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I just listened to the latest episode of the Engadget Podcast. It was their 100th episode. They had Lenn Pryor and Phillip Torrone back on. They were the orginal hosts back when the podcast started in October of 2004. That was the same month that I started listening to podcasts. I can’t believe it’s been that long already. I love what Peter and Ryan are doing with the podcast, but I do miss the days of Lenn and PT.

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If you haven’t noticed I have a bunch of different RSS feeds in my sidebar. If you are only subscribed to my blog feed you are missing out on a lot of the stuff I am doing online. I am always adding stuff to my link blog, digging stuff, bookmarking things, and occasionally taking pictures.

Last night I finally got a chance to play around with Yahoo Pipes. It looks pretty cool and powerful. I couldn’t think of anything to make with it though, so I just made a “Total Tinkr” RSS feed. you can now subscribe to all my feeds in just one feed.

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I am one of those people that never remembers their dreams. I don’t remember too much of my dream last night, but I do remember what it was about. CSS. WTF? Who dreams about CSS? I guess I have been spending to much time working on the new design for my Fantasy Football site. I need to find a hobby that produces better dreams. CSS does not make for an exciting dream. If I had better dreams it wouldn’t matter anyways though since I never remember them. I wonder what I will dream about tonight? HTML? PHP? Who knows? I probably won’t remember it anyways.

Ok, I waited long enough. I finally broke down and installed Windows Vista. I didn’t want to install it on my Windows XP machine because I just recently installed XP and I didn’t feel like reinstalling all my windows software. The only other computer that I have that is powerful enough to run Vista is my MacBook. I love the way Boot Camp handles the partitioning and the dual booting. It is so easy to run Windows on Macs now. Windows Vista seems nice. I still prefer OS X, but Vista is a nice upgrade to XP if you have a powerful enough computer.

It annoys me when people say it is cold out and it is in the 20ºs. Our cold streak has finally ended (for the year I hope). We just went through 15 days straight where it was barely above zero for the highs and way below zero for the lows. You don’t know what cold is until you feel a -20º day (not counting wind-chill, that is cheating). I was outside earlier today and was surprised how warm 7º feels. it is up to 12º now. If it breaks into the 20ºs I will be tempted to break out the shorts. Florida is going to feel so nice in two weeks.

I hate FM transmitters. I think they all work and sound like crap. To listen to my iPod in my truck I have the old fashion tape deck converter, which works great. When I drive the wife’s Jeep, I have to suffer with a FM transmitter if I want to listen to my iPod. That will soon be a thing of the past. Today we are getting an 1/8″ inch jack installed into the dash. The stock stereo in the Jeep has an input in the back to make this possible. We are heading out of town for the weekend, and it will be really nice not to have to mess with the crappy FM transmitters.

Akismet is awesome. It blocks 99.99% of all my comment spam. Today was one of the rare days where one slipped through. It was a weird one though. It was just a link to Google. Why would you spam a link to Google? I don’t think Google needs any “Google Juice”. Sometimes I just don’t get the point of some spam.

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I am not a big fan of buying flowers. They are totally too expensive and they die in a week. So of course I hate Valentine’s Day even worse. I swear they jack up the prices of flowers for that day too. That being said, my wife love to get flowers, and see gets super crabby is she doesn’t get them on VD. So of corse I spent the $70 on some stupid flowers (the internet sure makes it less painful these days). She is happy, which makes it a good day for me too. How was your V Day?

Last week our Tivo had a brain fart and didn’t download Survivor. It’s one of the few shows I watch. So of course whenever Tivo misses something I just download it. Then I usually burn it to a DVD. This time I thought I would just convert it to a WMV file and watch it on the XBox 360. I didn’t realize how hard it was to find a program that converts to WMV. I found one that did, but the quality was to bad. I finally found a use for the crappy Windows Movie Maker. I just imported Survivor and then Windows Movie Maker converted it to a WMV file. It was still crappy quality, but watchable. I think I will be burning it to DVD from now on until I find a decent program to convert files to WMV.

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So you know the latest Nickelback song that they play on the radio. I think it’s called Rockstar or something. I kinda like it. Sure it sounds like every crappy Nickelback song just with different lyrics, but I kinda like the lyrics.