I love spotlight in OS X. I don’t use it to search for things a lot, but I am always using it to launch programs. It’s simple. I just hit Command+Space, type a few letters of the app I want to launch and bingo, the app in launched. When I am using my Windows PC it’s a pain in the ass searching through the Start Menu for the program I want to launch. Well, that is a thing of the past. Today I discovered Launchy. It works just like spotlight, but it’s for Windows. Now I can start any program with just a couple of keystrokes.

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When is it going to warm up?

So lately I have been noticing my eyesight getting a little worse. It’s not too bad. I can read everything close up. I just have a problem reading fast food menus and the guide on the TV. So last week I went to the eye doctor for the first time ever. It was pretty cool. I found out my eyes weren’t that bad, but I am a little nearsighted. The Doc said I didn’t need glasses, but wrote me out a prescription just in case I wanted them. If If was bothering me that I can’t see very well. I think I am going to get a pair. It’s going to be weird, but it’s a pain in the ass not being able to see fast food menus.

So Windows Vista came out today. Part of me wants to upgrade because I always want to have the latest and the greatest. I think I am going to wait a bit though. I played around with the beta of Vista, and it looks pretty cool, but doesn’t really add anything I don’t already have. I don’t use my Windows PC all that much. It does it’s job running my Windows Apps. I don’t think I would be gaining much upgrading to Vista, but I still want to. It’s killing me.

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A guy at work this weekend was talking about this amazing shot by a UND hockey player or a crappy Minnesota goalie depending on your point of view. Today I found the shot on YouTube. Too bad the YouTube compression is so bad you can hardly see the puck.

As if my life wasn’t busy enough, my Mom just asked me if I could make a website for her work. Of course I said yes. I hope I can do a good enough job. My web coding skills aren’t the best. I know about enough to get by. I will get paid for it though, so that could be cool.

Part of me wishes I had a more popular blog.

Part of me is glad I don’t.

Part of me wants to be open and blog about real personal stuff.

Part of me wants me to keep the personal stuff to me.

Part of me wishes I had the will and time to make a podcast.

Part of me knows that I am microphone and camera shy so the podcast thing wouldn’t work.

Sometimes wish I could blog from the shower. I always have things to blog about in the shower. Once I am out of the shower I have nothing.

Right now I am debating whether or not to subscribe to XBox Live Gold. I probably will. My free subscription expires the end of the month. It’s kinda fun to play against people online. I just wish it wasn’t so spendy. It’s actually not that bad, but it will set us back $100. $50 per person for the year sounds like a lot, but it is only just over $4 a person per month.

Now I am off to upgrade to WordPress 2.1. If something breaks that’s why.

**Update**
Wordpress 2.1 is up and running. You gotta love WordPress. It’s gotta be the easiest blogging software to install.

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It’s crazy how popular podcasting has became. You can find podcasts for almost every topic. I just ran across a podcast that shows you how to masturbate. If for some strange reason you don’t know how. They have episodes for people with boy parts or girl parts. Links NSFW of course.

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I always have a hard time to find time to read. It feels weird to me if I am not doing more than one thing at once. Right now I am listening to a podcast (Dawn and Drew), reading my rss feeds on one computer, and blogging on another. That’s three things. Books require all my attention hence I never get around to them.

This weekend I read a book at work. I am working nights, and they are very slow. I finally got around to reading King Dork by Frank Portman. It’s a great book. The best one I have read this year. So what if it’s also the only book I have read so far this year. It’s a great book. The first review on the back of the book nails it:

This book is for you if you’re in a band or wish you were, if you loved or hated The Catcher in the Rye, if you’ve ever spoken Francais or Franglais, or if your high school has or had a dumb mascot. Basically, if you are a human being with even a vague grasp of the English language, King Dork will rock your world.
-John Green, author of Looking for Alaska

If the name Frank Portman doesn’t ring a bell, Dr. Frank should….or maybe not, but it should. Dr. Frank is the lead singer of The Mr. T Experience. They are a great band that I have loved for many years.

Dr. Frank also has a blog. I have been reading his blog for years too. Now I just have to get a picture taken so I can be in the Dork Gallery.

“King Dork” (Frank Portman)

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