http://blog.hergert.us Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:27:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just downloaded Google Quick Search Box for Mac OS X, and I have to say its awesome. I mean, Wow, its just done so perfectly well. I would recommend it to everyone who owns a Mac. To begin with, it doesn't step on the toes of Spotlight. While ... http://blog.hergert.us/2009/09/google-desktop-for-mac-os-x-rocks/ You can follow me now on twitter and facebook. http://twitter.com/dhergert http://facebook.com/dhergert http://blog.hergert.us/2009/08/twitter-and-facebook/ Apparently there was a "hiccup" of sorts today at Google.  Every search result had a warning underneath it reading "This site may harm your computer".  Clicking through the link brought you to a Malware Warning page and you couldn't continue to your destination without copy/pasting the URL. Quite annoying. Obviously ... http://blog.hergert.us/2009/01/google-warning-on-every-search-result/ Lately I have been watching a few more YouTube videos that I used to.  Somehow I was browsing along, reading posts on Digg or something and stumbled across a guy named Philip DeFranco.  He's a pretty funny guy, he's got some interesting takes on the world and I think he ... http://blog.hergert.us/2009/01/online-videos-of-late/ Lately we've been thinking about getting a new computer.  The old one was getting a little out dated, noisy, slow, etc.  I had built it about 5 years ago when I was finished up college.  Bought all the parts from TigerDirect.com and put it together myself.  Was a nice little ... http://blog.hergert.us/2008/07/i-got-an-imac/ I must say, I like the new Windows Vista fonts. Although I don't yet have Windows Vista, its possible to get the fonts legally. I just changed my default system font over to Segoe UI. Trying to obtain it wasn't as straight forward as I thought, googling ... http://blog.hergert.us/2008/01/windows-vista-fonts-on-xp/ This summer, the big project was to build a shed. We have various other large projects around the house we'd like to get done, so we are trying to knock them off each year. Things like a bigger deck, redo the kitchen, master bathroom (maybe :)), etc. ... http://blog.hergert.us/2007/09/i-built-a-shed/ I was reading through the manual of a product I own today and came across this interesting safety image. I am curious to know what others think it means, I am sure there are a few funny captions which can be applied to it. I was thinking "don't eat ... http://blog.hergert.us/2007/06/what-do-you-think-this-image-means/ I've always heard about JavaOne over the past few years as I've been more keen to Java and the like, but have always been unable to attend. Well, last week I had the privilege of being sent to JavaOne in San Francisco, California on behalf of my company. ... http://blog.hergert.us/2007/05/javaone-2007/ Played euchre tonight with some neighbors. I won second place for the second month in a row. Not bad. I really look forward to Euchre nights, they are fun and I get to see neighbors that I don't get to see all that often. Got a ... http://blog.hergert.us/2007/02/euchre/