I’ve been in a training class all week, and have found using a USB thumb drive to be an excellent way to carry around a few small apps — Portable Firefox and Putty — for use on a machine that I don’t control and that I might not use the next day.

Here’s a list of more small USB-drive-friendly apps.

Jed’s Other Poem (Beautiful Ground) is an unsolicited video for the song of the same name by the band Grandaddy. It is programmed in Applesoft II on a 1979 Apple ][+ with 48k RAM.

I’m reminding myself to look more at these Power Strip Liberators.

Lastminute Auction scrapes Ebay and shows a list of all the auctions that are going for less than a dollar and ending within the next hour.

Last Thursday, Heather and I went to the Fox Theatre to see “The Phantom of the Opera”. I’d never been to the Fox, and was very impressed. The theater is gorgeously designed with a Arabian theme, and inside the theater itself, the seating and stage is under a sky-blue ceiling that gives the impression of being in a Arabian mosque near sunset — complete with twinkling stars.

“Phantom” was also quite good; I’m not a big fan of musicals, but the show was very engaging, and the stagecraft was excellent. I highly recommend seeing it; it’s definitely an experience worth having.

DeCorp makes neat flat wiring for ethernet, video, and audio that you can adhere to a wall, spackle and then paint over.

I need it!

Dodgeit gives you a free, disposable email address that is syndicated with RSS. This is great for those sites that require a valid email address before they let you download their stuff, so they can spam you.