I previously blogged that i was going to try Streetkeys.com to get a replacement key. well don’t bother, they don’t really seem to be able to offer the service they promise. without ever explaining why, they refunded our money and told us “we can’t help you”. We have to get a key the hard way now – have the car towed to a dealership and have the key cut and matched at the dealership. Sad.

From InTheBullpen.com, a link to Football Fans for Truth. Kerry seems downright unamerican.

A visual history of spam (and virus) email – he is the true king of the geeks.

Life of a one-man IT department

OK based on this reco – Movalog: Merging your blogs – i installed multiblog last nite. actually went on kind of a plugin install rampage. the install of multiblog and getxml were so easy i decided to try out some more from the mt3 tested library. i’ve slowed down tho, as the install of typemover hasn’t worked quite so well – some path problems.

Dude, you must not be married. From NCAA College Football - Fanblogs.com: TV schedule for 09/18, here is Kevin’s TV plan for the weekend:

bq.. Well, with four Tivo’s running on 8 sat inputs, it looks like this:

Fri: UConn/BC Sat: Nebraska/Pitt (T1) Maryland/WVU (T2) Duke/Va Tech (T3) TCU/Texas Tech (T4) Marshall/UGA (T5) Ohio State/NC State (T1) Oregon/OU (T6) LSU/Auburn (T2) Wisconsin/Zona (T7) UAB/FSU (T8) UCLA/Washington (T3) Notre Dame/Michigan State (T4) Clemson/Texas A&M (T5) Florida Tennessee (T6) Boise State/UTEP (T1) Minnesota/Colorado State (T7) USC/BYU (T2)

These might be cool – meryl.net articles: WordToys – though it has been a month of Sundays since I’ve used Word. Mostly i type email, blog entries, and then some structured stuff like XML, HTML, PHP, etc. It is a rare day I type a word doc.

Paul Thurrott’s Internet Nexus – “Tunebite supports customer to hear their music everywhere they want. Did you purchase your music online and do you find it frustrating that you can?t listen to it wherever you want to? Tunebite is fully automated to free you from this annoyance when you listen to music. With Tunebite you can listen to your music everywhere from now on, even on your MP3 player. Legal & foolproof: Tunebite runs in the background on your Windows PC. When you play back a piece of music, Tunebite automatically re-records the song. This is legal and foolproof.” Awesome.

“Stateless Linux” Project Announced - OSNews.com – this is great news. Really should have been a core principle of Longhorn.

Tong Family Blog: Build-To-Order PCs, PC Reference Sources. Great sites all.

Sam recommends aerofly pro or realflight. I don’t have current need, just storing for the future.

Microsoft Monitor: Intel Extends Media Center – need to learn more about “DTCP-IP”:google mentioned in here

The Wildseed phone is available now on CellularOne – and the smartskins site is live – congrats folks!

In response to the snarky attitude about the eastside in What the heck is he thinking ? Survival tips for Dave Winer while in Seattle, here are some things you can only enjoy on the eastside:

* Stay at the Bellevue Club, one of the nicest hotels in Seattle * Play a round of golf at Sahalee (former site of the PGA), NewCastle (amazing views), Snoqualmie Ridge (a TPC course) * Visit the headquarters of Microsoft, Costco, or Ignition :) * take a boat ride to gene coulon park and get some fish and chips. * Drive up Somerset hill at sunset for one of the greatest views of Seattle and Bellevue * Eat at Dixie’s * Meet people who don’t have a snotty ?the eastside is so plebeian? attitude. :) * attend Salmon days festival in issaquah * Take an argosy cruise out of kirkland and go see billg’s, steveb’s craig mccaw’s houses * go hiking – rattlesnake ledge is great, but there are a thousand destinations in the cascades * go to Fry’s * go to Crossroads for a funkier mall experience – Firenze is a great italian restaurant there * go visit the Salish Lodge for a meal or a night.

Hey I love downtown Seattle too but there are great experiences everywhere.