has been getting a lot of attention. My quick review: I like it. I’m not sure I prefer it to Bloglines, but it provides a different enough experience that I’m going to keep using for a few more days and see if it sticks.
Overview
What is Kinja? According to their about page:
Kinja is a weblog portal, collecting news and commentary
from some of the best...
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The Mystery of Rampo
My VCR may or may not be hooked up correctly. I’m sure I plugged in the cables, but I’ve never tested it because I really don’t care. Except that now it’s the only clock in the apartment that hasn’t sprung forward, and I can’t change the time without using the onscreen menus. I was thinking of just unplugging it.
I don’t own many movies on VHS anyway, but there is one item in my collection that...
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Today being April Fool’s Day, lots of websites are going to try to make little jokes like announcing they’re going to offer email accounts or that Jackie Chan’s son goes to your college.
On an unrelated note, I’ve obtained a super secret spy image of the costume that Halle Berry will be wearing in the upcoming Catwoman. I assure you this is a real, undoctored photo of the actual costume and not...