Archive for May, 2006
Metro Transit Google Personal Homepage Gagdet
Friday, May 26th, 2006If 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 [...]
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- Posted by Ryan at 10:16 pm
- Filed Under: Plugins
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 [...]
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- Posted by Ryan at 2:09 pm
- Filed Under: Computing, Software
Don’t Click It
Thursday, May 25th, 2006What ever you do… don’t click it.
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- Posted by Ryan at 5:14 pm
- Filed Under: Asides
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 [...]
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- Posted by Ryan at 10:34 am
- Filed Under: In The News
No Vendor Week at Microsoft
Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006From 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.
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- Posted by Ryan at 10:04 am
- Filed Under: Work
Amazon Wishlist 0.6 Released
Saturday, May 20th, 2006Many 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 [...]
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- Posted by Ryan at 4:46 pm
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Adventures in Deep Frying
Thursday, May 18th, 2006Two 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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- Posted by Ryan at 10:27 am
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