January 2004 - Posts

Online Bookmark Manager

Well thanks to a comment on an old post. I'm now using Crutons as my bookmark manager. So far I like what I see. I have tried a lot of them and this one meets my needs the best out of all of them (If you look at the comments of the old post there were a lot of recommendations and I looked at everyone). It doesn't have very much documentation but it is pretty simple to use but I would still like a to see a little more documentation. As for features it has most of the features that I was looking for, including rearranging nodes via drag and drop, support for Firebird and IE sidebars, and a search feature.

Most of the other ones I have tried out I haven't, used more than a day so lets see how this one fairs. I have a good feeling that I'm going to stick with it. If you are in the market for a online bookmark manager give it a look, best of all its free :)


EDIT: After some more investigation I realized that the Cruton product is just a wrapper around the Sitebar Project (an Open Source Project). Which turns out to be good for me, becuase I wanted to customize and host this myself. So I have downloaded it and I'm playing with the source now.

Virtual CDRom Drive

Do you have a few CD ISO's and hate burning a CD every time to access the data?

I had that problem this morning so I went searching for a solution and I found (thanks to Brian Desmond's blog post) that Microsoft has an unsupported utility "Virtual CDRom Control Panel" That will allow you to create drives from CD ISO disk images. How cool is that? I'm using it on a Windows 2003 Server but it is also supposed to work on Windows XP.

Microsoft Internship Interview

Well I have my plane, hotel, and car reservations for my internship interview with Microsoft on Jan 30. I'm going to be interviewing for a software design engineer position. Besides for Chris Sell's Microsoft Interview Tips, does anyone have any tips or pointers for me?

I guess I will finally get to see the Microsoft campus, even if I don't get the position it will be worth the trip (especially since it is free)

Trip to India

Well it has been a while since I last blogged its also been a while since I’ve been on my computer (luckily I some how survived without my computer for 3 weeks). I just got back Sunday from a 3 week trip to India. I meet my wife's family members for the first time, I have no idea how many people I met but it was a whole lot. I was in Mumbai with her parents most of the time but I did get to visit New Deli, Agra (Taj Mahal), Jodhpur, and the deserts of Jaisalmer.

This was my first trip to India, and it was a big eye opener, it is a whole other world. Overall I think it was a very nice trip. Right now I’m looking at software to post pictures online once I do I will post my India trip pictures. nGallery looks to be the most promising right now although I think I may change a couple things in the source code.

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