Thursday, April 24, 2008

Downloading videos from Youtube

This is kind of cool.... a way to save videos from Youtube.

First, you need to install the Firefox web browser. http://www.getfirefox.com

Second, install the Greasemonkey addon. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748

Third, install Yourtube script ("install this script" button on the right). http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25145

Enjoy!

Sunday, April 13, 2008

I need new brakes...

My brakes are squeaking.... I couldn't figure out which ones, so I went and bought a jack and jackstands to look and see. It appears that the front brakes still have plenty of "meat" on them, but the rears are like... nasty looking. The rotors look like hell too. I think I'm going to attempt to replace both. I went ahead and rotated my tires since I had them off anyway. It had been a while since I'd had that done.

I'll probably attempt to change my rear brakes myself. Reading online, it doesn't sound too difficult.

Wheeeeeeee!

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Is there ever anything interesting?

I never have anything interesting to say. My life is boring. I released the Keyfinder as open source earlier this month. I haven't done any updates on it since then. I'm looking at the XML formatting, but I just feel exhausted anymore.

I bought a hard drive a couple of weeks ago. 500GB Seagate. It was on sale at Best Buy for around $110. Not a bad price.

I install it that Sunday. Move some data over to it. I come home from work the following Friday.... dead. Computer won't recognize that it exists. It powers up. You can feel it spin. It was awesome. I love losing around 300GB of stuff.... always makes you feel wonderful.

I'm thinking about building a 0+1 raid box with a couple of terabytes of space. It's not cheap though, so I haven't done it yet. One day....