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Posted in Personal on Apr 23rd, 2007
I always hang on as long as I can to avoid using an airplane’s bathroom, but today nature won and I made the long, awkward trip to the back of the plane. Now, admittedly, I am not the smallest human on the planet, but there was barely room to get the door shut. [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Health on Apr 23rd, 2007
I’ve always been a fan of Sheryl Crow’s music, but I had to read this article twice to make sure it wasn’t some kind of joke. She is coming out with a detachable “dining sleeve” for wiping your mouth to help reduce the amount of paper napkins used.
“The sleeve is detachable and can be [...]
Posted in Blogging on Apr 22nd, 2007
Although I don’t always post daily, I do make it a point to go through any of the things I read and tag them for my Google Shared Items blog. If you look over to the sidebar, you’ll see an area called Things I’m Reading. That shows you the 5 latest articles I’ve [...]
Posted in Blogging on Apr 14th, 2007
I just posted about how I finally got White A Milk handling Wordpress Widgets. Everything was fine. Two days later out comes iTheme and I had to check it out. Look at it, it’s beautiful. I tested it on Safari/OSX, Firefox/OSX, and IE7/WindowsXP and everything looked correct, so I’ll see how [...]
Is anyone really surprised that Apple has pushed back the release date of OS X Leopard to October? Rumor sites have been saying for a while that the releases they have received were still pretty buggy and that they expected Apple to miss the “end of Spring” release date that Steve Jobs announced. [...]
Posted in Blogging on Apr 11th, 2007
I have always been a fan of the minimal White As Milk Wordpress theme, but I also wanted the ability to have sidebar widgets. I finally got around to figuring out how to have my cake and eat it to, so I modified the White As Milk them with only 7 lines of code from [...]
Posted in Entertainment on Apr 7th, 2007
I put in the time. I watched the entire thing. I’m just missing the whole time travel thing. They were always two years apart, so how in the world did they end up in the same time? I realize that by him not getting hit by the bus the future would change, but they should [...]
I took the day off and we headed off to Phipps Conservatory to check out the flowers. I was looking for a reason to take a bunch of pictures, and these came out way better than I expected since all I did was a one-handed point and shoot with my little 4 Meg Canon.
You [...]
Posted in Apple, Entertainment on Apr 2nd, 2007
Back on February 7th, I asked “Would you pay more for DRM-free music?” Looks like I finally got one right as EMI announced they would be selling DRM-free music on iTunes for a premium price. Full albums will remain the same price, so they are clearly trying to get us to purchase more [...]
Our 3 month long team Biggest Loser In The Neighborhood contest just came to an end. This year put a team of women against men, with the prize not only being bragging rights, but a 3 day getaway for the winners anywhere they choose. Now that’s a serious prize.
In the end the women [...]