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Cleaning House, Fixing Bugs...

Did some cleaning up of this site.

First off, downloads should all work now. Sorry they’ve been variously broken for so long. I finally tracked down the problem. (Turns out it was obvious, but I was dumb. So it goes.)

I also deleted about 500 comments, all of which were spam-ish. Many, I’m sure, were not. So I’m sorry if your comment got deleted. There’s also still some comment spam. Dang.

Oh. New site look. Using the Wabi Drupal theme. I like it. I keep the orange, but it’s a lot less ugly.

Look for more updates to the site in the future. And, as always, thanks for reading. Both of you. You know who you are.

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Griping about OS X Lion? Here's two nifty tools that replace a variety of poorly supported third party tools: Command-line and Automator access to video and audio conversion. Super easy to use, and very flexible and supports any format that Quicktime can encode/decode. (So Perian is a must-install if you want to handle DivX/3viX, etc.)

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Fix Google Reader's horrible new interface with this user script! Now it fits nicely on my MacBook's small screen. >
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What makes this ad awesome is not the true-to-life irony, because the idea is hardly innovative, but rather the excellent execution. Reminds me a bit of that excellent Nutri-Grain spec commercial. Quick delivery, good actors, hit all the high notes. Love it. >