Middle-click on a Thinkpad

I think I’m the only person on the planet who actually likes and uses the trackpoint thingy consistently. I’ve never liked it on other laptops, but I’ve always been a huge fan of the way the Thinkpad trackpoint mice worked. I was getting cygwin X working on my Windows 7 W510 today, and tried jumping [...]

Stupid MS Word Tricks

I do a lot of thinking/brainstorming using Mindjet MindManager, a fantastic mind-mapping application. Lately I’ve been doing a lot of copy-paste from MindManager into Microsoft Word. Although copy-paste preserves the hierarchy of the objects in a mind map, it does so using leading spaces instead of tabs. I started deleting leading spaces manually and then [...]

Gmail is the best mail client ever

Even better than pine. And I was damned fast with pine. As fast as Case was (is?) with mutt. Seriously. Anyway, I clicked a mailto: link tonight and OUTLOOK freakin’ opened. I asked Google how to remedy this and it sent me here: http://blog.bn.ee/2008/09/04/make-mailto-links-open-in-gmail-in-google-chrome-browser-windows-xp-and-vista/ Just tried it, works like a charm. Yay lifehacker stuff.

Router upgrade ftw

We recently upgraded to a bigger Charter package (Verizon is in my area but they have no fiber in the ground so FIOS is not a possibility) that should have gotten us something like 20mbps down and 2 up. G noticed that we were only getting like 11/1.5. She took the router out of the [...]

Testing mobile blogging capability

This is a test of the wordpress app for the iPwn. Here is a pic of my dog.