Archive for May, 2005
Bummer - I use this service quite often. Paypal is one of the great things that’s come out of the internet. I received this email from them today:
We are writing to let you know that PayPal’s BillPay service will be discontinued in early August, 2005. If you currently use BillPay, you will need [...]
My buddy Benjamin was in the office today. While he hurts the billable hours bottom line, he’s a total doll and boosts office morale.
Do you know how to make a pivot table in Excel?
I give up. Just pet me.
Yummy - you taste good!
More (full size) photos in the gallery.
Back in January I wrote about our new intern at the office and how I spit coffee on her (accidentally!) during her first day. The poor girl. In fact, the intern was in a meeting today sitting in the exact same spot where the coffee incident occurred. I snapped a photo with [...]
I live above this tunnel:
The entire metro area’s traffic cameras are online. At least big brother is sharing! Next time there’s a big accident, I’ll be jumping online to see how big the pileup is!
There’s been speculation that Google uses the term “Public Beta” a little loosly. If you think about it - it’s gmail service was unveiled in a beta fashion. No hype, just word of mouth and folks touting the service. About a year later it’s one of the most popular free email providers [...]
I got a new toy tonight. A 5 megapixel, 10x optical zoom, with a 512mb media card, toy.
More photos in the gallery.
BMW SUVs and serenity in the north
5 Comments Published May 9th, 2005 in Absurdity, Autobiographical, Family, Home / Minneapolis, RecoveryJim told his story tonight at Hazelden. He did a great job. He’s an awesome speaker, getting both laughs and applauses. It’s quite an honor to be asked to speak at the treatment center that’s pretty much invented the current 28 day treatment program prescribed to most sufferring alcoholics and addicts.
I’d never [...]
I guess the light that shone on Microsoft was too bright - they caved and announced they will support gay rights. It’s too bad they flip-flopped around on this issue, but I do think it’s great that such a big money corporation is willing to publicly state they support gay rights. Bravo, Microsoft.
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Do yourself a favor and go install Adaware and Free AVG, before a virus or 500 spyware tools install themselves on your computer. Adaware has been a savoir more times than I can count. I’ve set it up on my parent’s computer and run it at least once every two weeks, as unbeknown [...]
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