I mentioned to my lovely wife that I’d like to get a piano for our new house. She jumps on the internets an finds a piano, for FREE. So we rent a truck and go and pickup the piano. It took 4 of us to get in in the house, the thing weights close to 500 lbs. Seriously. It’s a little out of tune but it’s in great condition. I’ve put the pictures up on my flickr page. As cliché as it sounds, Craigslist is THE source for all things cool.
Category: General
Picture-taking, Radio-playing, Call-making Phone
My previous cell phone comes from the era of New Radicals and the Y2K scare. It was definitely time to upgrade to something new. I was holding out on picking up something that would take decent photos and have a better battery life than my old phone.
I think I’ve found the best phone that does all the above at a reasonable price. The Sony Ericson w810i. It has a built-in 2.0 megapixel camera, an FM radio and MP3 player. It syncs beautifully with my Mac and takes the same memory format as my PSP. (Memory Stick Duo)
I wanted to have a small camera that I could take with me when I was out and about to capture the interesting things I see. I’ll be updating my flickr page with photos from my camera. Enjoy and Happy Holidays.
127.0.0.1
Our offer was accepted on our new home! We move in on the 7th of November. The house is 1 1/2 stories on about an acre of land. We’re really excited and can’t wait to invite our friends and family over to visit. We’ve got great plans for this home and it will be a great place to raise Kari.
Here’s some pictures:
RSS OMG WTFBBQ!!!!!!111
I’ve been an avid user of Ranchero NewsGator’s NetNewsWire RSS (Lite) reader. It’s a great app and it has a huge user base. However, as of this evening that has all changed. I’ve found a kick butt replacement that’s a million times better. It’s called Vienna.
Vienna is an open source aggregator that has some cool features.
First, it allows me to archive feeds. This was one of the features lacking in NNW Lite. Feeds would fall off into the void way too quickly. Now I can horde my information FOREVER.
Second, I like the UI more so than NNW. It looks like an iApp. NNW looked very ancient, in a 10.2 vs 10.4 Finder kinda way.
Smart Folders. Holy Cow. I can now create folders with keywords like “silly string” and “brown toed shoes” and any articles that contain those phrases will instantly appear in my silly string and brown toed shoes folder*
Pretty sweet deal.
If you’re a Mac user and you’re looking for a robust and well put together RSS reader, look no further than Vienna. It’s open source (ergo free), has a great feature set, well thought out UI and is capable of importing your subscriptions from NNW. Highly recommended!
*I had to think of something I’d want to filter. Silly string and brown toed shoes were the first things to come to my mind. Kids, don’t blog late.
All my images are gone.
I nuked the dir that contained the images that were in all my previous posts. Unless my host has some magical backup, they’re gone. So for all my old posts you’re just going to have to close your eyes and imagine what I was talking about.
Who let me on the internet?