Miscellaneous
I travel quite often for business and pleasure, and I've learned some things that help make my journeys more pleasant for me and everyone around me. Below are my twelve tips for a happy travel experience. In the immortal words of the late Bob Ross, let's help to paint "happy little trees," "happy little clouds," and "pretty little mountains". :)
These are some of the best black and white and duotone photographs I've taken. Most of these photos were taken using my Nikon D200 digital camera. Some photos were taken using my Nikon Coolpix 4500 digital camera.
The lyrics to Billy Joel's We Didn't Start the Fire serve as a great history lesson, so I decided to create a page with the definitions of the lyrics in a "Web 2.0" style. All images and text are from Wikipedia unless otherwise noted. Words and music by Billy Joel. Hover over the links to see descriptions and images about the words.
Change Windows XP Start Button Text
I was bored with the same olde "Start" button, so I did a Google search on how to change the Start button text. Unfortunately, other tutorials make you edit the registry. In contrast, my step-by-step tutorial is quick and painless and requires no registry modifications. Please note: you make these changes to your system AT YOUR OWN RISK. Please back up your entire system and all files before following this procedure. And please be very careful. Nick Fessel makes no warranties that this process will work for you.
So you want to read Herman Melville's Moby Dick, but you don't want to carry around a ten-pound book. Well, save the trees, and save some money- using a small Windows program and the Notes feature of the 5th-generation iPod, you can load a fresh copy of Moby Dick and carry the book in your shirt pocket.
