Archive Nov 29, 2004
Nintendo DS Owner
I must be one of dozens of Nintendo DS owners on the planet right now. I checked the Linkup Engine, and I'm feeling quite lonely. Of course, the lonliness is made more tolerable with a Nintendo DS in hand! The included Metroid Hunters demo is fun, but… controlling the character is somewhat clumsy on the [...]
Secure Digital Extravaganza
I picked up a 1GB SD card the other day… for $60 and a $15 mail-in rebate. I only have one device that supports Secure Digital at the moment, but it seems to be the “removable media” of choice for products today. I'm not sure if prices will go much lower than this before the [...]
The Lockergnome Universe Grows
For proof that you can write about anything, someone's set up a Lockergnome.net blog on herpes – specifically, “Empowerment Over Herpes.” Don't worry – it's not contagious. At least, you can't get herpes from reading about herpes… yet. I'm not joking about VD, mind you – just saying that here's a resource for those of [...]
AdSense for the SysTray
One of my favorite programmers just released a new tool, which I inadvertently renamed this weekend: SysSense. It's for automatically monitoring your Google AdSense account. “Load when Windows starts, 24-hour time display, auto update tray tooltip information, select which information to show in tray tooltip, proxy support, one-click to log into Google AdSense website, display [...]
Holiday Season
The Holiday Season is finally in full swing – just had my first cup of egg nog a few minutes ago. I promised myself I'd enjoy it for at least a half hour, but it didn't last much longer than two minutes. This is a season of miracles, no matter what specific winter holiday you [...]
PictureMate Man
She is now the proud co-owner of an Epson PictureMate photo printer. Even though I've only spent about three days with it so far, I'm ready to recommend it to all you Holiday shoppers. I've never owned any kind of photo printer before, so let me explain why I believe it'll appeal to those of [...]
