Rick's World

I wrote previously about how other sites were linking directly to the images on my site from their pages without my permission. Yeah, I suppose I could just delete the images, but I figured I'd get a little free advertising out of it. I just updated al… more »

I mentioned briefly in my previous blog that I need to do something to mark my images with my website URL, so that when people link directly to my images, it shows my web site on the image. Credit were credit is due. The way you do this is by putting a… more »

Hmm, I was just looking through my web site logs and I noticed that the images from my Spiderman 3 review are being directly linked to in a bunch of different sites without any credit to my site. I think people are finding these images through Google Im… more »

Yes, I went and saw the movie with the dancing, animated penguins... This past weekend I saw the movie Happy Feet. For the most part, I gotta say I liked it. The animation was fantastic. It has some of the best computer animated graphics that I've… more »

The more I think about this, the more this infuriates me. It was recently announced that Microsoft will be paying Universal Music a flat fee for every Zune music player sold. There seems to be some disagreement on how much they are paying, but the g… more »

On Thanksgiving Day I looked over the Black Friday ads. There was nothing much worth talking about in the ads. A few cheapo DVDs and that's about it. I'm not crazy enough to get up early to fight the crowds for a couple DVDs. So on Black Friday,… more »

I spent Thanksgiving this year at my parents house, as usual. It was a nice day and a good meal. Thankfully, the oven worked perfectly this year. Last year it broke down in the middle of cooking the turkey. This time the turkey came out perfectly. O… more »

Whew! That was close! A couple weekends ago, I took my older cat, Tiger, in to the vet for his yearly checkup and shots. He behaved himself well at the vet and got his shots no problem. Last year he tried to jump off the table with a needle still… more »

Today, I picked up an Airport Extreme card for my PowerMac. Why? No particular reason. I bought it as a toy. The Airport Extreme card is a small card that you install internally into the Powermac that gives it wireless network capabilities. This is… more »

I've been interested in programming on the Mac for a while - nearly since the day I bought my first Mac last year. Well after a year of off-again, on-again reading up on it, I've finally started working on my first small Mac application. As a programme… more »

One of my coworkers told me about an interesting Visual Studio plugin that you could buy. It was called Visual Assist X. I love this plugin, but at $149, it is expensive. I mentioned this to my friend Dave, and he suggested another product called Code… more »

Yesterday, I went to Target to check out the Zune. I got a chance to play with it for a little while. Here's my thoughts. First of all, I have to say, I was impressed with the user interface of the Zune. The screen was very colorful. It has some… more »

Ok, this is just too easy. I just discovered that Microsoft's newly released PowerShell application has a glaring bug in the *release* version. The 'remove-item' command, that is used to delete files has a '-recurse' parameter that is supposed to ma… more »

Well, this is only the first day of my Microsoft Screwup blogs and I'm already up to #2. Not a good sign. Microsoft just released version 1.0 of PowerShell. PowerShell is a fantastic replacement for the Windows command line shell that has a lot of… more »

Today's Microsoft Screwup: The Zune is incompatible with their new Windows Vista operating system! BWA HA HA HA! more »

This morning, on The Today Show, they did a 'story' (and I use that term very lightly) about the new Zune MP3 player from Microsoft, that is being released today. This commercial was clearly and unfairly slanted towards the Zune. Every time they sho… more »

I just got back from seeing this movie. I have never been more insulted by a movie in my entire life. I won't summarize this movie. You can read the link attached to this blog for that. Suffice it to say that this movie was the stupidest, most ins… more »

Ok, this is stupid. I don't often rip on Apple, but this was a boneheaded move, and credit where credit is due. I just downloaded iTunes 7.0.2 and installed it. I went into the iTunes Store (which I actually *use* now) and discovered that it though… more »

It's time for my next great travel adventure. This time it's going to be to Rome, Italy. Earlier this year, I spent a week in Paris, France. That was my first trip out of the country. It was a tiring trip, mentally and physically but it was worth it.… more »