But Microsoft mouse doesn’t have Bluetooth! It’s a shame…

That side-to-side middle mouse button plays havoc with aps that require frequent middle-clicking (like 3ds Max or Maya). Many times it won’t register a middle-click at all. Our IT dept. kept giving the artists MS mice and having them returned. They finally clued in and started buying Logitech mice instead.

Heh. We’ve got you now.

Try Stephen Batchelor’s “Buddhism without Beliefs” too.

The author of Buddhism Plain and Simple, Steve Hagen, has a new book called Buddhism Is Not What You Think : Finding Freedom Beyond Beliefs.

Steve’s constant mantra of just seeing may seem a bit repetitive at first, but it illustrates how what we think is truth is clouded by our beliefs and perception of reality.

The RadioShark is a cool device, and probably works reasonably well on a Mac. On an XP box, however, it feels like a v0.5 product instead of a v1.0, though.

I can live with the UI using the brushed aluminum theme from OSX, I only need to look at it when I’m programming in my shows. I can live with only being able to record in 30-minute increments, I just have to ensure my clock is accurate and hope that the station’s one is too.

The biggest problem I have with it is that it decides that, despite my entering the starting time of my recordings in local time, what I really meant is the corresponding time in UTC, and adjusts them by an hour whenever daylight savings time starts or stops (because, apparently, that’s the way the stations will be deciding when to broadcast). So I miss all the shows I want to record until I manually adjust all my scheduled entries. Very annoying.

Watch out in the spring!

take the microsoft mouse back and get the logitech wireless laser, its sweet! http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002UM0JW/ref=pd_sxp_elt_l1/104-4531270-5127907?n=172282

Roger, can you elaborate?

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39.95 a year is steep? Compared to 12 * $14.95 a year, or $179.40, for Tivo (203.40 if you try the $16.95-a-month-but-the-box-is-free option) I’d say it’s a bargain!

But what we all really want is for scheduled radio shows like “A Prairie Home Companion” to offer a regularly scheduled podcast, of course… so we can just use software to retrieve it and dump it to the ol’ media player(s). I’d pay NPR for that, actually.

What I do for shows I like that don’t offer free podcasts (Car Talk, for example) is use Audio Hijack to capture the audio streams. I set it to record in the middle of the night and process the recorded show into iTunes automatically. Very useful app for recording any sound that your computer might play, only $16 for the “consumer-grade” version, and a free demo (overlays white noise after 20 minutes of recording). The Pro version allows more scheduling flexibility and more knobs to twiddle than you can shake a stick at, but I’ve found the cheap one quite functional for my needs.

http://www.rogueamoeba.com - they’ve got a bunch of nifty apps for helping you use your audio content when and where you want.

i don’t get why people dig cordless mouses so much… in CAD you end up using the mouse literally all day and I find the corded one heavy enough without having to lug around a battery pack as well.

Now that I’ve used a mouse with 5 extra buttons on top of the normal three I could never go back… you NEED a control, enter, delete, double click and alt button on your mouse…

also, the problem I’ve seen with those MS mice is the location of the laser pointer: down the bottom under the heel of your hand - this means that you get less translation of the mouse for every angle of rotation your wrist goes through (if you’re one of those people who doesn’t hover their arms 1.5 inches above the table and use their shoulder muscles for pushing the mouse around.)

Merlin, I loved your podcasts! Are you ever going to do another one?

Haley’s Hints and a Box of Borax. The PERFECT housewarming gift for those of us on a tight budget.

Re: Haley’s Hints and LifeHacks I remember reading, as a child, a story about women athletes - I believe it was Babe Didrikson who scrubbed floors in her youth by tying brushes to her feet and “skating” across the soapy surface.

Thanks for reccomending “Buddhism Plain and Simple”, I’ve seen it in the book store a few times. I’ll have to pick it up.

As soon as I released that Buddhism wasn’t really about religion but more learning about how everything changes and then using that change to change the way you look at things.

A book that emphasizes that would be great.

I want to try the Logitech laser mouse, but I never got around to buying one. The Microsoft one does not have bluetooth, so I cant use it!