Top Internet websites
According to Alexa, the top 50 sites on the web as of today are: 1 google.com 2 facebook.com 3 youtube.com 4 yahoo.com 5 live.com 6 wikipedia.org 7 baidu.com 8 blogger.com 9 msn.com 10 qq.com 11 twitter.com 12 yahoo.co.jp 13 google.co.in 14 taobao.com 15 google.de 16 google.com.hk 17 wordpress.com 18 sina.com.cn 19 amazon.com 20 google.co.uk 21 [...]
Thermostats: single stage vs two stage
I bought the wrong thermostat. I discovered this today, two months after installing it, when we went to run the air conditioning and it was blowing out heated air. Which is not ideal when it’s 84 out. So today is when I learned the difference between single stage and two stage thermostats. My immediate concern [...]
Google Voice transcript
Google Voice voicemail transcription seems to have some trouble with the English accent. Hello Brian, This is closest from us, so I was just a little for 12. I’ll send you an invite for a meeting we say. Indian food and she’s been the my judo tonight with yeah i’m my jury’s stand that she [...]
Skype gripe
I love Skype. I use it as my primary inbound and outbound voice line for my virtual office. My wife and I video Skype with family & friends on a daily or semi-daily basis. For me it’s reliable, the voice and picture quality is good, and it has all the features I need without being [...]
The future
With a little luck, I’ll be this cool when I’m all old and stuff: Elderly Couple Rocks The Piano – watch more funny videos
New house, day 1
Everything’s here. The garage is full, there are boxes everywhere, but: The baby’s room is all set up, including crib, change table, white noise generator, and baby monitors Kitchen is usable. Spices are unpacked, pots & pans are accessible. Wine is accessible. Our bed is set up and made. We can sleep. We have access [...]
12 hours
In 12 short hours, if all goes well, we shall be homeowners once more.
Epcot
One of my Epcot receipts from a few weeks back. My body is a temple.
Interacting with the computer
How much time do you spend every day walking your PC through the steps necessary to turn your intentions into actions? Let me give you an example. I want to copy a file from my PC to a remote UNIX server. I know where the file is on my PC and the server name & [...]
New kids
This is a draft I wrote on June 18, 2009, that I never got around to finishing and publishing. I’m an uncle again! My brother’s family added a beautiful baby girl, Blythe Emerson, Wednesday afternoon. By 6pm she had already been on TV! This is the third child for hermano and his wife. They’re old [...]