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Desktop USB Fondue Pot

ThinkGeek :: Fundue – desktop USB Fondue Set — Just what you need to ease the tedious work day. Hot Cheese!

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GMail (Google’s Web EMail)

I’ve been testing out GMail for a month or so. Moved most of my personal e-mail to it.

So far it’s great. Once they have the ability to access the e-mail from IMAP or POP and to read other IMAP or POP accounts it will be perfect. I will likely then move all my personal e-mail to it.

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Even Adobe prefers Windows

A study posted at Adobe’s website describes how traditionally Mac-centric tasks (rendering using After Effects, Illustrator & Photoshop) are all faster on a PC. These kinds of studies are a dime a dozen; what’s interesting isn’t which platform is faster, but that Adobe would host a page proclaiming the PC is the “preferred” platform for such tasks. Given the notoriously fickle folks at Quark, I would have pegged Adobe as the biggest Mac boosters in the third party software market. Are times changing?
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MoveableType Image Directory Show

Hey – look at me — I created a MoveableType plug-in that displays a directory of images in an entry. See the images below? Click MORE to see how I did it and get the source.
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I’m just not too motivated…

This explains a lot.

according to a japanese study, as reported by lisa bowman, prolonged daily computer use can make you sore and sap your strength, energy and motivation. sounds about right.

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Copy a record in MySQL

An easy single command to copy a record from one table to another in MySQL:

   insert into destinationdb.destinationtable
     select * from sourcedatabase.sourcetable
     where code = ’123′;

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