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Widgets and Custom Visitor Labels

October 7, 2007

Get your own Zune for $99

October 6, 2007

Just a note that woot has factory refurbished 30GB black Zunes for $99 with $5 shipping still in stock. Seeing as they’re getting the firmware upgrade for wifi syncing, additional codec support and other goodies next month, this is the time to buy. Zune holds 3 of the top 5 spots on Amazon’s top [...]

I just got a free 2nd-gen Zune

October 3, 2007

As did the other 1.2 million early adopters of the Zune.
First-Gen Zune Getting All The New Features: This is How You Treat Your Customers
Hands On with Zune 2
Microsoft beefs up Zune music and community experience

Mint: Free online personal finance

October 2, 2007

I really like mint. Not the web stats app, the new personal finance app. It’s extremely simple to use, automatically pulling in information from your bank and credit card accounts, updating itself when you’re not even using it.
It’s completely free and smartly monetized through mutually beneficial offers from the site’s partners — [...]

New del.icio.us built with symfony

October 2, 2007

What better endorsement can PHP as a language and symfony as an enterprise framework for that language get than Yahoo! building the new delicious service with them. That’s the news from the official symfony blog, where they also note Yahoo! will be contributing their bug fixes and extensions back to the symfony community.

Free Ruby on Rails Book

October 2, 2007

SitePoint just released their Ruby on Rails book as a free download. Grab a copy while it’s available.

No wonder I can’t install an OS on it

October 2, 2007

New monitor and BSoDs

October 1, 2007

Can’t say I got much actual work done this weekend. I spent too much of it working on replacing my monitor and trying to build a media center PC to turn the old one into a nice TV.