According to Wikipedia, here is a list of products endorsed by Billy Mays. I think “Buddy Putty” is my favorite product name. It conjures up lots of crude mental images… Aquapel Awesome Auger, Ground Aug, Weed Auger, and Power Extender gardening tools Bedazzler Big City Slider Station Black Swan Furniture Bloomin’ Onion Maker Buddy Putty [...]
One of the great annoyances in web design is testing multiple versions of the execrable Internet Explorer. Since it’s used by such a large percentage of people browsing the web, problems with its display of elements on a web page can’t be ignored. Thankfully, Microsoft has been addressing the issues, and their version 7 of [...]
Free editor Notepad++ hit the 5.0 mark this past weekend, and it certainly is speedier. I was rumbling along on v4.8 for the past few months, so I got the benefit of two release cycles with my upgrade. Here’s what I get to work with now: v5.0 enhancements 1. Improve Notepad++ performance – on startup [...]
OpenGoo is an updated branch of activeCollab, the recently-gone-commercial Basecamp clone. I like what the developers have done with the tool. Basically, here is one way the app workflow can go: Create a workspace (rather than activeCollab’s projects) Add tasks, assigning each to a workspace Assign tasks to users Users assign tags to tasks It’s [...]
Robyn Hitchcock’s second box set chronicling his solo career comes out on CD August 19. The latest offering, titled Luminous Groove, includes Fegmania!, Element of Light and Gotta Let This Hen Out! Three EXCELLENT Hitchcock albums, covering one of my favorite periods of his career. In addition, there are two discs worth of goodies entitled [...]
Version control; the good, the bad and the WTF. Two stories about teamwork and coding. One is how it should be done (with links to more resources) and the other is a tale of how it usually happens in the real world.
Well, how do you like that? TechCrunch reports that Adobe is working with Google and Yahoo to allow all of a Flash file’s content to be searched. Very nice. The swfobject option is handy, but that only gets your Flash object on the search engine’s radar screen. This should make the game of “hide the [...]
Pull 5 gallons of drinkable water from thin area each day with the Kilmatec Base 1 AirWater Machine. It works like a humidifier, while taking the extra step to process the water into a refreshing drinking experience. Includes a solar power option. The perfect water cooler for Arrakis. I’m not sure if distillation suits and [...]
“It is not there. What is there? The following garbage is there. Microsoft Autoupdate Exclusive test package, Microsoft Autoupdate Reboot test package, Microsoft Autoupdate testpackage1. Microsoft AUtoupdate testpackage2, Microsoft Autoupdate Test package3.”
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