Neko Case has a new album out. I bought it, but haven’t had time to listen to it yet. That will happen this weekend.
What I have been listening to a lot of is Nico Stai. I don’t know much about him, aside from the fact that he’s a wee baby, but I came across one of his songs, then checked out a couple more, and ended up buying everything of his I could get my hands on.
When I first got Cracktop, I wasn’t so happy about using a track pad with applications like Photoshop. I’ve used track pads before, but they never worked very well for me. Trying to use one in Photoshop was just a royal pain in my ass. But, I told myself that I’d use this one for awhile, to give it a thorough test drive. If I sill hated it after a couple of months, I’d get a USB mouse. Well, it’s been almost two months, and I’m finding that I rarely wish I had a mouse. In fact, I find myself wishing my work computer had a track pad.
Part of it is that my laptop’s track pad is much more customizable than other tracking devides I’ve had in the past. I’ve been able to teach it to do what I want, instead of having to train myself. It also helps that I’ve made myself take long enough to get used to it. I was really frustrated with it on several occasions (yelling at your computer is not very effective, apparently), but since I didn’t have another alternative on hand, I was forced to work through it. And now, I’m quite happy with Mr. Track Pad.
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Amazon now has an “Add to Wish List” button for your browser’s bookmarks toolbar. I tried it out this morning, and I give it two enthusiastic thumbs up. No more bookmarking vendors’ pages, because they don’t have a wish list option. Or hoping that the page I bookmarked will still be there when I finally get around to purchasing what I want. Or having to clean out a folder full of year-old links to God only knows what. Added bonus, Amazon gives you a space to add notes for each item, which is handy.
You can make a separate wish list at Amazon for each vendor (assuming you buy from them frequently enough to warrant it), or a single separate list for all your non-Amazon items, or you can do what I did, and just save them to your default Amazon wish list. That way, you can prioritize and inter-sort them with all your other items.
I’m not a big fan of lots of extra browser toolbar add-ons, but this one is extremely helpful to me.
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