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…
Those of you that actually read anything on my blog know that I love music and especially love live music. So, when I first moved to Seattle, I was pumped to see that my new favorite radio station –KEXP – put out an annual live studio recording album every year. The profits of which are…
A friend of mine, Denis, had sent me a video of a band called the National about 6 months ago along with an email asking if I wanted to go see them in concert. After listening to the video, I was sold. Flash forward 6 months to last night. They were playing at the Moore…
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…
I just read this article and was shocked:http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/sfl-flzunited0909sbsep09,0,7405794.story It is just mind-blowing to me that one news article that mistakenly referenced an old article about United from 2002 could have that much influence on the price and volatility of a stock. It dropped from 12 to 4 and then came back to 11 over the…
In Part I of the Alaskan trip, I wrote about the amazing quantity and quality of fish that we caught. In this version, I am going to include photos of the ridiculous animal viewing experiences that we had. From bears to whales to otters to bald eagles to killer mosquitoes, we saw both a crazy…
I just saw this article from ESPN.com which polled 8 sports bloggers to get their opinion on the NFL’s best fans. While the Steelers were number 1, the Eagles were top 5. They ranked them on the following aspects: Stadium factor (St.): Loud? Great atmosphere? Live and die factor (LDF): Fans take loss hard? (That’s…
I don’t know how many of you actually saw the images that Live Search used from the Olympics as the background to their search page at: http://search.live.com but they were very cool visually and I thought they were a great idea to differentiate the page during the Olympics. If you want to see those images,…