Blacktree’s Quicksilver is very neato. There isn’t a lot of documentation on the website [that I could find], particularly regarding what Quicksilver does.

In a nutshell, Quicksilver is a command-key-activated launcher. Hit cmd-space, type ‘CALC’, hit enter, and it will launch Calculator.app.

What makes Quicksilver truly great is its ability to catalog all of your applications and their preferences, your favorites, your contacts, and so on. This means that Quicksilver isn’t restricted to launching your apps — type in ‘UNXM’ and it will open your favorite website. If you type the first few characters of one of your contact’s names, you can quickly pull up the Address Book page for that contact.

Spiderman 2 rocks. Go see it.

Oh wait, you’ll all have to wait for 24 more hours! Sorry!

I picked up a EZFlash Advance kit from MyBayside.com, for about $100. I’ll only be using it to pursue my career in Gameboy game development, of course.

My first USB cable was broken on arrival, but the guy[s] at MyBayside.com were very responsive and got me a replacement cable within a week.

The kit includes a USB-to-GBA cable and a 256Mbit flash card, which will store about 4 modern-sized GBA roms. This is a handy way to keep your precious GBA games safe: connect the GBA to your computer via the cable, launch the included client software, and back up your GBA game to a file on your computer.

Somewhere in the twisted mental pathways that make up the tiny brain of my little dog, Tak, the phrase “It’s a trap!” — said in an Admiral Ackbar voice — means “there is a squirrel outside. Go find and kill it now!”

Really.

“It’s a trap!”

And the dog bolts out of the room, off the porch, and over to the nearest tree, hell-bent for some squealy squirrel death.

Every so often I’m reminded that I’m living in the future.

And the future is stupid.

Instead of purchasing Sacred, just bash your computer with a hammer a few times. You’ll get all the wonderful gameplay, including constant BSODs and random graphics problems, and you’ll save a boatload of cash. I’ve had this digitized turd for no more than an hour and it’s crashed four times.

Honestly, I’m really sick of being an unpaid beta-tester for shyster game companies.

Today I broke two of my own rules: never buy a game unless you’ve played the demo, or unless the game comes from a company known to make pretty decent products [like Blizzard, id, or the UT folks], and never buy anything from CompUSA. Luckily a quick pre-emptive phone call to the manager at CompUSA will keep me from raining hellfire down upon them when they tried to charge me their 2000% “restock fee” or whatever they’re calling it these days.

I’ve been using a Fedora workstation in conjuction with my iBook at work, and I’ve gotten used to the handy ‘lock screen’ button on the Gnome toolbar.

I wanted the same type of ‘lock screen’ button for OSX, but didn’t know of any quick and easy way to enable it. I did some research, and came up with this nice [but oddly hidden] method:

Keychain Access is used to store passwords to web sites, network servers, and lockable volumes. However, it also provides a quick way of securing your computer.

Because Laura is special, she scored some sneak preview passes to Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban.

Not really spoilers, but just in case.

Due to a bad dining decision, I went to lunch at Burger King last week. As I moved through the line, I noticed a slightly overweight Hispanic girl leaning against the counter, waiting for her food. She was wearing low-cut hip-hugger jeans.

Here’s my Fashion Hint for the month:

If you are a girl, and you have a .. hair problem.. don’t wear low-cut jeans. Most importantly, if you are a girl and you have thick glossy ass-hair, ass-hair that has crawled out of your ass and up your spine to reach your mid-back in some unholy ass-hair creeper-vine fashion, ass-hair that would be more fitting on a swarthy Italian sailor’s chest [or head], please, please, for the love of all that is holy, please do not wear low-cut jeans when you have an ass-pelt!

Week before last, the AC went out.

For those of you not living in Atlanta: this is a crisis of Biblical proportions. Even in April.

I called around, on a Sunday, and A Guy to come out and look at it. He mumbled something about leaks, and about the age of the AC unit, filled it with coolant, charged me $180 and left.

Three days later, the AC was again blowing tepid air.