Shawn Holwegner's Blog

Connecting instead of connection.

I’ll admit it. I’ll openly admit it. Here are a few reasons how, and why. I’ll explain how this has affected my thoughts, and my actions in the italics:

Any movie made in the last 10 years, unless it’s a comedy, dark comedy, or incredibly obscure – I probably haven’t seen it. I just don’t enjoy pa...

Google’s “Dear John” Letter (Click for much more legable copy)

Bogus! Denied. By Google!?

After running my blog for over five years, and supporting the fees of my open sourced software through AdSense since 2003, they’ve killed my account with no rhyme or reason.

I asked for clarification, and was told “Our system is pr...

Just in case you’ve missed it, FoxyTunes 2.0 is out:

The new FoxyTunes is mad sexy!

This FireFox and Thunderbird/etc plugin enables you to control your media player from a small little section of the status panel you mostly ignored anyhow. No more fumbling back and forth between applications with Alt-Tab, or mousing. Finall...

I have nothing I can say, or offer to those families directly affected, or indirectly by this act of terrorism, but my heart goes out to them.

It makes me sad, yes – yet, sickly, I feel pride: We don’t deal with these attacks every day. For all of our faults, we are strong, and we shall not forget...

I’ve heard these are all the rage, and shave at least ten years off of your intellectual profile..

  • You scored higher than 99% on darkness.
  • You scored higher than 99% on spontaneity.
  • You scored higher than 99% on vulgarity.

Oh my, it’s true. Everyone my age is dead, or doesn...

Here you thought your music was insane

The above computation is actually erring on the side of lenency.. and yet, it’s one of my favorite relaxing tunes by Gustav Grefburg.

You kids and your silly little 180BPM songs. Pfft. ;)