December 2007
NPR – NPR: 11-25-2007 Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! →
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November 2007
Watching winnie the pooh capture maddies attention for the first time. She’s oh so quiet!!
looking forward to seeing his old friend Jeffrey who’s driving all the way from Indiana tonite.
Google Gadgets for Your Dashboard [Featured Mac... →
Mac OS X only: The entirety of Google Gadgets is now available for Mac users as Dashboard widgets through Google Desktop for Mac. Altogether this isn’t groundbreaking, since you could use the new web clips feature in Leopard or the Widgetops Universal Google Gadget widget to add any Google Gadget to your Dashboard, but it’s a nice integration nonetheless. If you’re a Google...
The gipper →
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waking up groggy so many dramatic dreams.
Google My Location - Not Available On iPhone….Yet →
This week, Google released a new version of Maps including a new beta feature — My Location. My Location uses the same technology as Navizon’s GPS free positioning system. Using cell phone towers to locate your position provides your general location within 1000m. The application pinpoints your location, and puts a blue transparent circle around the location to show that you could be anywhere...
EMI To Cut Funding To RIAA And Other Trade Groups?... →
Ever wonder why the big labels waste money funding trade groups like the RIAA? EMI, the British record company that was recently taken over by a private equity firm does, and a unnamed source tells Reuters that the new investors are thinking of cutting funding to the RIAA and other, similar trade groups.
The groups, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), the Recording...
10 Secrets Of Primary Care Physicians [Health... →
The latest SmartMoney list of insider secrets and unpleasant truths is just as bleak as every other news item about health care these days, starting with the fact that a primary care doctor—”someone to coordinate your health care, help choose your specialists and be the first to diagnose just about any problem”—is getting harder to find, and fewer med students are showing any interest...
monthly visit with our fostercare/adoption case worker done.
Looking forward to a busy holiday season.
70+ Excel Tips and Shortcuts to help you make... →
Are you working with Excel and want take your Excel skills to the next level? Or do you want to learn Excel and don’t know where to start? Check out these 70+ tips and shortcuts that will help you make Excel Magic.
WWLD? No. 3: Organizing your environment →
Our great friend, Leslie Harpold, passed away in December of last year. In addition to being a swell pal and an old-school web mandarin, Leslie was an endless source of advice and opinion on practically everything.
To commemorate Leslie’s life and to help share her wisdom with folks who never got to know her, I asked our mutual friend, Lance Arthur to answer the question: What Would Leslie Do?...
WWLD? No. 3: Organizing your environment →
Our great friend, Leslie Harpold, passed away in December of last year. In addition to being a swell pal and an old-school web mandarin, Leslie was an endless source of advice and opinion on practically everything.
To commemorate Leslie’s life and to help share her wisdom with folks who never got to know her, I asked our mutual friend, Lance Arthur to answer the question: What Would Leslie Do?...
Well done! 'Over 1 Billion trees planted in 2007'... →
Ethiopia and Mexico lead in the drive to combat climate change, a UN report said Wednesday. Although the figure could not be verified, it sends a powerful message ahead of the December 3-14 meeting in Bali.
Ready to give maddie her bath. Drinking a glass of water is quite a struggle for her.
spending quality time with my mandolin.
"Free Money" Computer Glitch Leads To Kmart Melee... →
A computer glitch at Kmart leads to everyone being granted store credit cards - and a large-scale brawl erupting.. Two women started scrapping and then several men got involved. A Kmart worker was punched in the nose and smashed through a glass display case. Customers were calling up friends and telling them to come down to get the “free money,” $850 to $4000 in credit After...
Quick Look Folder and Zip plugins →
Filed under: OS, Freeware, Leopard
Quick Look is a beautiful thing, and in my view practically itself worth the cost of admission to Leopard. Unfortunately, the more you get used to it, the more annoying it is when you get to a file format that Quick Look doesn’t support. Fortunately, Apple was smart enough to design Quick Look with an open architecture that allows developers to write their...
50 Great Places To Raise A Family [Real Estate] →
You know how these personal finance posts we’re always publishing tell you to find a place where you can actually afford to live? But how people respond that it’s not that easy to find affordable, decent towns? Well, here you go: 50 not-too-shabby places around the country, presented in a clicky slide show and illustrated with satellite images for that Google Maps/Homeland Security...
Sometimes you just have to say.... ... →
In another step towards resistance, Nine Inch Nails again pushes the -screw legalities- idea and puts up their awesome remix site. Check it out! There is some pretty neat stuff!
just now grasping that it’s gonna be rob’s 40th birthday in a week and a half!
delicious library →
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First potentially useful iApp-a-Day: Level →
One of the biggest things many users with jailbroken phones have to explain to other folks is which third party applications are useful. Yeah Pirate is cool, and Navizon makes the lack of GPS slightly more bearable, but what really takes the iPhone beyond what Apple has provided in a useful way? To me, a little over a week ago, the answer came in the form of a downloadable app called Level that...
