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Can anyone tell me why Windows Media Player (version 9 for OS X) always decides to shit on me:

It really doesn’t matter what I do with it, after about two weeks after I install it, I get lots of these “Windows Media Player has crashed” error windows whenver I try to open a WMV file [...]

My friend, Drew Moynihan launched a new website this week: Loftywords.com. Loftywords.com is a website that’ll follow the loft industry and the loft lifestyle as it progresses across the country…
Congrts to Drew in his new endeavor… pretty cool that he’s hanging his own shingle out there again, and I wish him the best [...]

Great image:
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I just love that image. It’s from the movie Alexander in case you haven’t seen it… that image comes from a major battle almost half way through the film…
update: Just finished the 2nd half of the movie… damn good story.

Performing searches for information today is still a mess. Sure, Google is a great start-point for general information. Yahoo does a great job of giving us search results for commercial queries as well, but pinpointing information about a small company, or the history of a company is generally a tough proposition.
I blame this [...]

I just got an email from a potential client I’m in Chicago to visit this morning:
John,
I hate to do this to you last minute, but [my boss], who is the person that really wanted to see you, has been pulled into an all day sales meeting, so can we reschedule?
Thanks,
xxxxx
Our meeting is schedule to start [...]

I’ve so got to do what is described in this article: Turning Wordpress Into A Tag-Based Blogging Application to OnAustin.com. That’s how I originally envisioned doing OnAustin, just didn’t have the time to think it all up.

Since the ol’ iBook G3 700Mhz machine died two weeks ago, I’ve contemplated a few options for getting it fixed and/or getting the hard drive out of it, to get the data off of it.
First, understand that this is still a useable computer, and it’d be nice to have another laptop in the family. [...]

Is your computer thrashing around, and you can’t figure out what’s got it hung up?
Read this article from the guy behind MacOSXHints.com. In it, Rob details what fsusage is, and how you might use it to troubleshoot a particularly weird nagging application problem.

I just read this great article over on Entrepreneur.com:
From those 70,000 catalogs sent to people who had never dealt with us before, we’d earn about $70,000 in sales or just about $1 per catalog. Considering that it cost about a $1 just to produce, print and mail each catalog, you’d be right to bet this [...]

Olivier Travers asks a good question here: Are broken contact forms acceptable?
I say no. What do you say?
And, to point out, I finally met Olivier two weeks ago when he came to visit me in Austin. I wish I could have spent more time with he and his wife.

Wanna make sure that an add shows up on your site when Google’s Adsense can’t deliver an ad? Want it to look similar, and deliver results for you?
Use AGAR.
Cool.

Here’s a cool little application for those of you that use a laptop: coconutBattery.
What does it do you might ask?
Well, it provides all sorts of neat little details about your battery:
What this image to the right tells me is…
that my battery’s current charge is about 88% of the total available charge it can hold…
that my [...]

I took the iBook to the Apple Store Genius bar the other day (they do diagnostics on broken stuff for free). After waiting a few minutes, the genius booted it up on his first try. I was stunned. Absolutely stunned. He smiled.
Then I said “do it again” (I’ve been trying to [...]

The iBook is busted again… I think it’s past the 3 year AppleCare Warranty period with it. It won’t even boot up. At all. I have no idea what’s wrong with it.
I’ll call AppleCare in the morning. And because it’s so damned hard to find their phone number on [...]

Prompted by my buddy Josh’s latest lament on the failings of Podcasting (and radio in Austin, for him), I figured I’d write up my feelings about Podcasting, and a cool little tool I’ve found that I think will help my iPod serve me better.
I too don’t really listen to many Podcasts for very long, primarily [...]

For those of you that know me… you know that I was in the Army and National Guard in the past, so you might hear me say the word “Hooah,” but you might not know what it means… so here’s a definition for you (you won’t find it in the Dictionary):

Hooah (whoı-a) part. {slang, Army [...]

‘The following song is sung to the tune of the Baylor Fight Song by Aggies everywhere:
That good ol’ Baylor line
We’re 40 points behind
We’re gonna lose another game
Our team’s a waste of time
The coach sends in the play
To hear the church bells chime
We’re gonna lose another game
That good old Baylor line.
Just wanted to share that with [...]

I found this Upload to FTP Automator tool. And wow, this will probably be the first Automator script I’ve used, for this one example of what it does:
2. Resize images and upload
A handy workflow to resize images for the web and upload them to your standard image folder on your server. It also copies the [...]