Know It Or Blow It

Running Rhapsody all day, I got really annoyed by the fact that it stayed in my toolbar, and that there was no way to minimize it to the system tray. For a while I used DM2 as my window manager to minimize it, but even with all additional functions disabled it was still way to intrusive, way to complicated for everyones use, and doubleclicking the systray icon would not do what I wanted it to do.

But then I found TrayIt!, a minimalist, freeware window manager, which does only one thing: Minimize applications to the system tray (all I needed). I set it to automatically put Rhapsody in the system tray when I minimize it, left all other settings untouched, and it works like it is supposed to do, and I hardly ever notice it. Highly recommended! (local copy of TrayIt! 3?)

Because I got a new laptop, I wanted to view/save all my passwords stored by IE over the years. Some of them I really don’t know anymore (AutoComplete makes you lazy), and I hate finding out in a couple of months that I forgot that one password for that one important site.

I found quite a lot of shareware tools, but of couse I wanted a freeware version (as these shareware tools probably profit from some open source code), also because it has a one-time need.

As I used IE7 (rc1), this became a bit harder, as IE7 has changed the way the passwords are store. However, with a bit of luck I found the excellent IE PassView - Internet Explorer 7.0 Password Viewer (released 2 days ago). IE7 compatible, command line export mode, all I needed!

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Just ordered the Liebherr WTes 4677, as I ofcourse need to keep all my newly bought wines on temperature

Went shopping around for it, and there is € 1000 difference in pricing between the same model in The Netherlands and Germany. Nice uniform european pricing…

I now already have bought a floor, a kitchen and a wine cabinet for my new appartment, and the TV will be coming soon as well. Furniture is sooooo passé!

Because of my new appartment, I’m shopping around for quite some stuff (floor, kitchen, bathroom, furniture etc.) Yesterday, I found the Dornbracht RainSky E. Simply amazing, showering not just in water (rain drops!), but showering in light and fragrance as well.

When I went looking for prices though, I only found 1 place which advertised the price for the RainSky E: € 9.700, excluding the remote control (€ 1.700)… The RainSky M was pretty much available everywhere (around € 5.000).

DAMN, they are expensive. I think I can live without the mist and fragrance option, I suppose.

As quite a lot of people know by now, AOL screwed up “a bit” by releasing search data. They took it offline ofcourse when it hit the news, but mirrors are appearing quickly.

While browsing the data, I/others found quite some interesting stuff, like people wanting to commit murder,
but I also want to point out the following user-trace of user 14109288 (stripped a bit for readability):

sexual positions          2006-05-22 21:57:18  http://www.sexualpositionsfree.com
sexual positions          2006-05-22 21:57:18  http://www.askmen.com
sexual positions          2006-05-22 21:57:18  http://www.condoms.au.com
premature ejaculation     2006-05-22 22:20:23  http://www.webmd.com

Note the timestamps of the last two lines, sounds like he had, well, an evening that did not go as planned