Archive for March 2006

More of the Nerdular Nerdance

In Uncategorized on 30 March 2006 with no comments

A’ight. If you’ve got yourself one of the new Intel Core Macs and are having no luck with the Flash plug-in, go get the latest version, complete with a how-to for the install. Odeo users can now receive voice messages. Too cool for school! (hint, hint: shift your eyes just a little bit to the [...]

GTABloggers List Happening Again

In Uncategorized on 27 March 2006 with no comments

Thanks to the excellent back-end work of Neil Lee, the Greater Toronto Area Bloggers mail list is up and running again. Muchos gracias, Mr. Lee. Muchos gracias.

My Must-Have Apps

In Uncategorized on 26 March 2006 with no comments

Having recently added a new Intel Core Mac mini to the family, I had to go about (re)installing all those cool/must-have applications. The ever-growing list: VLC: The media player. ‘Nuff said. Quicksilver: I’m still fairly new to this one, but so far, it rocks. NewsFire: Great, straight-forward RSS reader; simple to use and easy on [...]

Food for Buddhist Thought

In Uncategorized on 13 March 2006 with no comments

From Steve Hagen’s Buddhism Plain and Simple, page 38: bq. We live in a culture where we’re taught to see freedom as the maximization of choice. But this is not true freedom at all. In fact, it’s a form of bondage. True freedom doesn’t lie in the maximization of choice, but, ironically, is most easily [...]

Life Imitates Art (again)

In Uncategorized on 5 March 2006 with no comments

Check out this shot by shot live reenactment of the intro to the Simpsons television show. Just brilliant. Anyone up to taking on Futurama or Family Guy? (thanks to Neil Lee over at the BeatnikPad for finding this one.)