I’m really excited about the Olympics getting ready to start on 08.08.08. Even as simple as it is, I love the date it’s about to start.
One of the other things I’m looking forward to this year is the ability to really be able to enjoy the highlights of the various events that I will inevitably miss because of work or other responsibilities.
NBC has used the Microsoft Silverlight media technology to make the videos come alive.
The only problem is I’ve gone to the site now a few different times now and I’m continually prompted to download and install the Silverlight 2.0 software, which I’ve done. You know what the problem is? Firefox, or at least Firefox 3.0. As good as Silverlight 2.0 might be, I’d think Microsoft would want to make it work on Firefox wouldn’t you?
What’s the deal here. Doesn’t seem smart to me.
The Windows Live Search has gotten another overhaul now, and they’ve taken a little bit of a different slant on what their home page looks like as you can see from the screen shot.
Along with a new background, which I’ve yet to figure out if you can change it to something else you would like. If you hover over certain sections Microsoft kinds of leads you on the types of information you can search for and use with Live Search.
Most of the settings you’ve come to expect from customizing your search experience is available: filtering, language, number of results, etc.
One pretty neat feature of the new search results is that the video search results allow you to play the video preview by just hovering your mouse over the results instead of waiting to click on each video and let it load to start playing.
Mary Jo Foley at ZDNet has more information about what’s happening with Microsoft Live Search and their Live Mesh application. The article also quickly let me know that the search background picture changes and highlights more vertical search results related to the photo that was set as the background.
I probably have changed my opinions on gas prices very dramatically in the last few months and it?s really not only related to the cost of gas right now.
I used to drive somewhat out of my way to save less than $.10/gallon. I then realized that for my car, a 1996 Toyota Camry, which has a 17-gallon tank, I was only saving at most $1.70. I will admit though, I?m usually always interested in saving money any chance I can get, regardless of the actual amount. But, is going out of my way, and using more gas, worth the $1.70? I doubt it.
The reason I say that is because there are hundreds of other places and situations where we spend much more than $1.70 and don?t even think about it.
- buying a drink at a restaurant instead of water w/ lemon
- using an ATM from another bank
- going to Starbucks before work instead of getting free coffee at work
It wasn?t too long ago that my wife and I started looking at the idea of trading her van, which gets about 17 miles/gallon if we?re lucky. Oddly enough her van also has a 17-gallon tank, so we both spend about the same amount of money on a fill-up.
We thought about trying to sell the van and get a new Honda Civic Hybrid. The gas savings by comparison would have been tremendous. But with the increased and extended car payment, it would have taken a number of years to come out even.
Do you think it?s worth it?
Dave Ramsey?s Thoughts on Hybrid Cars
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