Alcohol rocks
The isopropyl variety. I found out today that you can use it to remove stickers from books! Put some on a cloth and rub it on the sticker, let it sit a while and then do it again, peel what you can of the sticker off the book then rub the gooey bit with the rag soaked in alcohol and it comes off easy! Yay for books with no stickers.
- posted by Nick @ 8/29/2007 12:01:00 AM | 0 comments

 
Milk & Yellowjacket nest
"Milk and yellowjacket nest it fills me up
with a yellowjacket nest on my plate and some milk in my cup."


- posted by Nick @ 8/28/2007 11:43:00 PM | 0 comments

 
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Sound]"Beep"=


YES???

For some reason the install of Vista to Acer laptops (or at least mine) has this incredibly annoying system beep type beep turned ON. This beep sounds very LOUDLY at random events (such as any time I click on a filename in InfraRecorder. Not double click, simply click on. This is annoying when the headphones aren't plugged in, or when they are plugged in but not on my head. It is painful if they are plugged in and on my head...

There are plenty of other random occurrences that cause it to give off this deafening beep and I had not been able to figure out why in the world it was doing this. Now I have found out that there is a registry key to turn this infuriating "feature" on or off and at least on my laptop it defaulted to on.

Add this to the list of things I absolutely abhor about Windows Vista. Another is the fact that I still can't get it to see my XP computer on the network.

Shoot me now...
- posted by Nick @ 8/28/2007 04:54:00 PM | 0 comments