I’m moving this blog over to antonolsen.com. This site will remain here to keep the search engines happy.
This is all part of my attempt to take over the #1 spot on google for Anton. If you’d like to help, drop a link to antonolsen.com with Anton as the text.
I picked up a Nintendo Wii at the Target North in San Antonio this morning. (1604 and Blanco) They still had 10 or so on the shelf if you’re interested. I’ll try to post about the unboxing tonight.
The bug to buy a Wii has bit me and I’m much too lazy to run around to all the stores so I’ve written a BASH script to check Amazon and email me when they are in stock.
I’ll publish the script right after I order my Wii.
If you’ve already got a Wii, be sure to check out my growing line of Wii shirts. Ok by growing I mean one, but I do have a list of a more sayings to put on them.
[UPDATE] Printfection though the Wii Hugger shirt was a copyright violation so I’ve taken it down until I can redesign it a little. I believe it’s a parody and falls well within the fair use laws but don’t have the time to argue with anyone about it now.
Wow, the holiday season was busy. I’ve been posting some links over at lr2.com but neglecting my hobbies.
To kick off the new year I’ve created a new buddy icon. I got the idea from a howto that I read a week ago, but did my own thing with The Gimp. I’ve since been shown Inkscape and Xara and plan to redo it in one of them soon. Both are similar vector based drawing packages and open source. As a bonus they are both available for apt-get on Ubuntu.
I’ll try to find the time to post a howto for Inkscape and/or Xara for those of you interested in making your own cartoon caricatures.
Songbirdnest.com | Songbird Media Player
Songbird™ is a desktop Web player, a digital jukebox and Web browser mash-up. Like Winamp, it supports extensions and skins feathers. Like Firefox®, it is built from Mozilla®, cross-platform and open source.
A new upcoming media player to keep an eye on. I’ll post here again when I notice in the Ubuntu repositories.
Treehugger: 68 and 100 LED Waterproof Flashlights Introduced
Fresh from China, comes this ruggedized, waterproof flashlight. It has 68 LEDs that are powered by four AAA batteries. If you need even more LEDs, they have a 100 LED version available. The light is obviously bright, but one reviewer says it’s not as focused or as bright as Luxeon type flashlights with reflectors. The price is hard to beat though: $12.99.
Treehugger found this cool LED flashlight.
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II Camera Lens
I got my Amazon comission and it was just about enough to pay for this lens 
I’ll be sure to post a review and link to some pics when I get it.
Undead Santa Snow Globe – a photoset on Flickr
I won first place in the 2006 Rackspace Costume Contest