Month: June 2007

Here’s a bunch of old PDFs from the old site that might interest someone somewhere:

USS Cofer – There was a WWII-era ship called the USS Cofer. She was  named after a cousin of mine from Louisville, Georgia. She fought at the Battle of Leyte Gulf and won numerous service awards. This short PDF has some basic infomation about her.

Notes From Boston – A moderately amusing travel memoir from a trip I took to Boston in the late 90s.

Notes From Chicago – A moderately amusing travel memoir from a trip I took to Chicago in the late 90s.

Mazzy Star – The complete lyrics (zipped).

Back in 2000, I stumbled across a killer free program called Madotate. This program was years ahead of its time, in that it replaced Microsoft’s 2-D windowing model with a 3-D one. Now, I don’t mean “3-D” in the sense of “coming out of the screen” like a 3-D movie. Instead, Madotate takes individual windows and allows you to turn them sideways or lay them flat, instead of the usual “open” or “minimized”. Check out the screen capture on the left for an example (click the picture to enlarge it); in the picture, the open windows are (from left to right): Firefox, Internet Explorer, Azureus, PeerGuardian (just above Azureus), the AIM “Away” screen (to the right of Azureus), Microsoft Outlook and a Windows Explorer window.

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Do you use AIM? I do, but one huge problem I’ve found with AIM is the way it handles its notification sounds – there’s no easy way to simply mute just the AIM sounds. As far as I can tell, your options are to mute all system sounds (so you’ll miss the “new mail” and other legitimate system sounds) or you can go to Control Panel > Sounds and remove the WAV associated with each AIM event; this will cause the PC speaker to beep, which makes this option useless.

A couple of years ago, I was watching a movie on my PC and for some reason the movie’s sound level was really low. Naturally, I turned up the sound on Windows Media Player and my PC speakers… so when my missus logged on to AIM and sent me a message THE AIM SOUND WAS THIS LOUD! It shattered the windows in my room, set off car alarms for blocks, made my ears bleed, etc., etc. So this is why I created SilentAIM – a tiny little “program” that instantly mutes the AIM sounds on your PC. It requires no executable file or Registry jiggery-pokery – in fact, all SilentAIM does is unpack some “blank” WAV files (with the extension .SIL) to your AIM\Sounds directory, along with a batch file that swaps the extensions of your existing WAV files and the silent WAVs when you click on the SilentAIM desktop icon! The AIM sounds can be “muted” or “un-muted” at any time while using AIM; your SilentAIM settings will remain in effect until you change them back. (You might need to reinstall SilentAIM after upgrading AIM itself though).

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jimcofer.com is now in the publishing business! OK, not really – but I am proud to offer one of the greatest works of the English language – G.K. Chesteron’s Orthodoxy – in eBook (PDF) format. Chesterton is one of the few Christian thinkers who is admired and quoted equally by liberal and conservative Christians, and even by many non-Christians. Orthodoxy remains one of the greatest works of any of the Christian apologetics, especially since it defends orthodoxy without resorting to endless quoting of the Scriptures or Church doctrine. You may download the file here. (NOTE: this is an unzipped PDF, approximately 480KB in size).

Your parents loved you, cared for you, fed and clothed you, took you to the doctor when you were sick, bought you a cake and presents on your birthdays, and sent you to school. But now you’re a big girl – off to college and away from parental supervision for the very first time. What better way to celebrate than by tarting yourself up and lip synching to Aqua’s “Barbie Girl”! This clip is *such* a train wreck – on one hand, you want to heap scorn and derision on this poor girl. On the other hand, you know she probably made it for her first college boyfriend, and now that they’ve broken up, he thought he’d get a laugh by posting it on the Internet. Oh well – no matter – it’s out there now! Download the file here. (NOTE: file is a 6.5MB zipped WMA).