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Phelps, Kobe, A-Rod, and Tony Hawk in Guitar Hero Commercial

October 30th, 2008 Posted in Random | No Comments »

Guitar Hero Kobe Bryant Michael Phelps Alex Rodriguez Tony Hawk World Tour Commercial. This is possibly one of the best commercials I’ve seen in a while. Check it out!

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Free The Airwaves

October 23rd, 2008 Posted in Technology | No Comments »

Everyone should check out the Google Blog Post about freeing the airwaves during the November 4th elections.  Please help me and others ensure that we will be able to vote on this initiative by signing the petition here.

FreeTheAirwaves.com

Don’t Vote - 5 Friends Spoof

October 9th, 2008 Posted in Random | No Comments »

Spoof of the Leonardo DiCaprio video with sarcastic celebrities telling you why you should vote.

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Don’t Vote

October 6th, 2008 Posted in Random | No Comments »

A cavalcade of Hollywood stars give Americans a dozen reasons not to visit the polls this November.

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Samurize

September 29th, 2008 Posted in Technology | No Comments »

I recently started using a program called Samurize on my work PC.  Samurize is an incredibly versatile program that lets you setup desktop configurations to do just about anything.  You can install plugins to pull data from various sources, write your own, or customize the installed plugins to get whatever you want out of it.  I’ve tried various configurations before I settled on the one I use now.  

I originally set one up as a Google Desktop sidebar replacement, including a full calendar, date, time, weather, system info, etc.  I decided that this was taking up more space on my screen than I would like so I moved it to a taskbar replacement version.  This version has much of the same information (minus the weather) but is in the space of a two row taskbar.  As you can see by the screenshots on Flickr (original post and updated versions), it takes up very little space on my screen when combined with an auto-hide taskbar.

For those interested in the config files, here is the original and updated versions for you to download.