Category: technology

Ken Go put together an excellent Craigslist Greasemonkey script for Mozilla Firefox that allows you to search Craigslist for items such as apartments far more easily than you otherwise would. Let’s face it, Craigslist is free and fast but looking at 100s of listings for locations on Google maps, etc pretty much sucks. You have… Continue reading Easier Apartment Hunting on Craigslist With Ken's Craigslist Greasemonkey Script

I hope to blog a bunch about my new Blackberry Curve (8300) phone, but before I do that I want to explain the process for moving your cell phone number from Verizon to AT&T. I ordered my phone off Amazon, and there weren’t great instructions on how to handle this, so here goes: Download Rock… Continue reading How to Switch Your Cell Phone Number From Verizon Wireless to AT&T Cingular

A new Joanna Newsom EP is coming out soon titled Joanna Newsom And The YS Street Band. But hold on a minute, what is an EP? I’ve seen them issued but didn’t really know what they’re about. Here’s some background: EP stands for “Extended Play,” and there’s a ton of info on wikipedia’s EP page.… Continue reading New EP: Joanna Newsom And The YS Street Band, Features New Song "Colleen"

I listen to a lot of music both at work and home using Winamp. Back in the hay’ I used Audioscrobbler to keep track of my listening habits. Audioscrobbler became Last.fm, which is a wee bit bloated for me, but still does a good job of keeping track of my listening habits no matter which… Continue reading Added Recently Listened Tracks Via Last.fm Plugin For WordPress

I was trying to drum out a thumbnail image spec. for Podcastinople this afternoon and of course turned to the Web 2.0 standard for creating them, Flickr. The idea behind a thumbnail is that I want to create a 75×75 version of an image while maintaining the aspect ratio. Since most photos and images uploaded… Continue reading Cropping and Resizing to Maintain Aspect Ratio in Thumbnails on Flickr