http://www.stickyc.com Hanging out at the speed of light... Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:31:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Since I've not posted in 4 months, I figure it's OK to break the "geek news" theme of the site and post something more or less completely irrelevant. A short writeup of cooking bacon on the George Foreman grill... Steps? What steps? Put bacon on grill, cook ~5 minutes, flip, cook ~3 ... http://www.stickyc.com/2008/01/20/cooking-bacon-on-the-george-foreman-grill/ This Is Mind Candy: Frivolity : PrakBot Okay, so it's just Hitchhikers' Guide right now, the key is that these guys have wired a Z-Machine (thats the interpreter) engine to a Jabber front end, so in theory, you could play all the old Infocom text games. http://www.stickyc.com/2007/09/01/play-infocom-games-via-jabber/ I thought I'd blogged this before, but couldn't find it in the archives... Chris Ilias’ Blog » Keeping threaded view in Thunderbird Users of Mozilla Thunderbird, may have noticed that if you are viewing messages in threaded view, clicking on a column name (other than the thread column) will turn off threaded ... http://www.stickyc.com/2007/08/30/chris-ilias%e2%80%99-blog-%c2%bb-keeping-threaded-view-in-thunderbird/ Did you know that you can add multiple destination addresses in Google Maps to create a route? And did you know that you could drag addresses up and down on the left pane to re-arrange the route? How cool is that? http://www.stickyc.com/2007/05/08/i-learned-something-cool-about-google-maps-today/ Today is March 6th, 2007. Check out the email that I got a few minutes ago... Your rebate submission for "Fry's 10/6/06 - 11/2/06 54G & MIMO Router MIRs" has been processed and your check will be mailed shortly. Please allow 2 weeks for completion. Ironically, I bought the router for faster WiFi, ... http://www.stickyc.com/2007/03/07/d-link-rebates-its-like-christmas-all-over-again/ The Green Button - S3 Standby - Hardware & Software solution How to set up your PC so the fans go to sleep when you put it on standby. http://www.stickyc.com/2007/02/18/the-green-button-s3-standby-hardware-software-solution/ Sling TV offering comes to Palm phones - Yahoo! News AWESOME! Slingbox was one of those "gee, this Slingbox thing might be cool" purchases that has paid off in spades (much the same as "gee, this TiVo thing might be cool" has). I end up using the Slingbox all the time ... http://www.stickyc.com/2007/01/08/sling-tv-offering-comes-to-palm-phones-yahoo-news/ Thank you for polluting my search results, Knowledgestorm and Bitpipe. Thank you so very much for taking up 54 of the first 100 hits for "Mail archive software" with your meta-search results. It's bad enough you've cloned your page to a dozen or so server aliases on your own domains, ... http://www.stickyc.com/2006/12/13/knowledgestorm-and-bitpipe-suck/ I managed to badger my roomie into picking up the external HD-DVD drive for his Xbox 360 - I think it was the Army of Darkness HD-DVD that did it (alas, not Dune in HD). Quick Notes - Wow! The picture is awesome. I used to think DirecTV's HD feeds kinda ... http://www.stickyc.com/2006/12/08/short-review-of-xbox-360-hd-dvd/ Peter Miller - Magnetic Yellow Card Peter Miller's come up with an elegant solution to a problem I've been wrestling with as a while - how to let cagers know they're driving like jackasses without actually calling them jackasses (which usually ends up in escalating hostility). Magnetic Yellow Cards that can ... http://www.stickyc.com/2006/12/06/peter-miller-magnetic-yellow-card/