Ever eaten cereal after you’ve just found ants crawling in it? Mmm… Kellogg’s Basic 4 (a cereal I’ve never even heard of until I opened the kitchen cupboard this morning)… now Kellogg’s Basic 5 with essential vile (oops, we meant “live”) black ants! Hey, it’s just like the picture on the box! Oh wait, that’s […]
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The dreadful Clear Form button
Pet Peeve #132: Web forms that have the “Clear form” button right next to the “Submit form” button. Pet Peeve #133: Web forms that have the “Clear form” button, period. Where possible, save yourself the grief of accidentally erasing all of your work by typing your thoughts out in a Notepad or TextEdit window, and […]
Google Toolbar
Wow, I’m really liking the Google Toolbar (http://toolbar.google.com). How did I never consider it before? It’s like always having a Google page up, ready to go. It’s packed with features like “Search Current Site”, “Search Images”, “Highlight/go to search terms”, and “Translate to English” functions — basically a little of everything that makes Google so awesome. Yeah, I […]
Contact Lens Dream
Here was my dream this morning: It’s my wedding day (uh….yeah). The bride (unspecified as to whom in the dream) has not arrived yet, so I’m waiting around in the chapel (?) in my tux. I check my face in the mirror, and suddenly I discover this bright, rounded patch of red creeping up my […]
Settlers of Catan
So, I got introduced to this game called Settlers of Catan during a after-work hangout about 3 years ago, and it didn’t seem all that interesting until maybe 2 weeks ago. Suddenly, I discover that EVERYONE plays it — coworkers, random strangers, trusted friends, great spiritual leaders… Something clicked in my head — “You know, I […]