Archive

Here are my posts for October 2006.

Spamihilator

Are you as sick of spam as I am? It’s not just in email anymore… in addition to the hundreds of spam emails I receive at my 7 email addresses, this blog gets over 100 spam posts per day. Fortunately they are filtered out, but I still have to clean out the filter periodically. In [...]


 


The Best Chocolate

What is your favorite kind of chocolate? I think mine is Lindt – I’ve always been a fan of their dark chocolate truffles and chocolate-peanut butter truffles, and then this weekend I discovered their extra dark chocolate truffles, which are divine. I grew up on Fannie May chocolates, and I still think they have the [...]


 


Line Rider

Yet another fun timewaster… draw a slope and try to keep the rider from crashing (or not ): Line Rider


 


Stata Center, Cambridge

Today’s Doonesbury inspired me to google the Stata Center in Cambridge – what a cool building!


 


Google personalized homepage

I really like the Google personalized homepage, which offers the ability to customize a page with all kinds of cool gadgets, both practical (weather, lunar phases, calculator) and fun (I am totally addicted to the game Flood it). I don’t have it set as my homepage – that honor goes to Learn French at About [...]


 


Stupid things people say

White House Press Secretary Tony Snow initially minimized the [former Representative Mark Foley] scandal in an interview with CNN: “Look, I hate to tell you, but it’s not always pretty up there on Capitol Hill, and there have been other scandals, as you know, that have been more than simply naughty e-mails.” Source: The Mercury [...]


 


“Open Season”

Saw it Saturday night, in IMAX 3-D. Great movie! There was one line that was so unexpected and so funny that I was still shaking with laughter 10 minutes later. In addition to the big names like Martin Lawrence and Ashton Kutcher, I immediately recognized the voice of the character Ian, but it wasn’t until [...]


 


Good vs Well

The English words good and well are often confused by native and non-native speakers of English – this is a good lesson that will put you well on your way to understanding the difference: Good vs Well


 


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