Nils cold. Nils fix furnace. Arrr!

I feel like Bob the Builder today. Can we fix it? Yes we can. I woke up this morning and the house was cold. I figured the thermostat was just turned down but it was set to 73 and the house was at 63. Not good. I went down and checked the furnace and it was blowing air and everything but there was no fire. Not good. I flipped the power off and on but that did nothing. Not good. I wasn’t about to break down and call a repair guy, though. I’m too cheap to do that. What about …

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We got a Wii!

Thanks to my oh so generous Mom and Dad, we now have a Wii. I’ve played the Wii before but not much so we’re excited to get into it. I’ve been trying to find Rock Band for the Wii for a couple of weeks now, in anticipation of the arrival of the Wii but haven’t been able to respond to a KSL ad quite fast enough to get the good deals just yet. But I will. My parents actually bought us both the Wii (my graduation present) and the Wii Fit (Katrina’s birthday present). Ironically, the Wii Fit arrived about …

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Frozen Taskbar and Explorer in Windows 7 = Virus!

I spend half my time on PCs and half on Macs. I quite like my PC. It performs much better than my equally equipped Mac and costs a heck of a lot less. I like my Macs, too, but have yet to purchase one myself. Today, however, Macs go up a point or two in my book – or better yet – PCs go down a point or two. Here’s why. Today I came down to my office to work on my PC and I discovered that whenever I hovered over the taskbar, I got the annoying little spinning wheel …

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Mozilla Prism: Turn Any Website into an App

I could swear I already blogged about this but I must be going crazy. Anyway, Prism allows you to run any website as a standalone app. As I have already mentioned, I love GrooveShark (a Pandora-like internet radio, but better). With Prism, I can run Grooveshark in its own window and launch it right from my Start Menu, Desktop or Quick Launch Bar. Slick. So check it out. Prism.

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