Zibblog

Recently, I started using FeedDemon on my work pc. It’s part of the NewsGator suite of applications that includes NetNewsWire for the mac that I’ve used for a long time. What’s really cool is that you can sync your read and unread news items across the different client applications. Mostly, however, I’ve been using FeedDemon which has a nice concept of News Bins. These are named folders that you can put items into. Lately, I’ve been keeping track of all the stuff that I wanted to blog about and here’s some of them.

I read a really funny post this morning for a hypothetical Samuel L Jackson movie called Bears on a Sub. You have to read the post, if just for the pictures.

If you share a tivo with your significant other, at some point you may have wanted to tivo something that you didn’t want other people to watch. From that idea comes this post.

There was an interesting article in the Merc about finding a job in the bay area that included some stuff about Netflix.

For all of you that have some sort of DirectTivo setup, it looks like Tivo and DirectTV have decided to extend their partnership.

Here’s a funny comic about internet predators on Yirmumah. (I know, internet predators aren’t funny, but this comic is.)

If you haven’t watched The Boondocks on Cartoon Network (based on the comic strip of the same name), then you need to either tivo it or get the dvds. [Netflix page] Seriously, it’s kind of like Spike Lee meets South Park. I’d give it 10 zibs (which is great unless you believe in the theory of the wrapping zibs metric originally put forth by Joe (or possibly Ryan)).

In other tv news, Prison Break is coming back for another season (supposedly, they are going to break out at the end of this season), Heist is pretty much cancelled already, and 24 is going for at least 3 more seasons. Current talk is that next season of 24 is going to take place in London.

I’m too lazy to put up actual content, so here is some more random stuff for your reading enjoyment.

WordPress 2.0 – It’s coming. Soon. Really. I believe that this is what will both put off the blog move and finally make me do it. In the meantime, I still need to move all the images from the blog over to flickr. I also really need to figure out what I want for a more permanent web presence for my photos. I’m tempted to use flickr, but I’d be interested in what other people do. I guess I could always just web dump from iPhoto to coveringdistance, but that seems so last year (or maybe the year before last, I feel left behind alot in the wave of Web 2.0).

Back in the days of XWindows and college, I used to play around with configurations to allow myself to use the mouse as little as possible. The idea being that it would allow me to pump out code faster. I’ve since decided that I don’t know how much I believe in that since those were also the days where I had random wrist pains. Anyway, today I saw a post on lifehacker about using the keyboard with firefox.

While I was watching kron4 this morning (at one point, I watched Good Morning America every morning; however, at some point I discovered that the morning news on kron4 is much more funny), I saw a commercial for Chia Cat Grass that I thought I would post for all my cat loving readers. During the news, they mentioned myfoodphone.com, which is a site for helping you organize photos of the food that you’ve eaten during the week. I thought that stuff like that stopped getting built after the bust.

If you read any Mac news sites or blogs, you’ve probably seen that Think Secret is talking about a good chance of the next Mac Mini coming out in January at MacWorld San Francisco. If Think Secret is right, it’ll have a lot of media center features, an intel processor, and a built in iPod doc. Depending on the price, it might be worth upgrading my first gen 12″ powerbook.

For the tivo fans, there was a post in the tivo forum about the possible debut of products like an HD cablecard tivo at CES in January. There is also an interesting article related to tivo talking about the number of people that actually send in their tivo rebates.

Today, I was writing some code in a jsp page where Eclipse wasn’t wanting to do any automatic completion for me, and I made a spelling mistake that caused about ten minutes of head scratching. This caused me to use the term pulling a scott.

Idiom:
pulling a Scott Informal

To misspell something in your code. This can pertain either to a text in a comment or in actual code.

In honor of JB, I bring you My Favorite Monsters #5: El Chupacabras.

For those of you that don’t know JB, back in my early days at Kintana, we used to play a lot of StarCraft. That was before people had things like wives, girlfriends, and plasma TVs (or considered StarCraft somewhat more important). Anyway, JB’s handle was Chupacabra which made me notice this page awhile back.

I did a little bit of reading and found out that the screen on the RAZR is 176×220, so I did a little web browsing and played around until I got an image of Stewie that I was able to zap to my cell phone via bluetooth. You are now looking at the new wallpaper for my cell phone.