April 15, 2008

Short Updates

Posted by Scott at 11:44 PM

Dropped Claire off & sunny commute in. Stopped en route for bagel at Carriage House Coffee. Temps supposed to skirt 60°F this afternoon. 9:21am

Today my commuter car is 2 year old. (related link) From an alternative perspective, the car loan is about half way paid down. 10:07am

Intrigued by (related link) . What an innovative way to use Twitter to collect traffic data from the Twitter community. 10:12am

Amused by this Apple IIgs hack/mod to fit it into a laptop. (related link) But then, I do have a soft spot for retro hacks. 10:38am

Did my periodic "close commenting on old entries" for our website. Anything older than a week is un-commentable. Comment spam defense. 11:24am

Had an Oriental Chicken Wrap at Tom's Deli in Northborough. Tasty and not ordinary. (related link) 2:01pm

Caught up on WGBH Classical Performances podcasts during the morning. Just didn't feel like listening to talk. (related link) 2:04pm

Sketch of a Super Mario game, all in just 14KB of the most obscure Javascript. (related link) Click mouse to start, then arrows 2:23pm

News Announcement: Wii Fit is going to be $90 when it's released here in the states in a month. Ouch! $90! (related link) 2:29pm

The Pope's plane, Shepherd One, has touched down at Andrews AFB. President and Mrs. Bush are meeting him on the tarmac. 3:58pm

The Pope has stepped out of the plane to a crowd of cheers. 4:05pm

Spent an hour or so filing and sorting through the backlog of email sitting in my office email Inbox. 4:22pm

Took Michelle out for an early 'date night' at Black Forest Cafe. We figure we're going to spend so much on Thursday, go now! 8:59pm

Thursday's expenses include delivery of four tons of wood pellets, and a new timing belt and water pump for the Honda Odyssey. Cha-ching! 9:02pm

Liking the pilot episode of CNET's new "Today in Tech History" video podcasts. (related link) I hope it's a successful series. 9:57pm

Playing w/tool called "YUI Compressor" (related link) which optimizes sizes of Javascript & CSS code (for faster page downloads) 10:19pm

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