Here’s quick instructions on how to send email via telnet — very useful for debugging weird SMTP issues.

Woot.

I’m in Key West.

And you’re not.

(Of course, wherever you are, you’re probably with my baggage.)

ITLU allows you to scan a Windows system for mp3s and add them to your iTunes library, regardless of the source. Most importantly, it allows you to update your existing library, which iTunes doesn’t allow. You’ll need this app and a pile of mp3s, whether they’re on your computer’s hard drive or on an external drive [even on an external system]. You can have ITLU scan your whole system for mp3s and add them to iTunes, or point it at a specific place.

For those of you still suffering behind WebSense, you might be able to use Google to proxy around your firewall.

For Christmas, I got Sam a hard drive for his XBox, and shipped it via Amazon.

Mom got the package today, along with the frozen steaks I’d ordered for my stepdad. She opened the box and saw something that said ‘Western Digital Caviar’, so she put it in the fridge to keep it cool.

Here’s a del.icio.us plugin for Firefox that integrates del.icio.us bookmarking and tagging with Firefox’s contextual [or right-click] menu.

Ted made a sweet “Expos????-like” Firefox plugin that displays a tab’s contents as a miniaturized window.

Tom’s Hardware has a new guide showing how to install Windows XP on a USB thumbdrive.

For all you kids who’re trying to add me to your LinkedIn accounts: piss off.

It’s really, really stupid to pay someone to “network” you with people you already know.

Here’s a crushing blow to LinkedIn’s @1998 business model: send some email. Yeah, that’s right, send email to your old colleagues.

Novel concept.

Now quit spamming me, monkeys.

One of the few useful features WinXP has that OSX doesn’t have is “Hibernate”. WinXP is able, upon power loss, to save the contents of a sleeping PC’s RAM to disk, so that the system state and user data isn’t lost.

OSX’s sleep feature drains power, albeit slowly. On my work iBook, it can sleep for just about 3 days with no power, before it goes dead.

The new Powerbooks have a feature that is called ‘Safe Sleep’, which is pretty much ‘Hibernate’. Since the feature is software-based, it’s fairly easy to implement on non-Powerbook Macs.