Straight outta Eagan Minnesota

According to Wikipedia, Northwest Airlines changed its logo in April of 2003... it took until now for me to notice the change... or the connection.

MSN Search as a dictionary

While at the 2nd annual MSN Butterfly Tour the topic came up of using search to look up the definition of words.  I mentioned to the testers that it can be done by…

Hey, those are sweet!

  So, I was thinking... If I were cheap enough to steal the swanky hotel hangers, I would probably consider it a reasonable investment to buy a thinner closet rod so I…

Yes, we have no bananas,

I appreciate the enthusiasm folks have for becoming part of the mail beta, but I don't, unfortunately, have any invites to give out at this time.  When I do have some invites…

It’s the little things in life…

On the way back in from taking the dog out I was bending over Nala trying to get her to sit and Paula looked up at our dove family and found them…

Times they are a-changin’

I'm getting close to finishing my hard drive upgrade for my desktop at home (ran out of space for ripping CDs) and the amount of storage I now have made me start…

Ah, a trip down memory lane

Last night I pulled up some of the Internet humor files I used to have on my site and moved them into a directory on this site.  In the process I came…

Out of the closet

By Internet time-scale this is very old news: the Hotmail team is working on a new product, some people have already gotten a glimpse via the mail beta.  "Mail beta," you say,…

I kan’t spel

I rely on the red squigglies in word.  What happens when I author blog posts?  How about typing in gripes to web forms on web shopping sites? The answer: I use IE…

More music

Put simply: Mercedes Benz Mixed Tape 8 is out.  Get your fix of free Euro-pop and Jazz. Too tired to blog.  Me: TV.  You: Download.

Hey, I can see my house from here!

On Sunday most people got their first glimpse of MSN Virtual Earth (well, the PR started Sunday at any rate) and frankly... it’s pretty damn cool.  Imagine the useful features of Google…

Eye scream, you scream…

From high school biology I remember that blue eyes is recessive and brown eyes is dominant.  I have blue eyes… so I have two recessive blue eye genes… should I have children,…

W.W.J.A.F.D.?

When I was a kid... aw heck, I'm still a kid. Let me start again, when I was 9 my G.I. Joes used to "hang out" with my sister's Barbie dolls (hey,…

Technology that works

My DirecTV TiVo died a month or two ago so I went out and bought a new one (well… it was a shelf model but works great).  The old unit I just…