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Archive for January, 2008

Turning an RSS feed into a calendar

Wed, January 30th, 2008 | Posted in Tech | 1 Comment » UPDATE: This stopped working for some reason.  If someone wants to give it a try and see if it works again, let me know in the comments. But mine quit ... Read more..

R7 Theater: "Of Stories"…or "Of Of"

Wed, January 30th, 2008 | Posted in Etc | No Comments » CAST:First character: The first character in the play.Second character: A Nother character in the play.SETTING:A place. After the earlier time but before the later time.ACT ONE OF ONE:First character: Oh, ... Read more..

Beware of where you stick your password, lest you get a virus

Tue, January 29th, 2008 | Posted in Tech | No Comments » Nutshell: Make sure you're not being lured into giving out your usernames and passwords, especially on MySpace.A couple of months ago, I started getting comments on my MySpace page from ... Read more..

A micro-Twitter feed through Google Reader

Mon, January 28th, 2008 | Posted in Tech | No Comments » Nutshell: A simple tip on how to use Google Reader to follow only a certain group of friends on Twitter. I've really come to like Twitter over the last couple of ... Read more..

For the love of: Yahoo Pipes

Sun, January 27th, 2008 | Posted in Tech | 1 Comment » Nutshell: Use Yahoo Pipes to turn multiple RSS feeds into one. Also: creating an RSS feed of select people in Twitter.It seems that the number of applications that are getting ... Read more..

Me + guitar + tomorrow

Sun, January 27th, 2008 | Posted in Music | 6 Comments » For those of you looking for to rock Monday night away (and if you're not looking to do that, you're sad and lame not keyed into the counterculture), I feel ... Read more..

Where was I on this one: box.net

Fri, January 25th, 2008 | Posted in Tech | 4 Comments » In a series that should be called Totally Useful Web Apps That I Should Have Been Using All Along But Always Forgot About, Especially When It Would Have Been The ... Read more..

Short attention span reviews: 2008, 24 days in

Fri, January 25th, 2008 | Posted in Music | 6 Comments » All hail 2008! For some reason or another. Magnetic Fields, "Too Drunk To Dream"Holiday meets 69 Love Songs. Clever genius meets even greater genius. If there was any justice ... Read more..

The 3 oft-forgotten words to discovery: Options, Help, Search

Thu, January 24th, 2008 | Posted in Tech | 4 Comments » Nutshell: It's all too easy to forget how useful a program's options, help files and smart searching are.No matter how advanced you are in programs, programming or the world of ... Read more..

Which will you take

Thu, January 24th, 2008 | Posted in Music | No Comments » I can't really say why I felt so sad when I saw the news about Heath Ledger scroll across the closed captioning at the TV in the coffee shop I ... Read more..