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This week’s contest at b3ta is to add one word to a movie title. I needed a break and couldn’t resist (Turns out shortly after taking the Harry met Sally picture she bumped into him and he took a swing at her).
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Making trouble?
After complaining in jest about my wife I realized something…
…we have a really, really comfortable couch positioned nicely in front of our home theatre system… having to sleep on the couch for the night is not such a bad thing.
Now, if Paula ever figures out a good way to lock the refrigerator…
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It’s about time!
Well, we wondered if it would ever happen… but it did. Dick proposed to Trina. Congratulations you two! (Everybody else, check out the proposal story, it’ll make you teary :)).
I think the best thing is that in a show of Victorian geekiness they have maintained separate XBoxes… to share an XBox before being married just wouldn’t be appropriate, the neighbors would talk.
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I give up, you navigate!
Okay, so perhaps it’s a little weird that my toolbox is still littered with screws I pulled out of a radio-controlled car in Jr. High School, but hoarding old stuff isn’t always bad. I was looking through some pictures I took when I was in South Korea and I found a picture of a street cafe which I almost tossed right when I took it. I’m glad I got distracted and didn’t delete the picture, I’m now quite fond of the colors and feeling of movement.
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Along many of the busier streets in South Korea are little food stands which offer seating for 4 to 6 and have food within arm’s reach. During rush hour many corners are packed with these part time restaurants. They remind me of a grown-up lemonade stand with friendly proprietors chatting up the patrons in a neighborly fashion.
I flew back from Redmond tonight on Alaska Air flight 594 and you’ll never believe who was at the controls… Captain Kirk! He appears to have replaced his navigator, however… Chekhov was nowhere to be found.
Sure… jackhammers… add it to the list lady. (click for big)
Edit 10/7/2004: Snopes picked up the story.
For a while now I’ve been wanting to get more of my pictures on line to share with friends and family. Here are the sites I’ve dug up to date. Any suggestions or comments?
My requirements:
- A ton of space (unlimited would be nice, I have over 24 gigs of images)
- Ability to have a custom domain (e.g. http://images.little.org)
- Customizable look and feel
- Per gallery security
Nice to have: per image comments.
Some photo hosting sites:
- http://www.pbase.com/ (a few friends use this, looks nice)
- http://www.fotki.com/ (I’ve seen a few good reviews of this)
- http://www.snapfish.com/ (an old stand-by)
- http://www.smugmug.com/
- http://photobucket.com/
- http://www.imagemagician.com/
Some photo review sites (they tend to be geared to artists who want to get feedback, some only allow you to upload one image per day). Not quite what I need.
- http://www.photoforums.com/
- http://www.shuttercity.com/ [Gone, link broken]
- http://www.usefilm.com/
- http://www.webaperture.com/
- http://www.webphotoforum.com/
- http://www.TrekLens.com/
- http://www.Nfolio.com
- http://www.photo.net/
- http://www.photopoints.com/
With the release of the Star Wars DVDs last week everyone has the classic films on the brain. And what goes better with classic films than classic rock?
Mad props to the_man361… whoever you are.
Hotmail is a really big service – servers measured in the thousands, active users measured in the hundreds of millions, incoming mail measured in the billions. It’s not cheap to run (yeah, we’re Microsoft, cry you a river). To keep our costs down we don’t make it easy to e-mail a human directly to get technical support and as a result users get (understandably) frustrated.
Enter Reeves, fearless, rogue cowboy PM, roaming the uncharted wastelands of the net searching for Hotmail users in need. I spend tireless hours combing the dark corners of the net looking for…
OK, I don’t even believe myself. What I do is set up Google alerts to drop me an e-mail once daily when news reports mention Hotmail. My primary interest is to find out what reporters are saying about Hotmail but I occasionally find gripes mixed in with the news. Last week, for example, I came across a pro-wrestling reporter who had to re-write his weekly article because he was unable to get into his Hotmail account.
Since I’m not in support the only ways for me to be able to help people with Hotmail is to post info on my blog, free-lance by tracking down gripes on the web or (crazy thought here) to proactively design new features for Hotmail which make it easier to use <gasp>.
So, as always, if you have a gripe about Hotmail, e-mail me. I love to hear compliments about our product but hearing complaints is the next best thing. Coming up with brand new stuff is hard… fixing stuff we broke is easy, if we know it’s broke(n).
P.S. it appears Hotmail is becoming a regular topic in the industry news… I wonder if I’ll get a chance to meet The Rock.