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Oh nothing, it’s just CSS Naked day.

I took the new laptop to Starbucks this weekend to do a bit of homework, and much to my surprise I was able to get on the intaratron for free as I’m an existing T-Mobile customer. Apparently they have a limited time offer for existing T-Mobile customers to get free Wi-Fi at any T-Mobile Hot Spot during the weekend. Cool stuff, though I’d rather just go to an indie coffeeshop and get it for free anytime.

Basically all that you have to do is fire-up your browser at a Hot Spot Location, find the “free weekend” link (though it’s kind of buried), enter in your phone number in the form, and they will text you back a code to use which is good for a month. You can read more about the process here.

Major Hotspots seem to include Starbucks, Borders, Kinko’s, and various areas in major airports, though it’s probably best to use the Hot Spot locator to find it near you.

Admittedly I don’t find myself debugging CSS all that often but CSSViewer is one of the coolest Firefox extensions I’ve seen in awhile– check it out!

I’m always on the search for a good Windows mp3 player which manages large collections as I currently have over 22,000 songs (which apparently is over 96 days of music), and I’ve finally found a player which I’ve switched to; musikCube. It’s not quite as polished as Winamp, but it’s the first program which has been able to index my whole collection without crashing which is an impressive feat in itself. It uses a real embedded database, sqlite, to handle the data storage and seems to be able to track and update large collections with ease.

Through it’s plug-in architecture it also supports iTunes style ratings, and in general I must say the interface reminds me a lot of iTunes. Admittedly there are some wonky interface things about it that I normally wouldn’t tolerate, but I’m okay with them being that it is able to manage my whole collection and doesn’t take too long to index, search, etc. I also think the Playlist exporter could stand some improvement as far as the HTML export works; luckily it’s open source so I might have to dig into it sometime.