ShowStealer Pro→

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Featured in Arrested Development Season 4, this is the software that lets you:
  • Get copies of your favourite TV episodes easily
  • Use them in your own remixes and mash-ups
  • Break copyright protection and DRM quickly
  • Export directly to your film editing suite

Mitch Hurwitz and company are still sweating the small stuff. Click through for the feature list, testimonials, and more. And click here if you have no idea what I'm talking about.

Adventures in Paragraph-Free Blogging

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Well, it's been 7 months. Might as well let you know what I've been up to.

  • I grew a beard, then shaved it off, then grew it again, over and over and over again.
  • I moved from my apartment in Cleveland Park to an apartment I'm sharing with my friend, Drew, in The Center of Cool DC (i.e., the 14th St. Corridor between Logan Circle and U St.).
  • I obsessed over Foursquare and Twitter and Google Reader (and, related to these things, Fojol Brothers, ChurchKey, Google Wave, and Android). These obsessions have yet to wane, and indeed I have managed to infect many other people (but not enough!) with them.
  • I went to Spain and ate all of that country's pork and foie gras.
  • I listened to the same music as ever--Daft Punk, Kanye West, Chromeo, Ratatat, the Old 97's, Lily Allen, Lil Wayne, and Michael Jackson's "Beat It"--on a continuously rotating basis.
  • I relished the most recent seasons of Lost and Mad Men, and have so far found the current season of Top Chef to be a very enjoyable return to form. Dollhouse was as good as it could possibly be, but that actually wasn't very good at all--it was a fundamentally flawed show that richly deserves cancellation.
  • The Redskins went 2-6 against the easiest first-half schedule in the history of the NFL, because the owner refuses to hire professionals to manage the team and let them make football decisions. But then they won one game, and now everyone loves them again!
  • Obviously, I completely lost the habit of posting anything on my blog. This may be permanent, although I would like to get back to it (even though, as I may explain in a forthcoming blog post, Twitter + Google Reader have essentially replaced whatever meager benefits I used to get out of having a blog).

And... that's all, folks. See you again in 2010!

Nobody cares about my other posts, however.

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After I take the bar, maybe I'll have time for posts based on something other than my site visitor logs (or cut-and-pasting from someone else's blog). Until then...

I've been thinking about my most popular posts, in terms of hits (most coming from web search sites). The common thread is that Googlers really want to know how to do stuff: how to reset their ipods, how to block the stupid video on ESPN's homepage, and how John Basedow died in the tsunami (or not).

The first two links (A and B) consistently get more hits than the rest of my blog, combined. The ESPN one, I get--it was linked by Deadspin, and actually fixes a problem that lots of people have. But the iPod one is even more popular, and the actual content of the post is basically just a series of links to other, useful sites. I don't understand it.

And the John Basedow post is not actually that popular, but it is a personal favorite, especially since the lazyweb came up big and I now have the mp3 of the John Basedow theme song, of which I will never tire.

Now You Know.