I received an e-mail at work yesterday that I thought was pretty odd since it was sent out to everyone. I’ve talked with some of you about a Power Point presentation on the web that I heard about during the “PR Boot Camp” ILA conference session led by Ben Hildebrandt last week. The slides chronicle… Read more »
Yearly Archives: 2004
Another Toilet Seat
Remember my previous toilet seat post… Well, check this baby out! This one blows “The Johnny Glow” out of the (toilet) water. It has LED lights and turns on and off when you open and close the lid. I know I sure sleep better at night knowing that there are hard working men and women… Read more »
Moblog Photos
I’ve been tweaking the site a little bit recently. You may have noticed in the right column there is now a “Latest Mobile Photo” area. This area will always display the most recent photo from my camera phone. You can also see all the past photos I’ve taken with my phone. They’re in the photos… Read more »
Google Releases Beta Desktop Search
Yes, I know I’ve been writing a lot about Google lately… but they just keep releasing cool things! Today the released a new piece of software that lets you use their incredible search engine to search certain files on your computer. Once you download and install this little app, a “desktop” tab is added to… Read more »
New Video Game Based Series From Makers of Red Vs. Blue
The folks at Rooster Teeth Productions who are the makers of the famous Red Vs. Blue video series (which is built with the game Halo) have come up with a new video series based on the game, The Sims 2 called “The Strangerhood.” They’ve got a trailer online. If this is anything like previous Red… Read more »
Google SMS
Google just released a new SMS service. If you send an SMS (text message) from your cell phone to the number 46645 (GOOGL) with a certain syntax, the super smart Google robot will send you a text message back with your results. Yesterday, I tried one of the examples from Google: pizza 52242 (the zip… Read more »
Gmail Drive
For those of you that have a Gmail account, this little utility is a nice addition. It allows you to use your 1Gb for actual storage. It puts a little drive icon into Windows and transfers files pretty quickly from your local machine to your Gmail storage(I haven’t tried any large files yet). I suppose… Read more »
No More 5 second Rule
A scientist (a high school scientist) from Chicago has recently won the IG Nobel Prize for work done with the 5 second rule. The rule went that if you dropped a piece of food on the floor, it was safe to eat if you got to it within 5 seconds of it hitting the ground…. Read more »
SpaceShipOne Wins X Prize!
SpaceShipOne launched for their 2nd flight in the required 2 week window and hit the required altitude of just over just over 62 miles to win the $10 million X Prize this morning. More information: Ansari X Prize CNN News ABC News
Another Chapter in the Shrek’s Cereal Saga
I was out buying groceries tonight and decided I needed some yummy Shrek’s cereal, and what did I happen to find on the side of the box? They have added a marshmallow, or rather “mallowbits” key giving the names for all of the different shaped marshmallows err… mallowbits. I’d like to think that maybe we… Read more »
I’m a Godfather!
No, not the Francis Ford Coppola type (though that would be cool!). Ryal and Theresa had their baby last Tuesday (Sept. 28th) – Layton Patrick Brier.
SpaceShipOne Almost to the X Prize!
On Wednesday, SpaceShipOne completed its first of two required flights to win the $10 million X Prize. The X Prize was set up to jump start the space tourism industry and provided a handsome sum to whoever can create a spacecraft that can: Privately finances, builds & launches a spaceship, able to carry 3 people… Read more »
New iMac G5 Live In Person
On Friday I was able to see (and touch) one of the new iMac G5 all-in-one computers in person. The Campus rep had one in the computer demo area. I have to say that the pictures don’t do it justice. Just like its predecessor iMac (iLamp) you really don’t get a feel for it until… Read more »
Toilet Technology
For all of you guys out there (ladies you can tune this post out unless you use one of these) that have issues hitting the bowl at night. There’s now a brilliat new device to help you out… The Jonny Glow! This dazzlling pice of technology is apparently a ring of (obviously waterproof) glow tape… Read more »
The iPatch
Arrrrrrrr! If only I had seen this in time for my International Talk Like A Pirate Day festivities! Oh well, I guess there is always next year… Arrrrrr!
