FlyakiteOSX is a wonderful Windows app that makes your Windows desktop look like OS X. I like it a lot, much prettier than the Fisher-Pricetm appearance of Windows XP or even the Windows “Aero Glass” theme coming out with Vista.
Even if you don’t have Windows XP, visit the FlyakiteOSX site just to see the brilliant interface that mimicks the OS X desktop in your browser.
Photo Desktop is a Mac application that allows you to put up “Polaroids” of images from your iPhoto library scattered on your desktop.
Upgraded this blog to Wordpress 2.0 this morning. I think most of the changes are on the administrative side, because I couldn’t see any differences from the public side of things.
Within this post found on Marginal Revolution, Tyler Cowen offers up some interesting advice.
In general I favor approaches which shake us up, and force us to overcome our preconceptions and status quo biases. If you are at a very good restaurant, you often do best by ordering the course you think you are least likely to enjoy. I do not, however, recommend going to the restaurant you think you are least likely to enjoy. The trick is to keep part of your filter steady and strong, while, at the same time, inverting some portions of your expectations. I’ve never gardened, or wanted to garden, but the best book on gardening in Borders still might be worth my while. Or pick a genre of music you dislike — the more rabidly the better — and go buy what is supposed to be the best CD from that genre.
I love music, but there are truly more genres that I cannot stand than ones I love. Hong suggested that I wouldn’t be able to tolerate even the best CantoPop album. Rap/Hip-Hop is another genre I have a hard time I’d imagine I’d enjoy. But maybe I haven’t truly tried to listen to the best of what those genres have to offer.
So, I’ll leave the question up to my readers: for a given genre, what do you think is the “best” album in that genre?
I’ll leave you with a couple of suggestions from my favorite genres.
Remember what I said about it being really cold this year? I take it back now. Things have been unseasonably warm here ever since Christmas. The temps have always been above normal, sometimes as much as 25 degrees higher. Just an occasional snow flurry to deal with, but mostly just rain. It’s as if we really live 1000 miles south of where we do.
Interesting story about the CEO of the company that makes Snapper lawnmowers, and why he decided not to sell through Wal-Mart.
I don’t quite know the reason why, but Maggie has always had an affinity for bikes. Anytime she sees a bike, whether it’s in a book, on TV, or on the street, she points and says “Biiii”.
So last week we headed over to Target with the idea of getting her a “bike” of her own. Before we could even get to the toy department, she saw the display of regular bikes in the sporting goods section. She cried, “BIII!! BIIII!!!” and was visibly agitated that we weren’t taking her to the bikes right away.
In the toy department, we let her try several tricycles, which she did enjoy, but she still kept wandering over to the sporting goods to touch the big bikes. We finally settled on a four-wheeled “bike” that can be used within the house.
She loves to sit on her bike and have her daddy push her around. She doesn’t yet know how to move it on her own by using her legs, but I’m sure she’ll get it someday.
I bet she’s really going to enjoy it this spring when I get a child-carrier for my bike and ride around with her on the back. What a blast that will be for both of us!
