I went and saw V for Vandetta on Saturday. It reminded me a lot of 1984, which is still probably the most engrossing and grimm book I have ever read. Overall, the story was great, the cinematography was amazing, and the acting was adequate.
Sticking with the Alan Moore theme (the original creator of V), I finished reading The Watchme today. The Watchmen is the first graphic novel/comic book series that I have ever read. It was fairly entertaining, though I don’t picture myself reading much in the genre.
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Fiddler: Some people at work pointed me to a HTTP debugger named Fiddler. It will watch all HTTP traffic on your computer and it will allow you to more or less pause the traffic and modify it to your hearts desire. Sorry, Windows only.
Colibri: There is an app for Mac OS X called Quicksilver, which I absolutely can’t live without. Basically it is an application launcher which is invoked with a configurable keystroke. By default is it CTRL + Space, but on Windows, when running Visual Studio, CTRL + Space is mapped to Intellisence. Colibri is not a fully functional as Quicksilver is, and it is still in development, but for common tasks, such as running commands or launching applications, or browsing folders, it works very well. Details on how it determines it’s set of commands are sketchy, but I found out that it will scan your Start Menu items for applications to launch. So, I created a new folder called Colibri Actions there and placed shortcuts to the most commonly used applications or locations which I visit. Now, if I need to call up Visual Source Safe, I no longer have to navigate my mouse to the Start Menu to find it, I simply press CTRL + SHIFT + SPACE and then start typing the word Visual. Colibri will autocomplete the command for you and a simple press of the ENTER key launches the app. To make things simpler for myself, I renamed the shortcut to VSS so that CTRL + SHIFT + SPACE + VS + SPACE opens Visual Source Safe.
Ad-Blocking the Gnome Way: Use a proxy setting in Gnome to help rid yourself of annoying advertisements.
Upcomming outage
I have been contemplating switching web hosts to 1and1.com. They have Python support, which I am looking for so that I can run an instance of Planet to gather my web news and display them in a single page index.
