You can now go get into the Christmas spirit, because XmasRadio.ca has been launched. XmasRadio.ca is powered by BlueFur, and delivers over 4 days of Christmas music randomly during the Christmas season every year.
Oh, and, if you live in the Greater Vancouver Area, look outside for more Christmas spirit goodness. 
If you’re in Canada or the United States, don’t forget to set your clocks back one hour tonight. Your computers should automatically change. If you have your cell phone set to network time, it should change to, although you may need to restart it for it to grab the network time again.
If you have a WordPress blog, don’t forget to adjust the time offset for DST. It’s under the section “Date and Time” on the Options page. It’s likely similar for other blogging software to.
Make sure you change every clock, though, otherwise it might screw you up a bit. š
At least it won’t be as dark in the mornings anymore. š
Book Three (name not yet released) of the Inheritance Cycle was announced today. It will be published on September 28, 2008. The Inheritance Cycle’s first 2 books are called Eragon and Eldest.
You may have noticed that I’m calling it the Inheritance Cycle and not the Inheritance Trilogy. This is the interesting part. Along with the announcement of the third book’s release date was a video by, the author, Christopher Paolini.
“I plotted out the Inheritance series as a trilogy nine years ago, when I was fifteen. At that time, I never
imagined Iād write all three books, much less that they would be published” said Paolini. “When I finally
delved into Book Three, it soon became obvious that the remainder of the story was far too big to fit in one
volume. Having spent so long thinking about the series as a trilogy, it was difficult for me to realize that, in
order to be true to my characters and to address all of the plot points and unanswered questions Eragon and
Eldest raised, I needed to split the end of the series into two books.”
Yes, that’s right, a Fourth Book! Paolini also mentioned that a main character will die at the end of Book Three… I wonder who…
Random House also released a press release (pdf) for the announcement.
I’ve read both Eragon and Eldest and have been wondering when Book Three would be coming out. Not for another 11 months, though… Oh well, at least there will be another book after that to!
Oh, and Eragon and Eldest are great books, and I’d recommend anyone to read them!
Anyone else wondering when they’ll be able to login to FeedBurner through their Google account? I think Google should actually do this. It will be another wedge in the circle that is Google’s useful and all-in-one-login services. It’s quite handy because I can sign into Gmail, then go to Google Reader, Adsense, Analytics and Docs and already be logged in.
Also, is anybody else wanting to see FeedBurner subscriber stats in Analytics? I’d like to see this, so that I can just go to Analytics and kill two birds with one stone. It’s also be pretty cool to see a graph comparing unique visitors to the number of subscribers you get.
I think if Google does both these things then FeedBurner will be an even better. š
Anyone else see the irony in this?
Here’s the story. User Account Control came up and asked if Java Update could run, I clicked allow, and Java had an update. So it plants an icon in the tray and a little balloon pops-up saying that if I update Java I can get OpenOffice for FREE. Thinking this was strange, I clicked on the icon and the above window came up.
I’m thinking “WTF??? OpenOffice is free anyways, regardless of it you update Java”. So I clicked the “More information…” link and it opened up a tab in my browser to this page. But, why is Java advertising for OpenOffice?
So, it turns out that Sun Microsystems (creators of Java) actually founded OpenOffice. I actually never noticed that (either that or I forgot).
I guess that explains why Java is advertising OpenOffice, because they’re both owned by the same company.
Although that fact that the window says “To get a FREE copy[…] click the More Information link” is a little weird. Since the product is free and you don’t need to click on that link to get it free anyways…
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