Archive for May, 2006

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Metro Transit Google Personal Homepage Gagdet

Friday, May 26th, 2006

If you ride the King County Metro at all you probably ride from the same stops a majority of the time. What is nice about our local bus system is that they provide up to the minute data on all of the buses in the system. This can tell you if your bus is coming [...]

Plus Confusion

In their infinite wisdom, the IE team thinks it’s a good idea to differentiate the versions of IE7 for XP and for Vista. It is a valid concern to have; especially for support calls. But, since they run on different operating systems, they needed yet another modifier in a product name, because saying you run [...]

Don’t Click It

Thursday, May 25th, 2006

What ever you do… don’t click it.

Schools and the Internet

Recently, for some reason or another, schools, parents, and the media have found out about teenagers habits on line and are beginning to use their postings as leverage against them (see this MSNBC article: “District to monitor students’ MySpace pages”). Mainly, these issues revolve around one site, Myspace.com. This shouldn’t come as any surprise to [...]

No Vendor Week at Microsoft

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006

From the Seattle Times:
More than 1,000 temporary Microsoft workers are taking a seven-day unpaid leave in a move meant to keep the company on budget as it nears the end of its fiscal year.
And I got an exemption to be here this week. At least the weather is bad.

Amazon Wishlist 0.6 Released

Saturday, May 20th, 2006

Many months since the last update, I have a new update to my Amazon Wishlist Plugin for WordPress. I must admit that this update was not made by myself, but my Chris Benard. This is a pretty minor change, but it will now make your wishlist page validate! So, there aren’t any “feature” updates to [...]

Adventures in Deep Frying

Thursday, May 18th, 2006

Two days ago Kony got a deep fryer. It is something that came up on slickdeals.net and we figured that it was small enough and we’d enjoy it once it arrived. So, a couple of weeks after he purchased it we had it in our kitchen. Last night was the first time we were able [...]

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