ihavebeenfloated

This is one of those things I write about just because Google didn’t help me AT ALL when I was trying to figure out which offline encyclopedia software was better, Encarta or the Encyclopedia Britannica. If you stumble across this blog post thanks to Google, leave a comment letting me know I helped you decide, [...]

I beta test GameTap. A while back someone posted on the beta forum about a certain dialog box being confusing. I agreed, and instantly had an idea for a way that the dialog box could be made better. I drew it out in Photoshop, posted it to the forum, and in pretty much the very [...]

I hate to take a cue from Dano, but oh well.

1. Go to Career Cruising: http://www.careercruising.com
2. Put in Username: nycareers and Password: landmark.
3. Take their “Career Matchmaker” questions.
4. Post the results
5. Put the careers you have seriously considered in italics, and the careers in which you have worked/do work in bold.

I have no desire to [...]

Last night in my sleepy trance I downloaded a clock program, turned out it was a newer version of one I already had with a new name, but by default it came with an hourly chime with one of the annoying Windows sounds assigned to it, so on the hunt for a ‘distant watch beep’—because [...]

The interesting thing about the internet, and I don’t know if people realize this or not, is that people tend to use the same username across a variety of websites. If you meet someone on a fairly anonymous website, you can easily plug in their username into Google and mine for all sorts of information. [...]

I’m going to update this as I find shit out.

1.) My god, the new interface is slick. This is where the majority of improvements come from.

a.) The split screen is awesome. I hate to say it but seeing the covers of albums gradually slide and zoom in across the screen and fade into other album [...]

Or something. Who2tell is something I pulled out of my ass right now. This idea, though, has been kicking around for a while, and since I am no programmer, this will never get done by me.

I discovered PingMe a few weeks ago, and though I have relatively little use for a “to do” service, PingMe [...]