Archive for March, 2005

SkyMall Promoting Corporate Espionage

Thursday, March 31st, 2005

Recently there's been some major buzz about corporate espionage. Several cases were in reference to someone stealing secret documents and product plans from Apple and posting them on Apple-related blogs. Law suits have been tossed around, the FBI has gotten involved, etc.While on my Southwest flight, I was browsing ...

Southwest Is Super Cheap

Wednesday, March 30th, 2005

I made a round trip flight to California this week to do some computer work. On my return flight, the 'meal' we were given was a tiny bag of peanuts and some broken Ritz crackers. The peanut bag was small enough to hold in the palm of my hand. Of ...

Breakfast "T.K.O."

Sunday, March 27th, 2005

Codi and I had a nice, relaxing rainy Sunday. At about midnight Saturday night, I made a fresh loaf of molasses bread (so good!). Sunday morning, I made it into french toast. I used vanilla extract and mango yogurt in the batter, then topped the french toast ...

Geheimnisapfelbier

Saturday, March 26th, 2005

I finally bottled and aged my latest home-brew. I used an old, old recipe that called for specialized yeasts, high-test beer ingredients, a dozen pressed apples and the pulp from the pressed apples.The result is a flavorful bier that doesn't taste like any traditional bier, nor does it taste like ...

G.L. Williams - Country Music

Friday, March 25th, 2005

I am putting together a site for country singer G.L. Williams. I have been listening to two of his CDs for about 7 hours now, editing songs for online clips, etc. Really good stuff. The site should be live by Monday. I'll link to it when ...

Freezing Cold

Friday, March 25th, 2005

It was sort of chilly this afternoon, so I went outside for a while. About 30 minutes later, a cold wind picked up. In less than two minutes, the sky darkened as a massive storm cloud formed over head. One small rain drop, two, three... all of ...

Little Ways To Get Rich Quick

Sunday, March 20th, 2005

I know this may seem like I'm belittling these guys, but check out this short video clip for a get-rich-quick plan advertized on TV. The full-length infomercial is 30 minutes long, but I've truncated it for those with short attention spans.Approx. 1.5MB - Windows Media file - works in Windows ...

Quickbooks Customer Manager 2.0 Easter Egg

Saturday, March 19th, 2005

Just in time for the real Easter, I found an easter egg (or just a total screw-up by some programmer at Intuit) in the new program, QuickBooks Customer Manager 2.0.When you install the program, you can watch (or play later) the how-to Flash tutorial. I was looking for my ...

Hobby Time

Friday, March 18th, 2005

I resumed one of my favorite hobbies today; learning foreign languages. I am studying Serbo-Croatian, Ukranian and Polish. Gotta love those slavic languages!

Dumbest Slogan In The World

Tuesday, March 15th, 2005

Someone acually got paid to write this slogan. Even worse, a committee approved it for their marketing campaign.Life in the digital hub is a banquet � when it's not like drinking from a fire hose. NoteBook helps you keep track. Take notes, clip content, share information. Who says you can't ...