I just got an email from Brandon Gillespie who owns the restaurant and wine bar Beato in West Seattle. He is the husband of a good friend of my sister (in-law) – practically related… 8^) He started Beato two years ago and now due to economic conditions, he has to close the doors for good…
A friend of mine just sent me a link to a cool webpage called Newseum which hosts the front pages of over 714 newspapers in the US and in 66 other countries. You can see a screenshot of some of the covers from Pennsylvania newspapers below. Obviously they all have Obama on the front. and…
After 1.5 years of treating my Treo 750 horribly and a rapidly declining battery life, it finally decided to die on me Thursday night. I had been dreading the moment since I knew that it would force me to make the decision between getting the iPhone and getting some other random Windows Mobile version. After…
No matter what you think of the new I’m a PC Windows ads and no matter what you think about Windows Vista, when you take a step back and look at the effect of the campaign on the Apple advertising tactics, it has been dramatic. The most visible effect — Apple is no longer running…
I leave tomorrow night for the next stop on my quest to play all of the top 100 public golf courses before I die….. This time: Pinehurst #2, Pine Needles, and Pinehurst #8 which are the #5, #43, and #94 respectively. In addition to those, we are playing a bunch of other great courses…
No matter what your politics are, it is clear that Sarah Palin is the brunt of a ton of jokes in the days leading up to the debate tonight. Here are a few funny ones that I have gotten forwarded to me in the last few days. Tonight should be interesting… http://palinbingo.com/ http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1831461 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reRTXJSyTjo&hl=en&fs=1&hl=en]…
Mike twittered last week about two new gadgets which help you keep constantly updated on the election. They are the Election Countdown gadget and the Gallup Poll gadget. As long as you have Vista, you are golden since they install right in the Sidebar. You can see them in action below. You can get them…
I was in Walla Walla this weekend and I have been working so hard this week getting the latest Windows Live release out, that I hadn’t had a chance to watch the SNL skit of Hillary and Palin from last weekend until just now. What a riot. From what I understand, it was the only…
I woke up this morning and of course thought back to where I was when 9/11 happened. I remember waking up slightly hung over and getting ready to go to work when I saw my phone and realized I had 10 vmail messages. They all just said “turn on your TV”. After turning on CNN,…
As everyone (hopefully) knows by now, Microsoft hired Seinfeld to do a set of commercials to talk about Windows. The first one came out last week, was shown all over TV, and got mixed reviews overall. However, from what the team developing the ads said, it was supposed to lay the groundwork for the rest…