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In the past two months I have been using amaroK as my main music player.
Why have I chosen amaroK? It has a beavy of features. Many of which are not available on any platform or not in any other single player.
Check out some of its coolest features.
Update: I just found the coolest feature in amaroK. [...]

In high school(4 years ago) I was required by some teachers to have only a certain number of citations from a number of given source type(encyclopedia entries, magazine/newspaper articles, internet sites, or books).
To get around that stipulation I would at times take an article from one format and shift it to the other. This occured [...]

Mark Cuban the owner of the Dallas Mavricks has his own weblog. Recently he posted two posts about the forthcoming MGM vs. Grokster case that is going before the Supreme Court.
He has some very pertinent points:

Technology has advanced and gone further than any of us could have imagined over the last 20 years. Go [...]

Wordpress 1.5 is now available(download).
So far I really like the new theme system. It will make it alot easier to integrate wordpress into the rest of my site seamlessly. I have been pretty lax about actually making wordpress look like the rest of my site. Real soon now I will accomplish that goal and either [...]

While surfing around tonight I found FFR(Flash Flash Revolution). It really tests your keyboard dexterity. Though I would bet most people use the site with a gamepad of some type. It is pretty interesting to try it just using the keyboard.
I am not that great at it. Though eventually I could get better. I also [...]

So tonight I was working on my compilers project. Josh had made a Makefile for the project but it wasn’t working.
Eventually we traced the error back to a ~/ in the file. Make doesn’t like that relative path, once it was changed to the absolute path everything was peachy.
I then remember back to this past [...]

This years version of Intuit TurboTax for the Web doesn’t like Linux at all. They won’t allow any browser in by default. Last year it worked just fine with Galeon on my Debian x86 box.
I went and added the user-agent plugin to my installation of Firefox and tried the IE setting. Unfortunately Intuit TurboTax uses [...]

Cory Doctorow has written an interesting post on boingboing.net about DRM. The post goes into why people who write reviews of products that include DRM should provide a warning that the product contains DRM and its functionality could change at any future point.
Cory wrote a few different posts on DRM in the past few days [...]

A while back I found out about bloglines.com. It is a web based RSS/Atom feed aggregator. Besides aggregating the many feeds that I have it also offers suggestions about different feeds that I might be interested in based on what feeds I have subscribed to.
Check out my public feed:
http://www.bloglines.com/public/spi
Since it is web based it is [...]

Right when I need my computer to just work it doesn’t. The power supply died(after 3 years of 24/7 work) and it took the CPU and motherboard with it. So now I get to wait until early next week before I get a computer that I can use. Definately not the most opportune time with [...]