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This is genius. My metrosexual self needs hair stuff, and I happen to love Bumble and Bumble Sumo Tech. Only problem is I always forget to re-order it and run out. It's not easy to find and I don't know or frequent the women's beauty shops to know where to find it.

Anyway, I just noticed Amazon now has a new feature called Subscribe and Save.

What Is Subscribe & Save?

When you order through Subscribe & Save, you'll automatically receive a new shipment of the item in intervals you select at a discount on our everyday price. Plus, all subscription orders ship free. We'll charge your credit card for each order only when the item is shipped, and you may cancel at any time.
To start a subscription for this product, choose a quantity and delivery schedule, then click "Subscribe now!" You'll be asked to provide a shipping address, credit card, and billing address. Once the order is placed, your first shipment will be processed and your subscription activated.

I LOVE YOU AMAZON! .

Jott is a great service for GTD type folks. When you are out and about, you call a phone number and leave a message. Within seconds you will get an email with a transcription of your message.

For example, I called  the Jott number (after the registration process) and left a message "Call mom about her flight tomorrow". A few seconds later this appeared:

Very cool indeed.

[via Scoble]

Brilliant... Ordered my t-shirt.

Ok, I happen to like "The Wow" ads that Microsoft is running for Vista. However, in the last week I have seen/heard at least two people say something like "Where is the Wow in this product" and "The wow effect".

I have a bad feeling that this silly phrase will be repeated for a long time to come. I find it annoying.

"The Wow" is clever marketing. It should not be used to describe or promote your feature product IMHO. I'm pretty sure people building Vista weren't thinking about "The Wow" when they were writing specs and code. Maybe I'm wrong though.

Even at Microsoft it seems some people didn't get the memo. I witnessed a meeting today where a nameless person who relied on their Samsung Blackjack missed the meeting.

Windows Mobile needs software auto-update.

Funny how you think you know about ever hidden feature and shortcut. Well Sean tells us about Inline Autocomplete and what it does. I for one had no idea and am glad I found out .

I had the exact same experience as Dennis when I reported a bug in Turbotax.

Basically Turbotax 2003 screwed up my mortgage interest deduction on amortized points. When I sold my condo last year I was eligible to take that mortgage interest deduction for the point that I paid.

However, it never reported that I paid any points in the year that I got the loan, and didn't amortize anything. As a result the calculations were incorrect (only off by a few dollars) but if I corrected it I would not be able to e-file.

Anyway, the emails they sent me were exactly the same. You cannot respond to them.

This has become one of my favorite Vista SideBar Gadgets.

This is just too funny. Vista Speech Recognition is pretty amazing, but I've felt like this on a few occasions.

I LOVE Lenovo. Maybe it's the fact that I LOVE my ThinkPad T60, or the fact that Lenovo folks have great blogs... or maybe even that all their little applications share the same start menu shortcut and grouping and icons. I can't think of any other PC OEM that has employees that blog about their hardware. I find it especially cool. You can tell from their posts that they love their product and they are proud of what they do and who they work for. That makes me feel better about my ThinkPad. They are also honest about things like Crapware.

Having just read their anniversary post on the Lenovo 3000 series I'm inclined to get the J115 for my parents. I'm also inclined to tell my sister to ditch getting the Sony Vaio and get a 3000 series laptop.

You know since giving up on a Mac Laptop years ago, I've owned two Sony's, one Compaq, two Toshiba's, a Dell and a Fujitsu. Lenovo is far and away the better laptop. My Dell had it's motherboard replaced 5 times.

I'm so happy the ThinkPads are available at Microsoft now (sanctioned by our IT department).

Oh, the best idea I've heard in a while is mentioned on the Happy Birthday Lenovo 3000 series. Replace the stupid S-Video port on laptops with an HDMI port. That would at least keep me from going crazy that all PC laptops still have VGA and not DVI on board. If you replace s-video with HDMI then you get the best of both worlds: VGA for legacy compatibility and projectors, and HDMI for digital video out.

I hope some one takes that idea and runs with it.

Head over to the PIX blog to find out more.

Hopefully this first big photo codec release for Vista was a lesson to all and this sort of thing is not repeated. Modifying a RAW file and not having that file work was a bit scary (even scarier is that it appears that I was the first person inside Microsoft to find and report this bug).

It worries me that Nikon's QA isn't all that. No one there dogfooded this product or uses Adobe software?

Anyway, I'm glad it's fixed and the Microsoft and Nikon folks worked together to address the problem quickly.

I admit, I'm an Intel man. I love their motherboards, core 2 duo, and so on. However, after reading this I'm a bit perplexed. What the hell is Intel doing waiting for SP1? I mean common.

I may just have to consider AMD next time around.

I'd also like to point out that the nVidia drivers for Vista are crap and featureless. I can't even change resolutions or add custom resolutions using their control panel. Meanwhile ATI (now part of AMD) has awesome Vista drivers.

When I read the AMD memo it just made me proud of the work that folks at Microsoft have done to get Vista out.

I'm writing this post on all the vista features that I love as I find them, but it's taking forever because I keep finding new things. Like did you know that robocopy is built into Vista? Kick ass!

Reeves has a rather humorous post all geeks can relate to.

You decide to update some piece of software or hardware that is working perfectly fine as it is. You do it because you want that new feature, bug fix, firmware update or whatever. You do it in a hurry, like 5 min before you need to walk out the door... and then you go Noooooooo!!!!! Because something went horribly wrong. Or you do it the night before you need to get up at 5 am for a flight somewhere... you know what I mean. You screw the thing up so bad you don't get any sleep and you hate yourself vowing never to do anything like that again.

I do disagree with Reeves' first point "If it ain't broke, don't fix it.". Um, that's not how we are built... .

I finally FINALLY got around to setting up my own source control server. I haven't been using one for all my little projects and it's been driving me crazy.

I thought it would be difficult. With dasBlog we use the excellent TortoiseSVN project to manage our Subversion source repository so I figured I'd see if I could use that.

I asked around on the dasBlog developers mailing list and a number of folks are using SVN with it's built in server and protocol support.

Problem is, setup was a bit complicated. But to make things easier some one has put together SVN 1-Click Setup. It is in fact a one click installer you run on your server.

IT ROCKS.

I set up DynDns on my kick ass D-Link DGL-4100 Broadband Gaming Router and added the correct port and now I can checkin and checkout from anywhere.

BTW, I installed it on my Vista Media Center since it runs pretty much 24/7.

Now I can sleep better at night, and another checkbox on the @Someday/Maybe list. Wohoo!

I knew there was a reason IE 7 has a wacky File Menu location.

It's something that someone designed into Vista. I accidentally pressed Alt in the Shell today and was greeted with this:

Hmm, not as ugly or weird as IE 7's, but at least I know where to point the finger now.