For acoustic guitar, finger picking:

Room Size: 49
Pre-delay: 29
Reverberance: 66
Damping: 50
Tone Low: 50
Tone High: 85
Web Gain: 1
Dry Gain: -1
Stereo Width: 100

These settings are much more subdued and natural-sounding.

Roomsize: 50
Reverb Time: 1.5
Damping: 0.9
Input Bandwidth: 0.75
Dry Signal Level: 0
Early Reflection Level: -20.0
Tail level: -20

I've decided that for the 12 days until Christmas that I would post a new Christmas song each day. I have done 7 days so far (today is the 8th - I'll post again tonight).

Here are the songs that I have done thus far: http://www.nielsenhome.net/christmas2010

I have both an original version and a version after I added reverb (which helps a lot, especially for single-instrument renditions).

If you are using Audacity to edit songs, and want to add reverb, this guide is a must. The default settings really don't sound good at all. The "Nice Hall Effect" settings are my favorite.

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=GVerb

Here are my own "large hall" settings, which I prefer.

Roomsize: 200
Reverb time: 5
Damping: 0.1
Input Bandwidth: 0.75
Dry Signal Level: -1.5
Early Reflection Level: -10
Tail Level: -20

Lifehacker has a list of Essential Windows Downloads and they are pretty good.

You can download them in an all-in-one installer here: http://ninite.com/lifehacker

I'm tired of not remembering exactly what photography equipment I have, so I typed out a wiki page with links to my gear. Check out http://nielsenhome.net/drupal/node/61

I am incredibly sick of 100+ line build.xml files. For this reason, here is a short, simple build.xml that I (and others) can reference:

Here is a site that has some small barrels for aging ports or whiskeys at home: http://www.oakbarrelsltd.com

I was looking for a "cozy" warmer for my french press, and I found a bunch here: http://devotea.com

Pretty cool site, if you like "tea" stuff.