Can someone please tell me why automated phone systems will ask you for your phone number? Haven’t they heard of CallerID? I know it can be blocked, but 90% of the time the information they need is probably right there. Or, if it’s not your phone number they ask you to punch in it’s an account number, and what happens as soon as you actually talk to someone live? “May I have your? account number please?”.
Are you a racing fan? Do you own an Xbox 360?
Combine your two passions into one with the newest Forza 2 Motorsport game, which is now available at Best Buy. Buy it now and get a $10 gift card free to Best Buy. I’m not sure about you, but that kind of deal means $10 off another game later for me.
Once you’ve got the game, you can play it online for a chance to win some great prizes like Xbox 360 HD-DVD player, racing wheel and LIVE subscriptions.
I’ve been reminded of another frustration of mine with the full-screen reading mode in Word 2007. It screws with the margins and layout and changes the page breaks from how they would be seen when the document is printed. I was reading through a script with my wife tonight, she was reading a printed copy and I was reading it on the computer. Her page 16 was NOT my page 16.
That’s really annoying.
I’ve been a very happy user of Windows Live OneCare. I was involved with the product during it’s beta testing and limited release and have been pleased with it as much or more so than I have with any other anti-virus program. The benefit for me though is that it’s anti-spyware, anti-virus, firewall and back-up all rolled into one. I like that, I guess other’s don’t.
I’ve read the reviews about it not catching some things the other programs did, but I can tell you I haven’t had any problems with viruses or spyware since I’ve installed it.
I know the key component of staying protected is keeping your definitions up to date. Currently OneCare is letting me know my definitions are “Out-of-date” as you can see above, the problem is that it can’t find any updates. What’s up Microsoft? I know there are updates available, why can’t OneCare see them?
What a funny video. I love this guy the more I hear about him and see him in a variety of movies and roles.
He’s performing this video on Saturday Night Live.
Have you been to a porn site today? Have you been to the #1 Christian porn site on the Internet? Do you have a porn problem? XXXChurch.com may help.
Regardless of your view on pornography or the porn industry, XXXChurch.com is rapidly causing a stir in both the church and the porn community. They’re either causing some discomfort in the church with people thinking “we shouldn’t be talking about this stuff here”, or they’re stirring up some reactions by showing up at porn conventions and trying to save people from the industry.
Craig Gross, Pastor of XXXChurch.com, is currently hot on the circuit with his Porn Debate with adult film icon, Ron Jeremy. You can also visit their MySpace page.
I found and installed a nice little WordPress plugin for a couple of blog sites I manage for myself and friends: www.relevantfollower.com, www.refreshministry.com and this site. It’s called eBibleicious and it’s definitely “icious”.
The plug-in allows you to just type in a scripture reference to your post and it will generate either a javascript hover window, embed the full scripture text or just link to the scripture reference on the eBible.com website.
You can see an example of the embedded text on the www.refreshministry.com website
You can see an example of the hover text on the www.relevantfollower.com website
Here’s an example of just the text link provided for a scripture verse: 1 Peter 5:7 and Romans 3:23 (the text links aren’t working for some reason, but the other ways are pretty slick).
You can use scripture translations of the following versions: NASB, MSG, KJV, NKJV, ESV, HCSB, NCV, SpaRV, ItalRV
Pretty cool eh?
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I’ve written before about this lovely little message window I get when I try to start a couple of programs. Can someone please tell me why the program doesn’t remember me?
I didn’t get any comments on the original post, hopefully one of you out there today will read this and tell me how to fix it. The error message is:
Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio is configuring the environment for first time use. This might take a few minutes.
Overall it’s not a huge problem, it does just take a couple of extra minutes, no big deal. But it’s annoying and it definitely shouldn’t be happening and that’s what’s irritating to me. If you can help me, I’d love you forever and give you some serious link love if you can get me a fix.
Can you believe the size of that boar! It looks like a stinkin’ grizzly bear.
Jamison Stone’s father says the hog his son killed weighed a 1,051 pounds and measured 9-feet-4 from the tip of its snout to the base of its tail. Think hams as big as car tires.
Original news story on FOXNews and the Stone’s have setup their own website at www.monsterpig.com. I’ll caution you if you visit their website they’ve setup pages for people with both positive and negative comments. The negative comments are pretty harsh.
What do you think about an 11-year old boy shooting the pig? I’ll tell you, I grew up in the country in a little town so I think it’s fine. I’m certain, after reading some of the negative comments, that there are plenty of people that disagree with me.
Okay, I must be really out of touch or this stuff just isn’t hitting my radar screen as something that’s going to immediately impact my life. Have you heard of Microsoft’s PlayTable?
As usual Mary Jo Foley gets me the scoop on this bit of information.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates also provided a PlayTable-related technology demo during his Consumer Electronics Show (CES) keynote address in 2006, when he placed a cell phone containing digital photos on a tabletop device and all the pictures “flew out of it” and could be manipulated by touch and gestures. Microsoft has shown similar surface-computing-type demos at a handful of other conferences and events.
Okay, that sounds pretty cool, but someone explain to me the “flew out of it” part. Are we talking 3-D holograms here? It appears that’s somewhat of exactly what we’re talking about as well as it coming from the same folks who work on the Xbox and Zune. I’ve got to tell you, that makes me feel better because I have been pleased with those two devices.
“PlayTable” seems to have evolved from two other technologies that Microsoft has been working on called Touchlight and PlayAnywhere.
I’m imagining Touchlight as the technology behind what we appeared to have seen in Minority Report and other similar movies where data is being manipulated in a 3-D space on screen via a glove attached to the user. I’m guessing the PlayAnywhere is more like the little holographic game of chess that Chewbacca was playing on the Millenium Falcon in Star Wars.
PlayAnywhere is, according to Microsoft’s description, a “compact interactive tabletop projection-vision system.” Microsoft’s PlayAnywhere prototype includes a projector, camera with infrared pass filter and infred LED device. Microsoft showed off a PlayAnywhere-type demo during a keynote by Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in Los Angeles in mid-May 2007.
But all of that brings us back to my original question, why haven’t I heard of this before? It could just be that I’m out of the loop on where these things were brought up or I was asleep at the wheel that day or just busy head down working in Microsoft Office or Visual Web Developer Express. It sounds good and all, but I don’t foresee me using any real-world application of this stuff for a number of years, and by then I’ll probably have to have my son explain it to me.
Photo Credit: Technovelgy – where science meets fiction
After writing on this blog now for awhile, I’m curious what you as the readers like to find and read about on the blog? I’ve been mixing it up some lately with not just spotlighting a variety of websites, but also mixing in some cool videos I’ve found online or maybe even some interesting images or photos.
What do you like to have us uncover for you? Let us know in our first poll for the site!
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