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Winamp is no more
It's the end of an era. Winamp has been shut down by AOL.
I'm feeling unusually sad about this. I've had Winamp on my primary machine ever since version 1.90. I still have the winamp190.exe installer (dated 1998) in my downloads directory as a bit of digital nostalgia ( Read more... ) -
Radiohead!
Matt and I got up early-ish on Saturday to score some Radiohead tickets. We had four computers in the living room, each with the Ticketmaster site open and pointing to the event page. We hit F5 repeatedly while "No tickets available" was flashed in the browser window until about 10:05am, at which time the page changed and we were greeted with a ( Read more... ) -
Thrift Store Electronics
My fate as an electrical engineer was sealed at a young age. Sometime during my early childhood, when visiting the thrift store with my mom, I managed to find and convince my parents to buy a radio electronics experimenter's kit. It had about 30 different components with springs to hold bits of wire. I'm pretty sure the thrift store version was ( Read more... ) -
Thank you, Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing
When I originally moved into my apartment a few years ago and began putting up photos around the living room, I planned for the future by using 3M's "Command Adhesive" interlocking fasteners. They're not for heavy stuff, but for lightweight items like my foamcore-backed photos, it's the perfect technology. Today I started taking down the photos, ( Read more... ) -
Dumb security questions are dumb
I recently registered on a site that offered the following security questions:- What is your maternal grandmother's first name?
- What was your high school's mascot?
- What is your father's middle name?
- What was your best friend's name in high school?
- What was the name of the street you lived on as a child?
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Last night I watched a 2.5-hour commercial, known popularly as The Transformers. After the first 10 minutes of noticing several glaring product placements I started making a list, with the bold items being particularly egregious.- HP
- Cisco
- eBay
- USA Today
- Yahoo!
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Watch out!
So I bought some generic plastic containers (read: Tupperware) for work, and I noticed a warning on the top:
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Holiday Advertising
So I'm working from home today with the TV on in the background ( Read more... ) -
Life and Taxes
I got my taxes done this weekend with the help of TaxAct. For those of you still procrastinating, I recommend it; it's free for Federal, but with a few extra fees for State and for state e-file, I spent about $21 to get all my taxes done and submitted electronically ( Read more... )
