Post from the command line! http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/

An interesting article on the relative investment and merits of renting vs. buying a home.

http://www.mint.com/blog/goals/rent-vs-buy/

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/display_myths_shattered

I finally sucked it up and fixed my desktop computer after suffering almost half a year of screwed up Windows XP (10 minute boot-up time, wouldn't hibernate anymore, random network drop outs, printer only worked half of the time, etc etc).

The results are quite impressive: Replaced the buzzing stock Intel CPU fan with an unnecessarily monsterous OCZ Vendetta cooler. I got Windows 7 up and running in under a day. Moved over everything important to a new 1 TB hard drive. I now have 3 TB of storage, all of my photos are now managed /w Picasa, and all of my music is (unfortunately) re-imported into iTunes. Most importantly for the first time in almost 3 years all of my data is finally backed up to a secondary hard drive *whew* talk about flirting with disaster!

As a result of the Picasa upgrade, I took down all the pics from the photos section of the website until I can find a better set of newer pics to put up there.

The 'Blog' or 'News' section of the site has been moved from http://paradime.net/news to http://blog.paradime.net, because Google no longer supports FTP uploading of blogs. FYI.

http://snailmailr.com/

Something that reminds me of my friend Dale's favorite Google jokes -- Google Classic. This web site is, however, not a joke. It actually allows you to compose a full letter, address the envelope, and have it stamped and mailed to the destination of your choice, all for only $1. Sure it costs more than postage, but when you consider the effort involved in obtaining an envelope, a pen, and a piece of stationary (not to mention the fact that I have to actually type the letter in Word first because I can't survive without spell check), it seems like a pretty sweet deal.

I've always had a thought that, in our world of instant and global communication, we are missing out on something special about sending a handwritten letters to people. Letters require time and effort, and because the communication is not instantaneous I feel like the format lends itself to a more refined type of writing (someone must spend more time and consideration about making a clear point when there is no means for instantaneous feedback or clarification). I've always been happily surprised to recieve a real letter or card from a friend, especially when most of the communication we get consists of a 'poke' or 'like' on Facebook. This site may be the perfect bridge between these two worlds -- fast and easy composition but still retaining some of that real-world feel of an actual envelope and piece of paper.

http://ollydbg.de/Paperbak/