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So there’s a couple cool tools on Amazon now:

Amazon Credits You – A web site that does the work for you in seeing if a price goes down at Amazon. Good stuff!

Making A Better iCal – Adds automatic alarms for iCal, which isn’t a bad idea at all.

Millennium Music iPod exchange program – Now you can trade CD’s for a real iPod … kinda defeats the purpose of backing up your OWN music, eh? I LOVE IT!

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No link sadly, I’ll have to find one.

Anyways, the only thing more annoying then being stuck in traffic, is being able to see why you are stuck in traffic and being able to do nothing about it. This is my Thursday AM for ya. More later.

Ok, here’s the more! Basically, I’m driving down I-75 and about to hit I-74 when I run into a traffic jam all of a sudden. I look ahead and about a tenth of a mile up the road is what appears to be a car that’s not just on fire, but it’s REALLY on fire! Turns out, it was a semi truck (no bed), but if I had gone through that intersection one minute previous, I would not have gotten stuck, but that’s how luck is.

Hopefully I won’t have a similar story on Friday when I drive to Columbus!!

These are mostly programs for the web … I’d love ideas on how I can use these wisely!

http://numsum.com/

Collaborative writing software online with Writeboard. Write, share, revise, compare.

http://www.webjillion.com/

Writely – The Web Word Processor

http://www.trackslife.com/

I was going through my old Data Files yesterday when I stumbled upon these old “fanzines”, which was the preferred method of independent video game information before the dawn of web sites. O actually used to write for one which went out in the mail when I was 12, so that’s dating myself quite a bit!

Anyways, this one’s called Game Master Journal, and I posted the 6 editions I had files for to the web for everyone’s perusal, they’re all dated from 1994, so you can imagine the fun of now the SNES and Genesis being in gear, the dawn of the (failed) Jaguar, and the “Ultra 64″ on the way as it was called. Check these out:

http://rapidshare.de/files/9990554/Game_Master_Journal__39.txt.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/9990581/Game_Master_Journal__40.txt.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/9990686/Game_Master_Journal__42.txt.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/9990770/Game_Master_Journal__43.txt.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/9990802/Game_Master_Journal__44.txt.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/9990826/Game_Master_Journal__52.txt.html

Enjoy!

Here’s a brand new set of links for 12/27/05 … some are new, some not so much.

As always, if there’s no text by it, I’m gonna look at it later.

http://www.lifehacker.com/software/hack-attack/hack-attack-new-years-todos-145101.php – A New Year’s To Do List from Lifehacker and getting ready for the year ahead.

http://www.lifehacker.com/software/remote-computing/hack-attack-take-your-data-home-for-the-holidays-143983.php – Taking your data on the road with you on a Holday trip. I do some of these things and it’s proven to be a huge help, here and at work.

http://www.lifehacker.com/software/mind-hacks/stop-procrastinating-with-the-abundance-mentality-143572.php – The “Abundance Mentality” which can help with proctastinaiton.

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/good-and-bad-procrastination.html – An article on good and bad procrastination.

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/a-tiny-technique-for-blocked-task-madness.html – A tiny technique for blocked-task madness (which I might want to take into account on tournament jobs)

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This weekend was fun from a gaming sense. No, I didn’t get an Box 360 … and I didn’t even feel the need to play Mario Kart DS at all.

Nope. Instead, I got my grubby little hands on a 1.5 version PSP and played two of my favorite NES sports games of all time: RBI Baseball and Tecmo Bowl / Tecmo Super Bowl! These two games weren’t complicated but still were just enjoyable 15-20 minute diversions of a sports nature at any given time. I owned them as a kid and still enjoy playing these two games to this day (somewhere in my mess of insanity, I have a boxed Tecmo Super Bowl and Tecmo Bowl too, very near and dear to my collection!)

In that tradition, I offer up a pair of great links to sites:

http://www.famssu.com/tecmo/ – Nice Tecmo Super Bowl fan site, if as much for the links to online leagues and editors as for anything else.

http://dee-nee.com/rbi/ – Great extremely detailed page on RBI Baseball, detailing even “house rules” and tendancies of players, as well as a ton of roster edits (and how to do your own too)

* Airset seems like a very very cool little program to share calendars to the world, in a multitude of formats. I’m trying to use it for a National Halo and Perfect Dark Zero calendar, but we’ll see how that goes.

* I just stumbled on this hint: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20051211070333671 – I have been using my Mac as a way to share an Internet connection and set up a make-do Access Point for my Nintendo WFC and for my other PC’s. I may use it tonight when I go to my grandparents’ so I can use my PSP and other goodies from the basement. Apparently there’s some questions still but maybe this will allow IP’s to automatically dole out instead of me having to do manual setting.

Here’s the cool stuff for today:

Property Records for Insurance? Use the internet. – This is an awesome idea and one I might work on soon. Of course, to index a full video game collection, that will take thousands of pictures. The advantage however would be easy sale when that day comes around to eBay the collection.

!note bookmarklet – A quick way to take text you’ve selected and save it to your Yahoo! Notepad, which I think will prove to be quite a handy device indeed.

MinimizeToTray This extension allows you to minimize FireFox to the system tray instead of a taskbar. If Desktop space is a big deal, this is a good place to start from.

Hard to Find 800 Numbers (Stephen could have used this at the store a bunch of times) – Doesn’t have a ton of numbers but the ones it has are awful nice.

Performancing (Blogging extension that gives you a split screen effect)

Feedping.com (I can use this to send my blog to lots of places)

Indeed Launches IM Interface (This may be what I don’t need, IM’s and job hunting together. Doesn’t that get you in trouble?)

Sorting your email with GMail (I saw this the other day, but it’s disposable e-mail, without the worrisome setup and time)

To-do List (Google now supports a to-do list … of course, I have to put adding that on ANOTHER to-do list)

8 Cool Firefox Plugins You Never Knew Existed (I missed this one, but this will make those rapidshare links much much easier!)

Google free proxy! (If you can’t access a page on your local Intranet, use this method to beat it. Google should be smart enough to know that translating from English to English is a bit dumb, mmmkay?)

So I have had a project for a while now to take sound from an emulator and output it to a file … I’ve been meaning to do it forever. Now, I might be able to do it with my Mac, no issues at all.

Here’s a couple of programs I need to try:

Soundflower: http://www.cycling74.com/products/soundflower.html

StreamRipper: http://streamripper.sourceforge.net/

This is the hint that led me to looking all of this stuff up: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20051219161639252

Next on my list is how to do this for free on a PC, so I can use both my laptops for this purpose.