Global Rich List - How rich are you globally. Great site.

My close friends Jon and Paul are participating in the Jingle Bell Run/Walk for Arthritis. A good cause to run in really cold weather. If you can, please chip in to help them meet their goals.

Democrats gain 32 seats - Statistical predictions and analysis of the the upcoming mid-term elections.

Free Directory Assistance - I am all about screwing over Cingular, a fine example of ineptitude.

I use µTorrent as my bittorrent client and have been screwing around with its RSS downloader for a while to have it automatically download TV programs. Well I finally cracked that nut and thought it might help a few others to share. Here are the steps I used:

1. Grab your RSS feeds from TVRss.net, it does some auto-converting of Mininova feeds to point to torrent files that you’ll need. For example, here is my Daily Show Feed.
2. Once you have added all the feeds you want to µTorrent, then you need to set filters up on the Favorites tab. This is where I got hung up at. I tried to use a wildcard telling it to bring in everything. For some reason, that did not work. So, I have a filter for each feed and if, for example, the feed is the daily show, my filter is *aily*. I also selected a directory for it to save files to and nothing else is marked (other than the text box which has the name of the feed I am working on).

When you first add these it will pull in everything, go ahead and delete what you don’t want and it should act semi-normally after that. If you hit the ? mark on the Favorites tab, it will state the shows that last qualify under that filter. Mine read “Too Many” instead of “N/A” which I had been getting. Also you may need to close the program and restart after adding these to kickstart the process. Any questions, feel free to leave a comment.

Ethan Albright Strikes Back - The lowest rated player in Madden ‘07 writes dear John a letter. Via

25 Rules to Grow Rich By - Good rules of thumb for personal finance.

IE7 Released - Tabbed Browsing and RSS Support comes to Internet Explorer.

Best WoW/Michael Jackson Mashup you will see all day - as someone who likes the gaming culture but has no patience for games; I absolutely adore this.

Courage to Live Consciously - Excellent post from a site whose excellent subtitle is “Personal Development for Smart People”.