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I'm Michael Koby, and I love technology. I'm also a programmer, currently doing Ruby on Rails development for a small Houston startup. Here I talk about technology, programming, politics, movies, music, and anything else I feel I need to talk about. If you would like to know more, you can check out the About page.Popular Series
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Monthly Archives: March 2007
links for 2007-03-22
Code Markup: a WordPress plugin » Semicolon (tags: wordpress plugin blogging) WordPress – From Install to Pimped Out (tags: blogging wordpress tips hacks) Scott H Young » Double Your Reading Rate (tags: reading speedreading lifehacks)
Mp3s & UltraID3Lib
As I started listening to my music this morning, I notice something odd in MediaMonkey. My album art was all kinds of messed up. I am not totally sure how this happened, but my album art was not right. Fortunately, … Continue reading
Using WebApps and U3 to Keep Your Hard Drive Clean
We are all guilty of it. Every single one of us (myself included) have installed unnecessary applications onto our computers. We install a program, use it once, and then forget about it until we get low on that precious hard drive space. It is at the point that we receive that low drive space warning that we open up the Add/Remove Applications Control Panel applet in Windows and begin purging those programs we do not use anymore. Those one off deals that we only needed that one time, to do that one thing. We even eventually reinstall our computers from the base operating system on up so that we can have a fresh start, no more unneeded applications. So this week, we are going to look at utilizing two methods to help keep those hard drives clean and those installed programs down to a minimum.
links for 2007-03-21
IGN: Ultimate Bookshelf 2.0: Daredevil (tags: comics daredevil reference)
From the “Wha?” Department
Kevin Federline, you know the guy that used to be married to Britney Spears, now has his own search engine. This is definitely a case of “how can I keep myself in the forefront of people’s mind now that I’m … Continue reading
Will Someone PLEASE Think of the Children
This saying is always so funny to me. That one little quote has started so many battles, legal and otherwise. Because of it we have the “Parental Advisory” sticker on music albums, we have a movie rating system, a video game rating system, and a TV rating system. We have V-chips and cyber-nannies. Our children have to be in car seats until they are practically old enough to drive. And heaven forbid they ride their bicycles without helmets, knee pads, and elbow pads.
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