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Everybody lays the blame!!!

This morning my laptop took it's sweet time booting up. On the screen it said, 'Applying Your Personal Settings' So, what?! Are you saying it's my fault this OS is so slow?!

Internet Crash of '07

Let me be the first to console you!

Build Your Own Developer PC

I feel that every good developer should have a basic understanding of how a computer works on the inside, and if possible, a little time playing with Assembly. (Much like a Jedi must build his own light-saber!) Here's an article to help you start with your sweet Developer Rig. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000918.html

Al Qaeda? Here's an idea!

Sic the lawyers on 'em!

Music... my new passion.

I took piano lessons as a kid, and never gave it the respect it deserved. I like music, I'd love to be able to make music... but until I can get better at guitar, I'll have to settle for being able to listen to all the music I want. In that regard... I've been trying to get my music library running through GBPVR to my stereo. This has proved trickier than I thought. Here's why... I've amassed my collection of digital music over the years through various means. I've imported from CDs via iTunes and Media Player. Both applications import through their own means, and save the files in their own ways. GBPVR has a very slick music plugin for it called Music Library 2. The biggest selling point for my, besides the slick interface, was that it Scrobbled to Last.FM. (Basically, it keeps track of what you've listened to, and customizes an online radio station for you.) One problem, to keep design time down, this was designed to ONLY use .mp3 files. What to do about m...

Cool Technology and a New Software Project!

First off, this is cool, Rubber Metal . Second, I know I can't stay on one project very long... maybe I do have some ADD. But I started writing a plugin for GBPVR that will enable you to view websites on your MVP. Very basic at the moment, the site is hard-coded in. But we'll make progress, I hope.