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• Hey Ma, Get Off the Dang Roof!

  April 22nd, 2005 at 2:09pm | 2 Comments

  Audio Clip:   If you are still using MapQuest or Yahoo! Maps for your mapping needs, you are living in the past. Google’s relatively new “Satelite” feature at maps.google.com is spectacular. I was looking at the area where I am going to be living in Surrey, BC but the road isn’t even shown on Google’s map. ... read more »

• Flash Audio Player Sample

  April 14th, 2005 at 5:18pm | 1 Comment

  I couldn’t resist trying out the Flash Audio Player that I found. So here’s a sample of one of the songs I’ve been listening to a lot lately: Artist: Jimmy Eat World Album: Futures Song: Polaris ___ read more »

• Currently Listening To and a Free Flash Audio Player

  April 14th, 2005 at 4:22pm | 1 Comment

  I’ve added a “Currently Listening To” block in my sidebar displaying the current song that I’m playing in Winamp. I set this up very easily using the Song Displayer plugin. I’ve also found a great Flash Audio Player that enables anyone with a Flash plugin to play music directly from a web page. I was ... read more »

• Putting a Stop to Comment SPAM

  April 13th, 2005 at 10:39pm | 1 Comment

  I’ve installed a new WordPress plugin called Auth Image today to put a stop to comment SPAM and any need to moderate comments. Auth Image produces a small image containing a word that is poorly written and somewhat difficult to read. The commenter must read the word and type it into the adjascent box for ... read more »

• HOWTO Enable Extra Mouse Buttons in Suse 9.2

  April 9th, 2005 at 2:47pm | No Comments

  I have a MS Trackball Explorer Mouse and only the two primary buttons (left and right) and the scroll wheel work by default in Suse 9.2. The mouse has seven buttons in total: left, right, wheel-up, wheel-down, wheel-click, back, and forward. I could only find detailed extra mouse button HOWTOs for other flavours of Linux ... read more »

• Luc Sirois Caught in the Act

  April 5th, 2005 at 9:10pm | 1 Comment

  Today, I caught Luc…blogging? That’s right! My buddy/roomate Luc just invested in some nice, shiny, new web space with us and setup a fancy new WordPress powered blog. He’s already posted 3 articles within twelve hours of setting it up…perhaps another Blogaddict is emerging? Check it out: http://www.lucsirois.com. read more »