Singing Acoustic

In my sense, playing acoustic guitar is a substitute for the entire composition. It’s just you...

Disable Front Row Keyboard Shortcut...

The Front Row keyboard shortcut, command-escape, is pretty damn annoying, because it’s so easy...

Keyboard Shortcut to Add Footnote in Mac...

Here’s another keyboard shortcut that doesn’t seem to be documented. If you want to add...

Promote/Demote List Item in Mac Word

For the longest time, I couldn’t figure out the keyboard shortcut to promote/demote a list...

Cognitive Power Point in International...

(Or why business school annoys me, Part x.) So I’m preparing a Power Point for my...

Thoughts on Making Music - Replacing the...

So I finally dusted off the old keyboard and plugged it into my Powerbook G4 12”. I am...

Finding the Config File for Vidalia

I’ve been playing around with Vidalia builds lately on my Mac. (For those who don’t...

How to Disable Dashboard - Use Onyx

Onyx is great. It’s a great maintenance tool for checking your disk, cleaning up logs and...

How to Sync Your iCal with Google...

It used to be one of the Holy Grails of Mac-dom: two-way syncing of your iCal with Google Calendar....

How to Uninstall Menufela

I love Menufela—it lets me hide Spotlight and even hide the entire menu bar, so I have the...

Lightscoop and the Nikon D40

  Let’s be real. A lot of people take pictures in their apartments/homes with pretty crappy...

Dreamhost E-mail Retention "Policy"

I use Dreamhost. I’m actually someone who really likes them. I was just wondering, do they...

Using Sugar to Keep Flowers Fresh

Never knew this. If you add some sugar and some vinegar to the water in your flower vase, your...

Mangosteen

Last time I was in Thailand, I couldn’t get enough mangosteen. It’s sweet, slightly...

Tips to More Effective...

(An example of a bit of underlining overload.)  When studying, it helps to underline while you...

What is an Entrepreneur?

So in my first business school class—International Entrepreneurship—the professor opened...

Chicago screws - I’m using them to bind my three-hole...

In Defense of Food: Eat Food. Not Too...

I recently listened to the NPR Science Friday podcast with Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of...

Squidgy: unpleasantly damp; clammy

I’m reading an article on a recently discovered 1-ton rodent that once existed in South...

Advertising Fuels TV?

I’m watching 30 Rock on-line via NBC. And it just struck me as incredible that, if it...

Best Simple Word Processors for Mac OS

I was checking out the word processing applications in the NYT via 43Folders and took the time to...

Getting a 5% Discount Off of Rolex...

There’s somewhat of a tradition in Asian cultures where, upon an engagement, the wife’s...

Script to Display Battery Stats in Terminal

Mac Terminal Program to Access Battery...

My Mac desktop setup is kind of unique: I hide absolutely everything, so I get a full screen all the...

Do Used Coffee Grounds Really Absorb...

I used to love the fact that used coffee grounds could be used to absorb odors. (I’m even...

Pet Peeve: Blind Linking

I hate it when blogs make links to other posts but don’t explain what the next link is about...

21 ways to use old coffee grounds

Real Simple: 22 Items You Need in Your...

Treatments for Sneezing and a Runny...

So probably because I’ve been sleeping less, I just got freakin’ sick. Mostly it’s...

The Poo Avenger

Since we have a dog, I take a lot of walks around our Cambridge neighborhood. As a walker, it can be...

Using the Canoscan LiDE 50 with My...

My God, I’ve had some trouble getting my Canoscan LiDE 50 to work my MacBook Pro, running Mac...

Shooting with the Nikon D40 and the...

So the Nikon D40, while being a great camera, doesn’t accommodate a great lens, the Nikon 50mm...

MP3 Tours of the ICA Boston

"Command-Line" Hacking Google Maps

Not a huge hack, but I sometimes get annoyed that I have to go to maps.google.com and then enter an...

Rite in the Rain Field Books

In another blog, during another time, I raved about the Rite in the Rain memo/field books,...

Cheap-o Bounce Flash

So bounce flash is a technique used to reduce the obnoxiously glaring built-in flash on most cameras...

Customizing My Nikon D40

I’m really trying to learn my Nikon D40. So far, it’s great. (Except for the fact that...

What I'm Listening to Now 001

Checking out: The Cribs, Mika (meh—the Pitchfork review actually *did* turn me off of him,...

The Best Response to Bullying

We were driving on the highway, and this woman in the white Volvo Cross Country station wagon (most...

Last Law School Exam - Evah

I just completed my last law school exam ever. It feels pretty good never to have to take an essay...

Oceanographer - On Leaping From...

Was listening to Oceanographer’s “On Leaping from Airplanes” and was thinking...

Uninstalling the QLOUD iTunes Plugin for...

Do You Need an Accent to Be a Defense...

Is it just me or do all the defense attorneys on Court TV have thick local accents? Makes sense that...

The Lights on the Boston Common

…Look like droopy penises. Horrible. 

Just for the hell of it. A picture of Ruki as a puppy, one...

Car Window De-Fogging

Our Scion has problems with the inside of the windows fogging up in the wintertime. It’s even...

Juggalo Life Gallery

New Throw-Away E-mail Address

I need a new throw-away e-mail address. I’ve been using MyWay, but for some reason a lot of my...

Raven's Brew Coffee: Deadman's Reach -...