…clear skies are here to stay…

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Also, after many long years of searching, I was finally graced with a new desktop application that allows me to uninstall The Weather Channel’s Desktop Weather forever!!! Such a bloated waste of computing power – it should not take 35 megs of memory to tell me what the temperature outside is… 😛

Konfabulator – simply put, it’s “whatever you want it to be!” From clock and sticky notes applets to desktop weather and all sorts of live feeds, this nifty little app allows you to run dozens of pre-developed and user-developed applets (or widgets, as they opt to call them), and if you’re really creative and would like to put your JavaScript skills to the test, feel free to create a widget of your own! Plus, they boast those shiny graphics and transparency features that we all crave nowadays, making your desktop resemble OS X all the more…

I’ve only dabbled with a handful of the bundled widgets included in the 7 MB install, but add-ons are small enough that even a dial-up user could essentially go to town. The largest selling point, though? I can run multiple instances of the weather widget to see just how freezing it is up north compared to here at home…or anywhere else in the world, if you want to nitpick!

They’ve got my stamp of approval – very cool, indeed!

“You are not affiliated with me!!!”

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I finally had a chance to watch The Incredibles (Disney / Pixar) this evening and boy, what an incredible flick! It just seemed like another fun movie to watch, much like Monsters, Inc. and A Bug’s Life and just about every movie that the two companies have done together over the past nine years. Come to think of it, I think I’ve actually enjoyed more of the recent joint ventures than I have any of the straight-up animated features that Disney has put out since establishing their relationship with Pixar…with the exception of Hercules, that is…

I think it’s going to be kind of sad when the two part ways after this next film, which is said to fulfill contractual obligations on Disney‘s behalf. I’m sure they’re simply doing it to save money, with talks of already planning to develop a Toy Story 3 in house, but I’ve just got this feeling that there’s going to be something missing up on that screen. Disney‘s got the wonderful stories, Pixar makes them come alive – that’s always how it’s worked in the past! Here’s to hoping that Pixar is able to keep things afloat after drifting away from the giant, and that we don’t merely end up with nothing more than a handful of Shrek clones from them while the mouse is busy counting his money. 🙁

It’s a son of a gun of a chorus…

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What’s up?

  • Thanksgiving passed us by last week without incident…not that one was expected, mind you. Several of my co-workers were kind enough to invite me into their homes in light of my own family living far, far away, and dinner was great! It was definitely good to just get away from the city for a day…
  • I got an early Christmas present from Mom this year, so I opted to pick up a new digital camerato replace my old one that broke about a year ago. So far it seems to be very nice – ultra compact (kinda makes me feel like a spy!) – but I haven’t really gotten a chance to see the photo quality from it yet. Maybe I’ll have to take it downtown with me tomorrow and just wander around for a bit.
  • Work has been, for lack of a better term, extremely frustratinglately, mostly because of office politics and immaturity. I left pissed off at least two out of the four days that I worked last week, so that can’t be good. Why can’t people just sit and do their jobs, rather than snoop around in search of things to complain about that don’t technically even involve them???
  • STARTING TOMORROW, I’m going to begin exercising – seriously! Even if it’s just a few sit-ups at the beginning and end of each day, taking the stairs every so often at work, or whatever – I’d hate to see it have to come down to my getting up even earlier to run or something! Must. Lose. Weight…
  • This is bad – I’ve had the Star Wars trilogy for week, but so far I’ve only watched the first one. It looks like in addition to getting a Christmas tree and setting it up, I’ll also have to squeeze in episode five to the agenda…after work, that is…
  • But alas, whatever this week brings forth, only six days from now I’ll be watching the fireworks at Epcot with the fellas. Damn – it took me fourteen months of living here to finally step inside a Disney theme park! 😛
  • P.S. I might write up something clever to reiterate what I’ve been most thankful for this year tomorrow night or something, but in the meantime I’ve been told that this one is kind of entertaining…