February 2007

  • back…

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    It’s been a hectic couple of weeks – we put up Michel Tremblay’s Forever Yours Marie-Lou this past weekend. Production week was hectic. The whole process has been very fun and really a great re-introduction to theatre for me. The other principals in the company have embraced me with open arms and I expect we’ll…

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  • From The Pirate Bay: OscarTorrents

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    The folks behind torrent site The Pirate Bay have launched a new site, OscarTorrents for all your Oscar Film needs. To those worried about downloading in case they get sued: by our calculations, your chances of getting nailed are way less than your chances of winning the lottery. Don’t think twice about it. To all…

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  • wow, that’s worse…

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    Now Wal-Mart’s partying like it’s 1997 with this lovely “Unsupported Browser” message. This is so embarrassing for them… couldn’t afford a good web development company? Come on… Update: they’re even using a spacer.gif to display the error message – talk about living in the past…

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  • Thoughts on Thoughts on Music

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    The whole of the Internets are atwitter with chatter and analysis about Steve Jobs’s “Thoughts on Music” essay published yesterday on the Apple website. “Is it a challenge to the major record labels? An answer to the increasingly hostile European governments (Norway, France, Germany) that are pressuring Apple to “open up” the iTunes Store? A…

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  • PowerToys for Windows XP

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    Cool… just found these Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP – a bunch of small upgrades for different parts of the windows interface – I just installed the Alt-Tab replacement – an upgrade to the regular Alt-Tab function that adds a preview of the application you’re switching to. Also interesting looking: Tweak UI, Virtual Desktop Manager…

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  • Wow, that’s bad…

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    Wal-Mart launched their new video download service today, and boy does it suck. Here’s what it looks like in Firefox: Oh yeah also, they want you to pay $15 for a 320×240 video that won’t play on iPod, Zune, Mac, or Linux. Boooooooo.

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  • Lauchy, where have you been all my life?

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    Launchy: The Open Source Keystroke Launcher for Windows – I was just doing some looking around for an application launcher for windows – because, let’s face it, the Start Menu sucks, and the Quick Launch bar just doesn’t cut it either… and so I came across Launchy, a free windows utility that indexes your applications…

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