I just discovered that one of the few issues I have with Gmail has been fixed. You can now change the “From:” header to something other than your Gmail address. I never liked having my mail come from gmail.com, especially when sending office email, but the benefits for me outweighed any possible confusion. Just followed these instructions and all is well.

For a long time, I resented, despised and otherwise looked upon me-first, terrorist-loving commie Hummer owners with utter disdain. Then as one of the bastards cut me off yesterday, I realized that I may have been wrong. Men don’t own Hummers by choice. They own them because they have to. It’s the only thing that could possibly compensate for having no cock.

…but I want one! (http://www.csbcommodities.com/)

I’m not a Java guy, but there is such a thing, and many of them are drinking the Ruby on Rails kool-aid. Take for example Jason Hunter, who’s written books on Servlet programming and generally seems like smart fella. Jason’s piece, The Innovator’s Dilemma: It’s Happening to Java discusses what many believe to be happening – “… Rails today looks poised to eat Java’s mindshare on the web tier.” “I heard today from someone involved with Java at Sun that Ruby on Rails “doesn’t scale”.

From the MSN Money article… “If your money is invested in common stocks and you achieve the average compound annual rate on large-capitalization U.S. stocks, 10.7%, your account will grow to $9,378 at the end of the fourth year. You will be 20 years old. Invested in the same way, with no additional savings, the account will grow to: $25,917 by the time you are 30

Here a nice article about identifying falsified images

My dad, godluvim, just stopped at my house and took all of the wood parts off my old gas grill. Says he was bored and thought he’d strip and restain them – make it look goodasnew. This of course coincided with a wave of guilt and regret. Why didn’t I do that? Why is my lawn a mess and when am I going to clean the spare room in the basement?

In a post titled Hurry! Seth Godin discusses the common failing of doing what’s urgent rather than what’s important. “The easiest thing to do is to allow the urgency of the situation to force us to make the decisions (or take the actions) that we’d rather not take. Why? Because then we don’t have to take responsibility for what happens. The situation is at fault, not us. The beauty of the asymptotic curve is that at every step along the way, running ever faster for the plane is totally justified.

Boing Boing offers $1,000,000 to anyone who can “…produce empirical evidence which proves that Jesus is not the son of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.” Have you been touched by his Noodly Appendage?

It’s amazing how my perception of a particular piece of software can change over time. Some apps have tricked me into liking them, only to eventually fail. Others I’ve tried and hated, then grown to love. An example of the latter is Circus Ponies Notebook. I’ve tried this critter twice before and hated it. It looks like a spiral notebook for crying out loud. How can I take that at all seriously?

As a big fan of Roger Ebert (and yes, he’s smarter than you and I put together) I was delighted to find a list of his most hated movies Joe Dirt, check. The Waterboy, check. Armageddon, I’m witchya. Tommy Boy… wait a *#&$%ing minute! Tommy Boy?!! I can be a little bit of a film snob, but damn Rog, how dare you claim that “There are no memorable lines!” I use a line from the movie practically every day and my daughter and I can have entire conversations built upon bits from the movie.

If, like me, you sometimes wish that your favorite app’s keyboard shortcuts were implemented differently, give Unsanity’s Menu Master a try. There are other, free ways to modify menus, but nothing could be simpler than hovering over a menu in any app and pressing your preferred shortcut. Worth the $10.