• Ever wonder about the difference between root beer, birch beer, and sarsaparilla?
    • or, when you get right down to it, between corned beef, and pastrami?
  • Opposing copyright extension!
      Sigh...
      Get informed, then get on board!
  • A deep link to thoughts about deep linking
      NPR gets into the act!
  • Need help with a crossword puzzle?
  • How to fight Telemarketers

  • The songs of
    • The Original Carter Family
    • Charlie Poole
    • Washington Phillips
    as I hear them.

  • Others' transcriptions of the songs of
    • Dock Boggs
  • Add abc guitar or mandolin tablature to abc music notation
  • Ever wonder about tortoise shell guitar picks?
  • Chordal Accompaniment on the Appalachian (Lap) Dulcimer: Ionian Tuning
  • In Praise of the Guitar-Banjo
  • Transferring LPs and cassettes to CD

  • A labor of love of early jazz
  • The Blue Room
  • The third hippest program on radio! (Sundays, 8 p.m. to midnight Eastern US)

  • Excellent freeware utility that makes slideshows of your digital pictures

  • MoveME v0.2final uses the keyboard (Windows key + arrows) to move panels that are so large that you can't get where you want them by dragging.

  • The Antifreeze Emergency Task Manager allows you to kill frozen tasks, for example, when a web browser freezes and no amount of clicking will get it to respond. I used to use WinPatrol's kill feature to do this. However, a stalled process often causes WinPatrol to take a while to respond where AntiFreeze responds instantly. The only difficult part about it is remembering the keyboard trigger sequence! It's Ctrl-Win-Alt-Home!

  • Get a copy of WinPatrol. Install it. Use it!
  • Some personal Windows Hints & Tricks
  • The Windows Annoyances web site. Go with the Pros!

  • A True Type Kntting Font!

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