It’s that time again… time to post photos of a totally geeky project. I know you’re excited, aren’t you?

This idea kind of came from Unclutter.com. They used the same thing to organize computer cables and called it a card cable organizer.

Ahh… my phone and headset are charging together… How sweet.

Oh look, look… the cords aren’t getting lost on the floor under a pile of um… stuff.

Yeh… that stuff. It isn’t pretty.

There you have it my geeky friends. With some tape, a hole punch, scissors, and a plastic card, you too can be the proud owner of a delightfuly geeky charging station.

My (World’s Tiniest) flash drive case broke after repeated abuse and an adventure in the washing machine. Scotch tape and superglue kept it alive for a year but it needed replaced. I’m too cheap to buy a new one… so I made a new case following these instructions.

That’s a photo of my finished product on the left. Worried that it would get accidentally thrown away if I left it like the instructions suggested, I turned it into a geeky key chain…

And this friends, is the first post in over one year that qualifies for the Tech Tangents category.

What are you doing?
Answer that question and keep up with your friends on twitter.com. It’s kind of like a blog with a 140 character limit per post… Or is it a group text message solution… or is it for IM? I’m not really sure. But that’s where I’m throwing my random life updates that don’t really warrant a gentlewhisper.com post. Join me. I’d love to know what you’re doing. You can update it on the website, with your cell phone, IM, a Wordpress plugin, and from your google homepage.
twitter.com/gentlewhisper

Notes by phone:
Anthony suggested a cool site. Jott.com lets you call and leave a voice mail then transcribes the message and emails it to whoever you want. So very cool.

Phone Reminders:
Schedule text messages with ohdontforget.com

Check your Gmail:
Download a little program to your phone then use Gmail anywhere…
Mobile Gmail

A very cool video about Web 2.0:
Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us

Last week, I sadly stared at my computer screen… wishing that Google Maps would let me get directions with multiple destinations…

Today I read this post at Lifehacker and found that my dreams have come true.

Need to know the best way to get from Texas to South Carolina with a stop over in Springfield, Mo?
[Ok probably not.]

Go to Google Maps.
Click on Get Directions.
Add your starting place and the next destination.
Click on Get Directions Button.
Below your directions click on the new “Add Destination…” link.
Type in your next destination
Click the Add Destination button.

Keep doing this until you’re a happy, happy traveler.

Oh and if you enter the destinations in the wrong order, you can drag them into the right place.
[On the directions list... not the map.]

P.S.
If you know of a better way for me to get there… adjust this map and give us a link in the comments.

Shouldn’t there be a search feature in Google Reader? I mean… it’s Google.

I want to be able to search through all of my subscriptions. I should be able to do this… shouldn’t I? Bloglines does it… good grief, they even let you subscribe to a search… effectively creating a filter for all of your feeds.

I may have to switch back… nah I’ll just subscribe to the Bloglines searches with Google Reader.

(Note: If you don’t use Wordpress, you probably don’t need to read this post. It is only here for those searching for a solution to a specific problem.)

After upgrading to Wordpress 2.0.4, I noticed a nasty error on the categories pages. It looked something like this: