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The first resolution I will make for the New Year is this: For each game I play, I will make at least one post.  As I try to look back at the last year of games, I'm finding myself at a loss regarding what all I played.  It's easy to remember this fall's insane glut of games, but that aside it's difficult to look back at what I've played and be sure I'm not leaving anything worthy out.

We'll see how long I last with this resolution....

It sounds hot, but it's a pretty good read: Photography and the Tolerance for Courageous Sucking.

Anyone who does anything - anything - creative, and struggles with it should read this.

I've discovered a new form of crack that is highly addictive to nerds and people with an obsessive compulsive streak.  This drug, this horrible drug, is called MediaMan.

MediaMan is a media library cataloging application.  Meaning, you use it to track all your movies, books, cds, games, etc.  You can import your media through a number of methods. One title at a time, through a CSV file, or you can scan barcodes with your webcam or a barcode scanner.  I haven't been lucky enough to try the last two, but the first two have been pretty good for the most part.  The app searches Amazon for its info - you can even have it search Amazon Japan, though my success with that has been rather spotty.

Some other neat features:

• You can tag your library items with as many tags as you can come with
• You can import your own cover art
• You can export to PNG or to a very fancy HTML format - check my library out.
• You can do live searches within your collection (meaning, it searches your database as you type)

It's not without it's flaws.  It would be nice if I could display one tag set minus another tag set; say, all my anime DVDs that are only tagged as "anime" but not with a genre or any other info.  The piechart display could be more robust.  I wish Amazon searches would show more than 5 selections from each category.  With all that though, I will still say I've been discovering new features daily and I'm really liking it.  I'm definitely going to be plunking $40 on it this month.

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