Author Archives for Angela

Last.fm tool: How eclectic is your musical style?


Take your top 20 artists. For each of these artists, collect the top 5 similar artists. The resulting number of unique artists is your eclectic score. If the score is small (extreme = 5) your musical preferences are very limited, and if it is large (larger than 80, extreme = 100), then you have an [...]

Great Firefox Trick


Firefox is great, but everybody knows it has an Achilles heel: massive memory sucking. I have had sessions that have eventually brought my computer down to a crawl, often after I have minimized what I was doing and then come back to it later (as you might imagine, I get interrupted around here a lot). [...]

I Am THIS Close to Putting Down My Pimp Hand!


Playground Tales with Brooke Shields
How hilarious it would be to start talking like this next time we’re at the playground.

Not News to Me


An interesting article my mother just forwarded me on family sleep problems.
By the way, I will try to investigate what is causing Movable Type to be so hypervigilant about moderating comments soon. It’s been automatically flagging everything, good and bad, so that’s why you haven’t seen your comments show up right away. It’s MT’s analness, [...]

Charge That Book on My Visa!


The other day my sister and I were comparing notes on washing machines, and she casually asked how much debt we were in. Specifically, credit card debt. I had a number in my head, but I sauntered over to Bruce’s desk to have a look at the last statements to double-check. The number astounded me. [...]

Trolling for Joost Invites


Anybody else heard of Joost? The Colbert Report right on my screen next to my Dreamweaver work? Hell yeah! If anybody has any invites so spare, I’d be very grateful. Here’s what it’s about.

Update: Thanks Jon!