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Remember the Ultimate Rescue CD next time you’re having blue screen problems… If more security/rescue CDs are of interest, search my blog for "livecd".

Err, I mean getting Wine to run acrodist.exe! Gain some confidence in the possibilities here. Keep digging and you’ll see things like this. 7.0 nope, 6.0 nope, 5.0 nope, 4.0 yup! Sings like a bird via Slax Kill Bill w/n VMWare Workstation. Now how about swapping VMWare for Xen?

Steve Jobs’ June 2005 commencement address at Stanford is an excellent read. Here’s a complete transcript.

There’s a good read in the NYT summarizing a nine year study supporting the safety benefits gained from leaving your children in the back seat! Here’s a snippet from the story (free logon required): A study to be published soon in the Journal of Safety Research, a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the National Safety [...]

Too much stuff and too little space? For a few bucks you can redo your closet with an efficient wire closet system. Some positive reviews here and here. Don’t forget to throw out those old wire hangers.

Handler’s Diary had a good read last month (yea, I’m a little behind on my reading) about the phlethora (haha) of ph-words. Here’s another littlle ditty on pharming. Better late than never…

Greasemonkey (latest in official blog) is a Firefox extension that allows you to hack browser content on the fly — think of it as CSS on steroids. Here’s a good handling in book format, and starter scripts exist here. Nivi shows a glimpse of just how big a deal this is assuming folks “get it”. [...]

Sometimes wish you could go out and paddle, but your paddling buddy isn’t available? Pick up a kayak cart to help with the portage. Here’s a recent review from Canoe and Kayak and a quick list of links from Paddling.net or kayakOnline. The Paddleboy Air Yedo. If you have a few hours, you might consider [...]

Here are some helpful starter links for getting smart… Backyard Flyer R/C Universe – Airplanes R/C Model Airplane FAQ Harness the Wind (gliders rule!) and advise or blog UAVs at Victory Systems or Symetrics (ok, for $50K USD, these probably won’t do as holiday gifts) Voltaire Cube Butterfly Living Room Flyer Ornithopters (bird-like fliers) Wild [...]

If you’re as big a cheapskate as I, then you’re hosting one or more of your domains with GoDaddy. Here’s a couple of useful hacks… Enabling .htaccess (howto)