Archive for April, 2006

Ze Frank never blinks

Monday, April 24th, 2006

Well, okay, he does - but not very often. Regardless, “the show with zefrank” is a fun watch. Think Daily Show, but shorter. And different. Definitely shorter, though.
Check out the main site for lots of other interesting bits.

Looking for video camera advice

Friday, April 21st, 2006

With our new baby’s arrival only a few weeks away, I’m planning on buying a video camera.
No, I don’t want to record the birth. Yuck.
But I do want to record all that other stuff that only parents love to remember and force their family and friends to watch. The problem is, I don’t [...]

Getting Quicksilver-ish with Launchy

Friday, April 21st, 2006

One of the downsides of Launchy is that it’s only an app launcher, so if you’re used to all the power of Quicksilver, it falls short. But I had a small epiphany this morning - if an app supports command line parameters, you can get a lot more functionality out of Launchy.
Using Outlook 2003 [...]

Launchy - a cool little launcher for Windows

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

(This one is for Difranco because it’s Mac-ish)
Since I’ve been dabbling in Mac-land, I’ve been using the must-have Quicksilver as an app launcher. It does tons of other amazing stuff, but I haven’t gotten far enough into it yet.
QS is keyboard driven. Enter the keyboard shortcut to launch the interface, then type in [...]

Presidential order of succession

Friday, April 7th, 2006

Ask Yahoo! provides a quick civics lesson on the order of succession for President.
It’s been a long time since I learned about this and I would never have remembered the details. So it surprised me to re-learn that, after the fourth batter in the lineup, (President Pro-Tempore of the Senate), the job falls on [...]