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Bloglet: About RSS Bloglet’s RSS support is a radical departure from the way subscribers sign up for Bloglet. Before, a site owner had to sign up for Bloglet before anyone could subscribe to the site. Now, subscribers can subscribe to any site with an RSS feed, even if it isn’t a member of Bloglet. All…

BlogAmp BlogAmp is a free Winamp plugin that allows the user to keep in his personal web page a list with the last songs played in his Winamp. This list is update by FTP in real time. Thanks John Ludwig for another cool tool!

DVDplusRW.org – The ultimate unofficial DVD RW resource siteHere are some notes on why you can’t see DVD+RW on certain players… Any DVD player should be able to play back a DVD+RW disc, after identifying it. However, some DVD players falsly assume that, after identifying a disc as not being a dual layered DVD-ROM (which…

BlogSkins.com Just what I need dynamic templates…Yoohoo! So you’ve got a blog of your own. Congratulations. And you’re oh so proud of your witty and insightful posts. But you’ve got one problem — you suck at design. In fact, you suck so much that people skip right over your site because the bad color scheme…

Remove the Spyware, Banner Ads and Bitrate limit from Kazaa How To Remove the Banner Adds & Spyware from Kazaa What is Spyware ? What You Will Need Kazaa Ad-Aware cd_clint.dll Install Kazaa. Install Ad-Aware then use it to scan your computer for spyware. Remove all the spyware found including the spyware that Kazaa put…

US Flag Wallpaper Another great American flag

DefenseLINK – Official Web Site of the U.S. Department of Defense. Straight from the horses moth if you will. This is the official public relations site of the DoD. Some cool photos and other reports here.

tools Bloggar – a cool little program that sits in your system tray so you don’t have to go all the way to the taco stand to post. It does a whole lot more and is also available in French, Portugese, and Spanish for all you foreign guacamoles. Check out the screen shot. I’m still…

broadband ? Forums ? P2P Chat ? Kazaa registry hack question…… >In HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Kazaa there is only one option you can change … LimitBitrate. Setting this to 1 will limit the bitrate to 128 kbps, like Kazaa. Setting to 0 will set the bitrate back to normal. (320 kbps limit).

k-lite. This is kazaa without spyware. A good place to look or else you can remove it with the instructions. Here are some helpful hints from Kazaa Lite hings After you run the program, wait a little while for it to connect and then: 1. press alt V, then arrow down to search and hit…

US Flags. Another set of great flag clipart and photos. I use the first one now on my home machine

Video Editing Software for Apple and PCs. OK, so I’ve gotten a digital video camera, the Canon handheld and now a great Shuttle SS-51G computer with builtin in firewire ports. Now all that is left is the digital editing software. This is a top hit in google.com for finding reviews about that kind of stuff.

Content Advisor. I use this rating system stuff to turn things off for the kids. Works OK except that most sites aren’t rated.

Cnet Video Editing Reviews and PC Magazine Video Editing Review This is the last link in the chain for me. I’ve gotten the Canon Camcorder called the Optura MC-1 which is a great handheld. Also now have a monopod for it to keep it steady and just got the Shuttle SS-51G to do the video…

Chess Software One of my many jobs next year is to run the back end of the UCDS Chess tournament. Here are some notes on programs to do that. We currently use a very ancient DOS program to do it. Here are some more modern versions. I’ve tried the first and the last and they…

The Sonic Memorial ProjectShortly after September 11, NPR’s Lost & Found Sound brought together independent radio producers, new media producers, artists, historians, and listeners from across the country to collect and preserve ‘sound memories’ of the World Trade Center, its neighborhood, and the events of 9/11. We set up the Sonic Memorial Phone Line at…

America Attacked 9 1 1A powerful site with pictures of 9/11 so we never forget. Wow.

Creating a bootable Windows XP CD with Nero Burning ROM. OK, here are the Nero specific instructions for creating a bootable Windows XP CD. Haven’t quite gotten it to work yet, but I need to go to sleep now 🙂

One year later, a nation pauses Wow, what a beautiful poem. Recited at the New York 9/11 Memorial… ?I give you this one thought to keep, ?I am with you still, I do not sleep. ?I am a thousand winds that blow. ?I am the diamond glint on the snow. ?I am as sunlight on…

September 11th Weblog and Rich’s Thoughts September 11th will always be a day where something changed, but nothing did. In Seattle, it was a brilliantly sunny and beautiful day (as today was) yet the world felt different. I went on a 50 mile bike ride after watching the second tower go down, I saw America,…

Federation of American Scientists – America’s War on Terrorism – Strategy and Weaponry. A technical guide (a la Tom Clancy) to all the hardware the folks report about in the papers.

Federation of American Scientists. The final site I use all the time that covers military issues, arms control, etc.

GlobalSecurity.org. MOre interesting sites for those interested in the news. This one has lots of footage and satellite photos of places like the Tuwaitha Nuclear Center in Iraq. And information on Special Weapons, etc.

The Intelligence Network? 😕 i?n?t?e?l?l?i?g?e?n?c?e??: ?t?o?d?a?y?’?s??n?e?w?s?. Pretty cool site for watching the latest news. With the anniversary of September 11th coming, I can’t help but watch and scan this site as well as CNN and MSNBC and particularly the broadband Broadband MSNBC

Zagat and Citysearch. I was in the market for great Thai food. Interesting to see that citysearch is by far ahead in google. But I prefer Zagat’s myself.