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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for March 3 2016 - Rating the Unrateable
In this episode, I play a song from John Howie Jr and the Rosewood Bluff; I talk about the various sorts of things I mess up; how do people keep up with the various digital goods they have purchased? I wonder if I am clinically manic depressive; I talk about an ugly Facebook fight; why don't I rate...
read articleGoogle Chrome on OS X Now Has Greasemonkey Built-in!
One of the big bummers for me of using Google Chrome on OS X was the lack of Greasemonkey script support. There were some various hackish ways to make it work for Windows versions but I couldn't find a reasonable way on OS X. Tonight I realized part of why that is. The support is there, but there...
read articleThe Kindle is NOT a Closed System
I want to address one of the biggest bits of spurious push back I see on the Amazon Kindle. I see people over and over saying they don't want one because it is a "closed system." This is not the truth and I'll get to that after a little prelude. I've had mine for about seven months now...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for January 4, 2009 - "The Start of Something Good"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for January 4, 2009. I play a song from the Jody Grind; I talk about the new year, about being too fat and deciding where to spend my time; I talk about how I am getting back to collecting comic books; I talk a little about Saul Griffith and...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for November 27, 2008 - "Thankful For You"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for November 27, 2008. I play a song from Camper Van Beethoven; I discuss what I'm thankful for; I talk about the fragile first few minutes of a podcast and how you can lose me in them; I talk about trying and failing to get organized with GTD and...
read articleFirst Pass of Comics Done
I've entered everything I could on my printout into ComicBookDB. The next pass involves adding issues and/or titles to the database that don't already exist in it. I've been pulling out copies of those issue and also ones that exist but need a scanned cover. I've uploaded around 10 covers so far....
read articleCataloging Comic Books
Every so often for the past few years, I've been looking for a good solution for computerizing my comic book collection. As I tentatively get back into collecting them, I've got a good solid mess of things that were once cataloged, added since, and just loose in unorganized boxes and piles. I wanted...
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