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Katie and Sami read us ghost stories by firelight on the beach tonight.

Sitting here in a coffee shop in Cannon Beach, OR with free wifi. There is 1 iBook, 3 MacBook Pros and 2 iPhones other than mine! This is nice to be among my own kind. The caffeine driven techno elite.

Oh yeah, there is a Dell, and I had to help them connect to the AP

As you can tell from the photo stream - we are vacationing in Seaside, OR. Right now it’s Robin and I with my mother. We awaiting the arrival of my sister an her family. Watch the photo stream to follow our adventures.

I so hope this makes it on the air, or at least youtube.

Virgin tycoon Sir Richard Branson hurled a glass of water of a TV presenter after he was banned from talking about his new airline, according to reports.
FOXNews.com - Stephen Colbert’s Water Fight With Richard Branson to Air on ‘Colbert Report’ - Celebrity Gossip | Entertainment News | Arts And Entertainment

This is not only self-explanatory, it’s also brilliant! Takes the low voltage from audio headphones (2 volts) on the plane, pump into a capacitor until there is enough to dump into your iPod (which need 5 volts) and keep you ipod going for the whole flight.
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Last Saturday my sisters family lost their cat Mocha to old age. This hit their youngest Sami pretty hard. They are going to her getting a Pixie-Bob kitten Labor Day weekend. The name of the new family member is still under debate, the breeder has named her “little Girl” - pictured above. The Pixie-Bob is a very interesting breed that started here in the PNW. It’s known for having more of a dog manner about it. They are even known to play fetch and play in water. Oh yeah, and it has six toes

Well you still have to initiate a phone call for the audio, and the thing does no fold flat.. and you need to hack you phone, still it’s pretty damn cool.

Code And Mirrors: Videoconferencing on the iPhone Now Working, Wins Iron Coder’s First Prize - Gizmodo

Ooooo this is cool. Skype on your iPhone — and no hacks? I’ll test and let you know how it goes.

GigaOM Skype on iPhone. No, seriously. «

I have been catching up on some my news and just found out that OS X leopard quietly received it Unix 03 recertification back in may. Big news in the geek / unix / OSX world. Might be too late for my office as they are contemplating giving OS X the boot from the company network

MacNN | Mac OS X Leopard receives Unix certification

So now that I mentioned my fear of the Printer of Death and how every page print shaves a moment off my life– look what someone printed. LOL