All Narfed Up photography and words by Bryan Villarin

Archive for July 2005

Finch concert

In Concerts, Music on 29 July 2005 with 2 comments

In Concerts, Music on 29 July 2005 12:34 pm with 2 comments
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I’ll be at the Finch concert tonight at the Henry Fonda Theatre. I think it’s their first day on tour promoting their new CD. Hopefully I can bring my camera with me. If you’re going and you take some pictures, can you put ‘em up on Flickr and tag them? Send me a message, too. [...]

Gmail Notifier 0.5.0

In Asides, Extensions, Firefox on 28 July 2005 with 4 comments

In Asides, Extensions, Firefox on 28 July 2005 1:11 pm with 4 comments
(ID: #671)

The Gmail Notifier Firefox extension is awesome! 0.5.0 is the latest version, and it’s significantly better because the popup (when you hover over it) shows the unread count per label. Very nifty!

Easy coupon storage and purging

In Money, Organization, Tip on 28 July 2005 with no comments

In Money, Organization, Tip on 28 July 2005 10:30 am with no comments
(ID: #662)

If you’ve heard of the Zipster, I have another idea you can use it for. I’m sure you despise bringing a coupon somewhere, only to find out that it’s expired. How aggrivating!
Using the Zipster template, print the tab cards and create one for each month. Store the coupons in the month that they’ll expire. When [...]

Flickr Pro

In Asides, Flickr on 28 July 2005 with no comments

In Asides, Flickr on 28 July 2005 9:39 am with no comments
(ID: #670)

At Flickr, I’ve gone Pro. I’ll be sifting through my photos on my home computer and uploading my good ones later. I’m stoked.

Ducti Triplett

In Asides on 28 July 2005 with 7 comments

In Asides on 28 July 2005 9:18 am with 7 comments
(ID: #669)

In my “whatsinyourbag” photo, I proudly display my Ducti Triplett wallet. I never posted about it when I first got it. For reference, I got mine a tad cheaper through One Cell Short. It’s currently $14.99 + shipping. Their lifetime warranty is a nice kicker, which influenced my Ducti purchase.

Clean install Windows XP efficiently

In Windows XP, nLite on 28 July 2005 with 2 comments

In Windows XP, nLite on 28 July 2005 7:12 am with 2 comments
(ID: #668)

If you haven’t heard of nLite, it enables you to do create a custom Windows XP CD slipstreamed with SP2, hotfixes, and let it all run unattended. You could tweak it further, but it’s a little tricky if you go bonkers on the check boxes. But basically, it helps you save time by not requiring [...]

Top 100 Bloggers

In Asides, Blogging on 27 July 2005 with 5 comments

In Asides, Blogging on 27 July 2005 6:31 pm with 5 comments
(ID: #667)

Jonathan told me to sign up for Top 100 Bloggers a few weeks ago, so I finally did it recently. It’s another way to see other blogs, but it’s more structured than a blogroll on someone’s site. There’s voting, rating, and comments. What’s my problem? It’s not with the system, but with the visitors clicking [...]

Hating the Microsoft Genuine Software check

In Annoying, Microsoft on 27 July 2005 with 1 comment

In Annoying, Microsoft on 27 July 2005 10:56 am with 1 comment
(ID: #664)

I downloaded the Microsoft New Zealand theme Royale at work today. At home, I was able to skip the validation, but I had to do it at work. It took like five minutes just to get through the process of getting to the download page!
I was listening to the TWiT podcast episode 14 the [...]

What I bring to work

In Gear, Photos on 27 July 2005 with 2 comments

In Gear, Photos on 27 July 2005 12:33 am with 2 comments
(ID: #663)

Just posting this like I promised!

Who’s calling from Canada?

In Annoying, Asides on 26 July 2005 with 15 comments

In Annoying, Asides on 26 July 2005 1:41 pm with 15 comments
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Someone just tried calling me right now, but I didn’t answer. A 604 area code traces to Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada. Who knows me from there? I think my uncle lives in Montreal, so it can’t be him. I don’t see a voicemail message indicator, so I’m kinda burned. I guess if it was important, [...]