My Desktop – Music

In this post, I’ll focus on the application in the top-right: Sonata.  Sonata, through a strange series of relationships, hooks up with my music library.  To be technical, it is a gui interface to the music player daemon (mpd), which in turn scans my /mnt/windows/Music directory each day for new music (with a handy /etc/cron.daily [...]

My Desktop – The Web

We all spend a lot of time browsing the web.  The only thing that makes us different is how we interact with the web, whether it be through our choice of web browser or frequented websites.

When browsing the web, Firefox 3 is my first choice because of its vast number of extensions and themes.
On the [...]

My Desktop

When writing a blog for an audience, it’s important to establish an identity for your viewers. Since this is a technology orientated blog, I can think of no better way then by introducing myself with a screenshot. 
Over the next few posts, I’m going to break down this screenshot with descriptions and, of course, [...]

Rationale

Hey.
Welcome to my blog.
This is basically my effort to solve my dilemma: How do I keep track of various discoveries (you know, the little hacks and tricks you find after pressing random keys or trying different coding practices) in the event of a total computer crash? Well the answer is simple: let someone else [...]