Month: February 2002 (Page 4 of 4)

I have long been a fan of the Google toolbar for IE, which allows you to enter a search term right in the toolbar, without going to Google first.

Well now there’s Nutshell, which is the same idea, but you can choose to search in Google, IMDB, Amazon, Dictionary.com or Daypop. Cool.

(Bonus geek points if you know which current computer program, eclipsed by its Microsoft rival, was called “Nutshell” when it was first released in 1983.)

The newest Air Jordans disturb me on so many levels, it’s hard to keep them all separate.

But just off the top of my head, is anyone else a little disturbed by the idea of Spike Lee helping to advertise $200 sneakers to kids?

I was watching a little of “Gone With the Wind” on TNT and I started thinking, wouldn’t it be great to see blooper reels of classic movies? With DVD they tend to save every foot of film, in case it can be repackaged later on an expanded DVD. Mostly this stuff is trash, but every once in a while there is some funny and/or interesting stuff.

So I was thinking how entertaining it would be to see classic film stars flubbing their lines, etc.

“As God is my witness, I’ll never…………LINE?”

Does AOL have the right to block the multiple-chat client Trillian? I guess they do. It’s their system, and Trillian is just “pretending” to be an AIM client in order to hop on the network.

I was using Trillian for a while, mostly because I liked its interface better than the circa-Windows95 look of AIM. I don’t care about the multiple-client thing (you can also use Trillian for ICQ, Yahoo, etc.). I guess it just irritates me that AOL is blocking a potential souce for new users for their network because they can’t slap some more irritating ads in our faces.

Yeah, I live a hard life. 🙂