Author: Steve Novoselac

Director of Digital Technology @TrekBikes, Father, Musician, Cyclist, Homebrewer

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Geeky/Programming

Saint Cloud Times RSS Feed

Well, the other day, I wrote into the St. Cloud Times and asked them if they had RSS feeds for the news headlines. I got a reply that pretty much said “what do you want them for?” “go to hell”, so I did a little thinking, and just created a program to scrape the headlines and put them into a rss formatted XML file, so I can read them with my aggregator. I have it done, and I am testing it now, works like a champ. I will probably test it some more, then maybe put it up so other people can use it. 🙂

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Life

Metallica and Godsmack

Well, I went and saw Metallica and Godsmack at the Xcel Energy Center last night. Pretty sweet show. We were in a luxury suite, which was cool too. Godsmack played their singles, and they pretty much rocked. Metallica played some oldies and new ones, and they rocked too. The stage rotated around, which was something I have never seen, and all in all it was a rockin show. 5 bux a beer kinda sucked though (30 for a 6 pack, are you kidding me???)

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Geeky/Programming

Tabbrowser

Well, I emailed the creator of Sharpreader, and I stand corrected, sort of. You can download an extension for Firefox to open external links in new tabs, which solves my problem with that.

Tabbrowser

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Geeky/Programming

RSS Aggregation

Well, for a few months now, I have been reading Blogs and Newsfeeds with SharpReader. I really like SharpReader, but there are few features I think it is lacking. One is the ability to open a new window in a tab in firefox, another is an option to put in startup or not (without having to do it manually), and one thing, not really a feature, but just they way it works. I guess it would be nice to have it integrated into Outlook, so I didn’t have to run two programs. Well, I went looking and found NewsGator. It looks really cool, and integrates into Outlook, but it costs $$ (bummer). Maybe I will try it out, maybe I will get ambitious and just make my own, we will see. Check them out if you want.

SharpReader

NewsGator

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Life

August

I hate August. It just is like a go between Summer and Fall. It always seems like I am low in cash in August. And now, it is like 50 degrees outside, when it should be like 70. I am waiting for it to snow soon. August was always when cross country always started too, around the 15th. After the first week of August when all the fairs are over (except the State Fair), it seems to just be a blah period. I can’t wait for Autumn…..

Look at the reason why it is even called August, what a roundabout!

“August, eighth month of the year. Because it was the sixth month in the Roman year, which begins with March, it was originally named Sextilis (from Latin sextus,â€?sixthâ€?). It was given its present name in honor of the emperor Augustus, for several of the most fortunate events of his life occurred during this month. To make it equal to the fifth month, the name of which had been changed from Quintilis to Julius in honor of Julius Caesar, a day was taken from the month of February and added to August.”

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Geeky/Programming

Windows XP Service Pack 2 (for IT Professionals and Developers)

Well, the day is finally upon us, Windows XP Service Pack 2. I installed it on my work laptop, and will soon install it on my home pc’s. I ran the beta RC1 and RC2 and everything seemed to work fine. I am still going to keep my McAfee Firewall , but I might run the XP firewall too. Also IE finally blocks popups and allows you to manage BHO’s (Browser Helper Objects). The version I am linking to
is for developers and IT pros, it is the full install. The single computer install should be coming out this week, or soon.

Windows XP Service Pack 2 for IT Professionals and Developers

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Life

I've Got a Feeling….

Everybody had a hard year
Everybody had a good time
Everybody had a wet dream,
Everybody saw the sunshine

Everybody had a good year,
Everybody let their hair down,
Everybody pulled their socks up,
Everybody put their foot down.

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Geeky/Programming

Fedora..RedHat…wtf?

Ok, I am not a big Linux guy, but I think it is cool, kinda easy to use, and has some useful things to it. Red Hat 9 is pretty sweet, pretty cool, from the guys at RedHat. Well, this past year they decided to split off to “Enterprise Linux”, and charge for the OS. Now there is the “Fedora Project”, which is supposed to be the free version of Red Hat’s linux (but they don’t support it – wtf?). Anyways, for now I think I’ll stick with Red Hat 9, running on VMware. Maybe someday I’ll get brave and run it on a PC. Still some things just don’t work (the new Napster for one).

Anyways, I made my first c++ program in like 3 years today, on Red Hat (comes with complier and junk already installed). Pretty cool!

Red Hat

Fedora Project

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Blogging

Holy Redesign Batman!

Woah, so I went crazy and redesigned my blog. I also started on redesign of my website, and made them look similar, and link back and forth. Woah!

🙂

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Blogging

Welcome Back

I downloaded Mase’s new track, “Welcome Back”, his coming out of retirement debut. Pretty sweet I would have to say. It samples from the theme song of “Welcome Back, Kotter”. I always though Mase was kinda cool (at least for a rapper), and then he retired to become a minister. He said he was done with rap forever. Now he is back, and you can tell he has changed (“Livin la vida, without the loca”). Anyways, it is a cool song, and you can watch the video online too.

Mase’s “Welcome Back” Video