Shawn Holwegner's Blog

lather. rinse. repeat.

Just my current desktop

Ok, I lied. It’s just my laptop’s desktop. Yes, I like stuff clean. The background is a picture of West Yellowstone, Montana, the pictures are mostly custom BeOS icons from aeons ago, and the window in the bottom right is my mod player, foobar 2000, which was even more difficult to setup than us...

Piping hot and steaming, fresh from the BBC:

“Hydrogen sulphide, a toxic gas that smells of rotten eggs, occurs naturally in swamps, springs and volcanoes. But in mice, it was found to slow down heart rate and breathing and decrease body temperature, while keeping a normal blood pressure.”

… no...

I’ll admit it. I’ll openly admit it. Here are a few reasons how, and why. I’ll explain how this has affected my thoughts, and my actions in the italics:

Any movie made in the last 10 years, unless it’s a comedy, dark comedy, or incredibly obscure – I probably haven’t seen it. I just don’t enjoy pa...

Google’s “Dear John” Letter (Click for much more legable copy)

Bogus! Denied. By Google!?

After running my blog for over five years, and supporting the fees of my open sourced software through AdSense since 2003, they’ve killed my account with no rhyme or reason.

I asked for clarification, and was told “Our system is pr...

Just in case you’ve missed it, FoxyTunes 2.0 is out:

The new FoxyTunes is mad sexy!

This FireFox and Thunderbird/etc plugin enables you to control your media player from a small little section of the status panel you mostly ignored anyhow. No more fumbling back and forth between applications with Alt-Tab, or mousing. Finall...