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Corsair Flash Voyager 8GB

I picked up one of these the other day from Newegg for $9.99, after the mail in rebate of course.  It is pretty awesome 8GB is about all the storage that I need on a flash drive these days.  I won’t bore you with the details, I’ll just show you the HDTune Benchmarks.  I had [...]

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Blog Entry Poster

Just a little test from the neat little blog entry poster that I just installed, I’m curious to see if it even works!

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Smart YouTube plugin

I discovered this awesome wordpress plugin that allows you to easily embed valid YouTube video.  http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/wordpress-plugins/smart-youtube
Its really easy to use, you just install the plugin and then configure it under the “Settings” tab.  Then when you want to embed a YouTube video you just type and it will automagically handle everything for you. [...]

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XHTML Valid YouTube Embedding

If you have ever tried to embed a YouTube video and then tried to validate the HTML of your page, you know that youtube will break your validation.  I recently discovered the solution.  Apparently YouTube videos are also supposed to be viewed 320×267, I think I actually like the smaller size.  I bolded the important [...]

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Oh No! Slashdot was down!

Wednesday June 4, 2008 at 6:58 PM.  No reason to panic, Slashdot kept giving me this error page, but its back to normal now.  I wonder what happened.  Maybe I should email Pater and inform him of this error.

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Notepad++

If you don’t know about Notepad++ you are missing out.  It is amazing.  I don’t know what else there is to say except that it is amazing.

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Gentoo Mirror

I just set up a full source gentoo mirror at mirror.silliam.com. I don’t know if gentoo would want my mirror added to their official pool since it is on shared hosting, so I haven’t submitted a bug report yet. However, I am going to use my mirror, and anyone else is free to [...]

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Fractal Backgrounds

I was recently motivated to make myself a really cool looking desktop background. My laptop has a 1280×800 display, so the images are in that resolution. If you want me to make a different resolution, just write a comment and I will be happy to oblige. One of these days I am [...]

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Essential Software for Windows

I decided to make a list of my favorite free software. It will be an ongoing project at my ESW page. The ESW page will also have more up-to-date information and reviews about the utilities.
Defragmenter – JkDefrag
Archive Manager – 7zip

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Ripzilla is alive!

My Nakamichi Mj-5 and 14 bay SCSI tower is now alive and kicking as a 40 CD ripping machine! After many weeks of waiting and watching on eBay and a small effort on the part of my machinist friend, I have all of the components necessary for a CD ripping beast. Check out [...]

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