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“Please do not be cynical. I hate cynicism, for the record, it’s my least favorite quality, it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen. I’m telling you, amazing things will happen. I’m telling you, it’s just true.” — Conan O’Brien

That is probably the best advice I’ve heard from anyone. Conan O’Brien’s farewell speech from the Tonight show is here.

I don’t play games. I just don’t. I’m not sure if I’m not smart enough to manipulate people that way, or I just don’t care for it. Probably both. So when I get played, I usually don’t figure it out until after I’ve been played.

I just figured out that I’m being played by someone close to me. The interesting thing is, I am not angry about it. I feel relief in knowing there is a game in the first place.

And more importantly, I feel relief in knowing that I can choose not to play, and by doing that I will piss the other person off immensely.

OK, I found this out when I updated to the Mac 10.6 Snow Leopard OS. It changed all my text documents to open up with Apple’s TextEdit instead of my usual BareBones TextWrangler program. The fix is simple, but it is listed nowhere that I could find.

Go to one of your documents and Right click (or CTL Click) to get the menu that pops up to the side. Choose to “Get Info” from the list. In the box, there is an “Open With” drop down box that will allow you to choose whatever program you want. Choose your program. Underneath that box, you’ll find a “Use this application to open all documents like this one.” Note that you’ll have to choose the program before you get the “Change all” button to show up.

When it does, click it and you’ll get a window that basically says “Are you sure you want to change all similar documents to open with the application “TextWrangler.app”? This change will apply to all documents with the extension “.txt”.

Click “continue” to make it happen.

This should work with all other programs as well.