Movies – TV – Games – NYC – Me

The latest Cygwin update seems to have broken how I launch mrxvt... my shortcut no longer worked. I tried countless permutations and nothing helped. After a lot of searching, I found that back on February 21, 2007 Angelo Graziosi posted a solution to the Cygwin mailing list that works for me (Hooray Google! Hooray Angelo!). [...]

Lately I've been playing a lot with jqGrid, a very nice Grid / Table plugin for jQuery / jQuery UI. It does some really amazing things including allowing you to have a scrollbar that replaces the standard "next page" / "previous page" that you see in most web applications. I have tables that are sortable on [...]

My DOS and Unix roots often show - I like using the command line. On all of my Windows-based systems I have Cygwin installed to provide many of the luxuries of Unix / Linux right from my windows system but the window that contains the Windows command line interface (cmd.exe) and Cygwin's bash leave something to [...]

I saw the previews for Zombieland a few weeks ago. It showed some promise, but too many movies show promise and fail to deliver. I am happy to say that Zombieland delivers and in spades. I went to see it at the local gigaplex... they were offering it on normal screens and on "Giant Screen" which [...]

My dad, the best man I know, died this last week. He battled cancer for a couple years and finally it got the best of him, although he put up a good fight.

I am thankful for good doctors. Even though he endured surgery, chemo-therapy, and radiation treatments I am thankful that at the end he was only [...]

I love the foaming hand soap. I don't recall where I used it first but over the last couple years it has become very popular - we use it exclusively at home (we evening use foaming dish soap when we do dishes in the sink) and we find it in more and more resturants, etc. I [...]

I am an audiobook lover. I've come up with some steps and software that will aid you on your quest if you're like me and want to enjoy your audiobooks on your iPhone or iPod (most steps apply to listening on any device).

Before I get into the gorey details below, I will mention that Audible.com can [...]

I attended my cousin's wedding which was great! It was a wonderful ceremony, a couple great partys, lots of good food and it was really great to see family that I don't see nearly enough of. I wouldn't trade my family for any other I have ever met... and my great family just keeps getting bigger [...]

I had Verizon FIOS a few years ago when we lived on Roosevelt Island and I loved it. It is considerably faster than DSL or Cablemodem. When I learned our new apartment could get FIOS (for Internet / TV / Phone) I decided (well in advance of moving) to get it. There was a slight mishap [...]

Yesterday was the first I heard about the new movie Moon. It was described as sci-fi, a bit like 2001, which sounded interesting. It was directed and the story written by Duncan Jones, the son of David Bowie. I looked it up and discovered that it was out in limited release and was showing in New [...]