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Connecting Your Apple Magic Mouse to Windows 7

Having trouble connecting your Apple Bluetooth Magic Mouse to your new Windows 7 installation? I think I can help… Scoured the net on how to connect my new Magic Mouse via Bluetooth to Windows 7. I knew the drivers existed for Boot Camp 3.1 but the bluetooth radio was not connecting to my mouse. There [...]

One Year Later…

Okay, so more than a year later… I’ve decided to write in my blog again and try to write more helpful posts. I stopped checking the progress of my blog for about 6 months until I realized that one of my posts is actually getting some decent hits. People are always looking for help or [...]

FUNctional

I love my bike and I love writing about it. I realized over the weekend and tonight that my bike has been more than just some fun toy. It’s actually allowed me to get around Long Beach in a fun and inexpensive way. I got home today very hungry and was thinking about where to [...]

Another Successful Ride

Starting to realize that riding a road bike is really easy but the upside is that it allows me to go longer distances and to ride longer. I think it’s a good balance of being able to get a decent workout and being able to get to where you want to go. I think I’ve [...]

A Healthy Trade-Off

Q: What do you do when you stop playing video games? A: You buy a road bike. This is exactly what I did yesterday. I put my PS3 up for sale on Craigslist and it was sold immediately. With the money from the PS3 I drove straight to REI and bought my heavily researched Novara [...]

Don’t Use Wikipedia to Sound Smart

Courtney [2:07 PM]: internet meme? ‎‎Michael‎‎ [2:08 PM]: The term Internet meme is a neologism used to describe a catchphrase or concept that spreads quickly from person to person via the Internet. ‎‎Courtney‎‎ [2:09 PM]: did you just copy n paste the wiki def? ‎‎Michael‎‎ [2:09 PM]: of course not…. ….. …. okay so I [...]

Professions and Music

Just had an interesting conversation with a co-worker. We were talking about music we listened to while on a deadline. I happily told him, “Definitely, Daft Punk…  I totally get a rush off them.” A few seconds later he says, “Sometimes, I listen to Spy Games or the Enemy of the State soundtrack. Like I’m [...]

Word of the Day

Defenestrate: is the act of throwing someone or something out of a window. Okay, if you cannot think of many cool ways to use this word then please leave my blog now or I’ll defenestrate you. Hahahaha… I’m so witty… okay no I’m not. Anyway, I discovered this word having a little chat with my [...]

Twitter Made Me Do It

My very first post I wrote about my annoyance with newcomer identi.ca. Another Twitter clone with almost the same exact features, and I thought to myself “why bother?” Yesterday, is why I bothered. Twitter has had a major failure with their database with regards to follower counts. Not a very big deal for me since [...]

Flash CS3 Root Timeline Control Within Movie Clips

So I decided I would use the blog to talk about some things I’ve learned about Flash CS3. It’s been a lot of fun learning Actionscript 3 but there are some things that aren’t so intuitive or obvious. One of those things I struggled with tonight was controlling the root timeline from within a Movie [...]