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No, seriously. On the drive from Conbust to the airport we shared a van with Jennie Breedon and got talking about various bizarrenesses that we’ve been watching recently. Turns out, she’s an occasional fan of the BBC show “Top Gear.” We spotted that it was on the TV this evening and got hooked ourselves. Where else can you see a guy in a high-end sports car racing across the marshes of southern England against someone on foot – and LOSING? Or a group of touring car racers taking their RVs out on the track instead?

Seriously, it’s the funniest car show on TV. Go watch it if you get a chance.

There’s a bit of debate going on in my Wife’s office about which was the better movie, Transformers or the latest Harry Potter. Personally, I think it’s a toss-up since they are, in essence, the exact same movie dressed up in different clothes.

This could involve some spoilers for those of you who haven’t seen the movies, so the faint of heart should turn back now.

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Scott Kurtz (of PVP Online fame) just posted about a utility called Teleport that he was recently turned-on to. I ran across this software gem a while ago and forgot about it, but it’s really cool and needs more publicity. Basically, if you’ve got two macs, this lets you link them up over a network so that you can just move the mouse from one screen to another, controlling both computers with a single mouse & keyboard. Continue reading →

In an amazing coincidence, the recipe management program that I’ve been using for all of my bread-making needs just got a major overhaul to version 2.0.

I’ve raved about this one before. Yum is a nifty little gadget from NIXANZ Software – one of my favorite little one-dude shareware production houses. Nick Sands (the head honcho) wrote the eminently nifty Snail Mail program. The one that made assembling my wedding invites and return envelopes an amazingly painless affair.

So, if you’ve got a Mac and like cooking, go get Yum! And toss a few bucks in his PayPal jar too. He deserves it.

Let’s say, just as an example here, that you do a lot of video work, including DVD authoring. Further, let’s say you have an old project that you need to use part of. And, sadly, the hard drive with the only backup of your original project has died with a horrible whining crunch.

Enter MPEG Streamclip.
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Very nice office lunch today, our at Zingerman’s Roadhouse. I don’t know if I mentioned the place before, and I’m lazy enough right now to not search my own archives to check. I had a very good fish and chips, although they called it “Bell’s Beer Battered Cod and Roadhouse Fries”. It was extremely tasty. I’m not sure it was $14 worth of tasty, but it was darn close.
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Has it been almost two years since I last sang the praises of Nixanz software? How remiss of me.

For those of you with elephantine memories, that’s the company which made the software which made addressing tons of wedding invites so incredibly easy. They also make a really cool recipe book program called “Yum!”
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Saw the most recent Star Wars movie on Saturday. Last night we got talking about it with folks at my sister’s game. More specifically, we got talking about how to talk about a movie without giving away too much to people who haven’t seen it yet…

On the other hand, there are some obvious “safe” spoilers:

Anakin turns to the dark side!

Padme has twins!

Obi-Wan, Yoda, C3P0 and R2D2 all survive at the end of the film!

I’ve been playing around with a new program: Delicious Library by Delicious Monster. Not only does their company have a really cool name, but the program does some really cool things. Basically, it’s a library management program. It helps you track your books, DVDs, CDs and video games. It’s useful for tracking who has borrowed what and when (which is why we’re looking at it for the expanded office environment). But the really cool thing is how it handles data entry.
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