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I managed to get the majority of the wood cuts done for my MAME cabinet today.  It took about an hour to mark each piece out, then about two hours of clamping the aluminum guide and running the circular saw.

Before I started the project, I never would have guessed how much work it would turn out to be.

The last cuts are going to be the cabinet sides.  Fortunately it’s better to cut both sides at the same time - this ensures that even if you make a mistake the cabinet sides will still match.

CNN.com, before and after installing Adblock.

It takes a bit of getting used to (remember your old DOS wildcard days?), but it’s pretty easy to come up with good patterns to block 90% of all ads within about 20 minutes.

In a word - still really amazing!  Oh wait, that’s three.  Well, Firefox sure deserves all three anyways!

Install it today - even though the promise of automatically installed spyware sure is mighty appealing.

I’m not certain how many of my readers are fellow Canadians, but copyright is certainly something on my mind this coming election.  There’s an excellent editorial in the Toronto Sun that Canadians should read.

I think I’ll be voting NDP this time around.

Scoble’s link blog posts an excerpt from the article, then seems to pick one of the links from within the article as the “More…” item.  There’s no way to read the full article!

I’m not sure that the blog is too useful for original-content (versus external linking) articles. 

This is an excerpt from one of my posts on his link blog:

.NET Desktop Apps - Slow & Bloated (from: grack.com)

I’ve got a couple of .NET desktop apps running on my work system (with a gig of RAM nonetheless) and it seems like they are always the applications that are sucking up the most memory. …More

Posted by scoble at 10:32 PM

There’s no way to read my the text of my article from there - it picked up the reference to Draco.NET that I placed in the post, but won’t let anyone visit my blog to read what I said. :)