All Narfed Up photography and words by Bryan Villarin

I love it. My mom’s finally getting down to business with getting our clutter cleaned up. She just came into the living room and said, “Okay, Friday, we’re gonna move a bunch of our stuff into storage.” Basically, write it down in ink, get a truck, and get psyched. This is a big project. Before and after pictures will be made. I’ll be needing to borrow a truck. I’m excited!

Hey Mark, I’m not sure how you replied to me within the coComment interface, but that’s not cool - I can’t figure out how to do that. Oh yeah, and your site has no trace of your email address. What’s up with that?

This is a placeholder for my review for a AnyCom HS-777 Bluetooth headset I should be getting tomorrow. It features:

• Up to 12 hours talk time
• Bluetooth 1.2 compatible
• Up to 200 hours standby time

At the moment, it’s only $25.99 at Amazon. (Thanks for the heads up, Irwin!)

The same Philips DVP642 DVD player I’ve been using to enjoy downloaded TV shows (via BitTorrent) is available at the Philips Outlet for $29.99 shipped. That’s half of what I paid for mine - how awesome is that? I think everyone should have one of these, they’re that good. (Golf clap: Passwird Deals for Thursday, 2/16/06)

Related posts:

• My first thoughts about the Philips DVP642
• Multisession disc support

External links:

• Video Help review
• Steve Bass recommendation

Letterfu: Letter-writing without envelopes, cutting or glue

I’ll probably be using this for a few thank-you notes I need to be sending out from last weekend’s camp. Actually, if people seem to like it, I’ll keep on using these templates elsewhere. If you’re thinking of using this GTD-style (for thank-you notes on a more regular basis), print a bunch of these and keep them with some stamps in a folder. Sweet.

I don’t know how I stumbled onto No Title, but I’m glad I did. It seems that there’s a simple way to add Technorati Tags onto posts. I’m currently using Post tags 1.0 by Sam Angove, but I’ve got so many categories on my site, there’s too much to look through and maintain. Guess how many I count within my WordPress Control Panel? 371! (Don’t worry, I didn’t count them by hand. I copied and pasted all the categories into a text document, then selected all of the rows for numbering.)

Perhaps I could go back to using general categories, then with these tools I could narrow the general content of the post? Any thoughts on this?

On my spiffy Philips DVP642 DivX-Certified Progressive-Scan DVD Player, I just found out that multisession discs are supported. So why is that cool? Because if you have some videos you want to watch on your TV, but they won’t fill up the CD-R (in my case), I can add more later. I’ll probably put a circle and fill it in according to how much space is left on the CD, and that’ll help with the mess of CDs around the DVD player.

I wrote this because I’ve got three episodes of “Beauty and the Geek 2″, and my mom and I were catching up on them. Each of them are 350MB/episode.

This is the morning of camp (where I’ll be gone from Friday afternoon until Monday afternoon). I’m in charge, panic hasn’t ensued, and I hope it never rears its ugly head.

As I complete these tasks, I’ll either cross them off or rip them up. I’ll be a good feeling once we’re moving.

Thanks goes to Charlie Parsons at Mount Kare, because he’s been very positive and supportive towards me. Well off I go! (This was posted here because it’s GTD, but the other stuff will be back at Bryan Off Topic.)

I’ve been messing with 30 Boxes for the past couple days, and it’s not too shabby. The web integration with other sites is pretty cool, such as my local weather and upcoming.org. Adding new items is easy, too. In my opinion, it’s simple elegance.

However, my main gripe is that I can’t import my calendar from my Tungsten E/Palm Desktop program. Synchronizing it would be even better. But, I’m pretty sure the developers (Julie, Narendra, and Nick) will get there eventually. For now, they’re just trying to get the bugs worked out, and I’m okay with that. At the moment, I’ve got two weeks entered into my calendar and I’ll just go by that for now.

It’ll be awhile until I pass this onto my friends. But, I have faith in these developers. Things seem to be moving along quite nicely, so as long as they’re plugging away at bugs and features, I’ll keep trying to find things to say in the 30 Boxes forums. If you’re trying it out, you better do the same…

Each day I go to work, I plug my iPod into my office PC to listen while I work. I use iTunes, but change iPod options to “Manually manage songs and playlists“. Why? So my iPod doesn’t get wiped out, and the iScrobbler plugin can update my listening habits to my Last.fm account.

This morning, I accidently changed the iPod options to “Enable disk use“, and left it to “Automatically update selected playlists only“. The problem with that is that on my office computer, there isn’t any! Fortunately, I brought my external hard drive, which also has all my music backed up onto it. After changing my iPod options to “Manually manage songs and playlists” (the way it should be), I’m copying most of my music back onto it. When I get back home, I’ll just resynchronize it. At least I won’t have a quiet commute, right?

Edit: Oh yeah, while it’s been copying, I’ve been listening to music off my external HD with Coolplayer. I haven’t used that program in awhile. Ah, memories.