Saw a few movies recently: Slumdog Millionaire, Old Dogs, Sherlock Holmes, and Made of Honor.

Slumdog Millionaire – I enjoyed watching it, but it wasn’t the “MOST AMAZING MOVIE EVERRRRR” like everyone was telling me. It was fine, it was enjoyable, but I’m not watching it again.

Old Dogs – A pretty decent family movie with lots of silliness. Kept me amused.

Sherlock Holmes – I thought this was great. Mystery, light action, some romance… See it.

Made of Honor – A good romantic comedy. Watch it on TV like I did…

(a day late but) MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Merry Christmas Eve to everyone.

While working today I gave Timbaland’s newer album “Shock Value II” a listen. I’m not really happy with it. I was a fan of the original Shock Value but didn’t find any of the songs on Shock Value II very impressive. Nothing that had me humming along or hitting replay…

Oh well. Was nice while it lasted Timbaland.

This one is stuck in my head too… Weezer’s I want you to.

Listen

Rise Against’s Savior has been stuck in my head for DAYS.

Give it a listen

A riddle I found in some papers I have..

What runs all day and never walks,
Often murmurs, never talks;
It has a bed and never sleeps;
It has a mouth and never eats.

Guesses?

Answer: A River.

Went to the Pablove Foundation Benefit Show. A good concert for a good cause.

…though I do wish that Shirley Manson had done a couple more songs…

I have a Google Wave invite to give out. Who wants it? best comment with a one liner joke gets it.

Now that Windows 7 is being sold on PC’s, time to explore what the best utilities are to keep your Windows machine in shape.

Check out this article I wrote outlining the Best Windows 7 Utilities.

How to view hidden disconnected devices in the device manager on Vista?

In case you ever need to uninstall a device that is no longer connected to your Windows Vista machine, here is how you enable viewing of these devices in the device manager:
Go to Control Panel
System
Advanced System Settings
Environment Variables
New ( user variables if just for you or system variables for all users of your computer )
In the Variable Name box type devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices and in the Variable Value type 1.
Then you need to OK it twice.

Now return to the Device Manager, click on view, and show hidden devices.
The Hidden/Disconnected devices will now be displayed in gray. Have fun right clicking and uninstalling.

Have Windows XP or earlier? Try this:
Go to c:\windows\system32, find cmd.exe, right click and choose “run as administrator”
In the command window which opens, type:
Set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1 (press enter)
Devmgmt.msc (press enter)
In the device manager window which opens click View=>show hidden devices.