Apple acknowledges some MacBook hard drive... →
Apple is investigating whether or not faulty Seagate hard drives are to blame for data loss on some MacBooks.Retrodata, a U.K. data recovery firm, reported earlier this year that certain 2.5-inch Seagate drives used in MacBooks had a manufacturing flaw that causes the drive heads to scratch
GooSync synchronises iPhone & Google Calendar →
We’re yet to see full Exchange support for the iPhone - remember, that means calendar and contacts synchronisation as well as push-email - but if your schedule is managed by Google’s online Calendar service then you’re finally in luck. GooSync, whose eponymous product keeps your cellphone and calendar wirelessly synchronised, have seemingly released their iPhone client early (it’s down as being...
watching it’s always sunny in philadelphia. that’s some twisted sh#t.
AppleTell: Top 15 Leopard Hints →
Five excellent tips from AppleTell’s Top 15 Leopard Hints:
1. Enable the Path Bar in the Finder
Go to the view menu in the Finder and click View Path Bar to see the hierarchy of where your file is. You can also control-click or right-click on any of the folders in the path bar, and perform actions […]
CNet rates Vista one of "worst products in... →
CNet has named what they claim are the worst technology products in history. Probably the most controversial is the inclusion of Windows Vista which sits alongside the Sinclair C5, the Gizmondo and the Tamagotchi.
A Beginner’s Guide: How to Rent Your Ideas to... →
I first met Stephen Key in 2001. Two months later, I used a few recommendations of his — shared over the customary gin tonic — to help a friend double overseas sales in less than two weeks in New Zealand and Australia.
How? Licensing. It can be a beautifully elegant model.
Stephen is somewhat famous in inventing circles for two reasons. First, he consistently earns millions of dollars...
Congress, courts ask Bush: What are you hiding... →
Under grilling from lawmakers and attack by lawsuits alleging Bush authorized the illegal wiretapping of Americans, the White House has invoked a legal defense known as the “state secrets” doctrine — a claim that the president has inherent and unchecked power to shield national security information from disclosure, either to plaintiffs in court or
120 War Vets Commit Suicide Each Week on Average →
The military refuses to come clean, insisting the high rates are due to “personal problems,” not experience in combat.
11 Reasons Why Students Drop Out of College →
What do you think are the reasons why high school students make it — but stop there?
CEO of Wells Fargo "Housing in Worst Shape Since... →
Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf said the current real estate conditions are the worst he has experienced during his 30-year career. He then punctuated his gloomy assessment by harking back to the deepest downturn of the 20th century. “We have not seen a nationwide decline in housing like this since the Great Depression,” he said.
stuffed and sleepy. rob did a pot roast in the crock pot and made a chocolate cake. *burp*
10 Cyber Monday Deals Worth Checking Out →
Gizmodo gives a rundown of the 10 best cyber Monday deals. They’re awesome.
The top 10 IT disasters of all time... The WWIII... →
From faulty satellites nearly causing World War III to the Millennium Bug, poorly executed IT has had a lot to answer for over the years.
Obsessive-Compulsive’s Guide: Top 12 Organizing... →
Is your life in disarray? Do you have trouble finding things? Do you constantly forget stuff? If so, don’t worry — you’re like most of the human population.
John McCain's Awful Response to a Cop Who Wants to... →
When the curtain is pulled back, perfect cluelessness is revealed to be the single unifying principle that binds the drug war philosophy together. That is why McCain nearly falls to pieces when confronted by someone with real firsthand experience waging the war he so clumsily defends.
Eight Ways to Fight Memory Loss →
“Memory loss can occur for a variety of reasons. Some loss of memory with aging is natural – it is normal to experience short-term forgetfulness, such as the inability to remember a person’s name you met recently. Memory loss that is not a normal part of aging is called dementia. The most common form is Alzheimer’s disease…”
8 Things You Don’t Really Have to Do →
I wonder if #4 is really true…..
Voters Speak: No More State Income Tax and... →
Massachusetts residents passed the first step to “…decriminalizing marijuana, banning greyhound racing, repealing the state income tax, and stripping out major portions of a major state development law appear to have cleared a major hurdle….the Legislature has until the first Wednesday in May to make the proposals law.” Fight on True Patriots!
Maddie in the fall. →
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spending quality time with my mandolin and an irish coffee
waking up to the first day of sub freezing temps. ski slopes here we come…..
Playing in the orange and red leaves with the kid and dog.
female mandolin orchestra →
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waiting for supper. having a glass of merlot and loving the fall into winter thing happening before my eyes.
At work. Someone made pumpkin bars!!!!
