Haha!!
On 12/9/09, at approx. 5:41 p.m., the complainant was working in her office in the 2300 block of S. Massachusetts St., when she heard a window breaking in the room next to her office. The complainant called 911. Officers arrived and found the suspect stuck in a window on the north side of the building. The suspect had dropped his belongings inside the window but could not get further inside or back out of the window.
After waiting for Netflix to add this feature to their site for too long, I stumbled upon this greasemonkey script for FF. With a queue of over 200 movies, I sometimes forget why I put a movie in the queue. So now I can write myself a note “Talked to so-so about post war Europe and the said I should see this movie”.. Who am I kidding? It’s probably going to be more like “Someone said this was a great Zombie film!”
There are disadvantages, the notes are kept in the browsers profile. So no sharing notes on the work computer with the home computer. I only hope that NetFlix adds this feature one day.
mikemo » Netflix Notes: Add a “note to self” next to movies in your queue.
Good article about how history repeats itself.
Ya know if Robin and I were married today, this just might have been something I would try. Just last night Robin was boasting how many more friends on Facebook she has than me!
Groom updates Twitter, Facebook at the altar | Technically Incorrect – CNET News.
A team of engineers in Alabama unveils an invention that reimagines the way magnets work, and that could change the way we do everything from closing the fridge to building frictionless gears.
via Programmable Magnets – Correlated Magnetics Research Invention – Popular Mechanics.
Before Twitter there was Western Union
I was scanning some more family photos and documents, and came across this Western Union “Storkgram”. For you young folks, a telegram was the Twitter of it’s day. I can not help but see how the technology has changed in my lifetime. This telegram was sent to my Grandfather from my father when I was born. Besides my father having to pay per word on this bit of communication that took hours to be delivered, I’m sure that Western Union was able to charge him an extra few cents to use the “Storkgram” paper instead of the standard message.
While we are at it, 50 years from now are people going to find printed Facebook and Twitter pages about their birth announcements? I just realized too that this is my father tweeting in 1958!
Twitter is now worth millions of dollars yet we do not pay for it as consumers. Think about this for a moment, how does Twitter make money?
Apple Researching Methods for Pushing User Interfaces to Accessories from Media Devices – Mac Rumors.
So imagine your multi function remote has a touch screen, like everything else does these days. Instead of the logitech approach where the remote has to figure out how to communicate with the device and translate all the functions to the 120 buttons on the remote. the device your controlling send the information it needs. So your new universal remote will act and feel just like the remote that came with your media device. Or as in the cast of an iPod or iPhone and a GUI that matches the original device.
Nov 16
Was scanning some old photos at moms last night. Here is one of me and my neighborhood buddy Ken. I think this was taken in 1968. Not sure about the date.
Thanks to a reader (see comments) they were able to date the photo to 1964, the only year Miss Exide had a blue cowling. That put me at 6 years old in the photo. Now if someone could only tell me what ever happened to Ken.
Oh I hope this is not for real. If this is true we have to stop this!
ROME Reuters – An Italian inventor has combined faith and ingenuity to come up with a way to keep church traditions alive for the faithful without the fear of contracting swine flu — an electronic holy water dispenser.
