Yes, there really is a cheese called Stinking Bishop. And, of course, after the Wallace & Gromit movie, I (and probably many other W&G fans) would love to try it, even if it does “smell of old socks”, as the description states.
Month: October 2005
iHome
I picked up an iHome from Costco today. If all goes well, I should wake up to the sounds of John Coltrane tomorrow.
Samurai Champloo
Beatbox Bandits is the Mushroom Samba of Samurai Champloo. Great stuff.
Fountains of Wayne Hotline
“Fountains of Wayne Hotline” by Robbie Fulks is a great, funny, song. It’s available on iTunes now, and there’s a live version on eMusic.
CounterSpy problems
My desktop PC has been behaving for the last few days, without CounterSpy on it, so I decided to reinstall CounterSpy and see if the problems came back. Boy howdy, they sure did! I think I’m going to have to do without CounterSpy, until maybe the next major release. Something about 1.5 really doesn’t agree with my computer.
DigitalLife
The best thing at DigitalLife was the giant Robosapien. There’s a good pic at Engadget.
PC Annoyances
A few days ago, I did a full spyware scan on my desktop PC with CounterSpy. It identifed a few registry entries as spyware and suggested quarantining them. I was pretty sure it was wrong about that, but I let it quarantine them anyway. I think that was a mistake. The machine has been acting a bit weird ever since, and it pretty much fell apart today. To make a long story (relatively) short, I went back to a system restore point before the CounterSpy changes, uninstalled CounterSpy, and reinstalled StarDock’s ObjectDock, which had gone quite wonky. I hope I’m back to normal now. The moral of this story is: Never trust CounterSpy.
New Palm stuff
MacFixIt – iBook problem
MacFixIt – Sudden loss of AirPort connectivity for iBook G4 mid-2005 series: I hope this doesn’t happen to my iBook!
Bookmark managers
Since I’m now switching back and forth between IE, Opera, Firefox, and Safari on three computers at home and one at work (one Mac, the rest PCs), I’m starting to think about bookmark management and synchronization. Here are some links:
- This page has a pretty big list of bookmark managers.
- Bookmark Buddy: Windows software. $30. Looks like it’ll import and export from IE, Firefox, and Opera. (Not an online service.)
- Sync2It: This one’s got Windows and Mac client software, which apparently syncs your bookmarks to their web site. Besides supporting IE, Firefox, and Opera on the PC, it looks like it supports Safari on the Mac, which is nice. The price varies from free to $25/year, depending on what you’re doing.
- Powermarks: Windows software. $25. Looks like it suppors IE and Opera, with Firefox support in beta. Online sync.
- del.icio.us: Very popular online “social bookmarking” site. Free. There are some cool things about it, but you have to dig if you want to figure out how to import/export bookmarks from your machine(s). Looks like you could do a lot with the API, and maybe a bit of Python coding.
- Spurl is also a social bookmarking site. It claims to support IE, Firefox, Opera, and Safari on Windows and Mac.
- This guy has some stuff to say about the differences between Furl, Spurl, and del.icio.us.
I think I’m most interested in Spurl right now, but I haven’t tried any of these yet.