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.

Good article on the dairy lobby. Interesting (in a sad way) how money influences our government’s dietary recommendations.

Crap! lost all the keys to one of our cars…disaster…per the dealership we have to have the car towed in! (late model car with a key coded to the car). Street Keys seems to offer a better way, we’ll give it a whirl.

Adrants: Oprah Show One Big Car Commercial – if you didn’t see this show, it is worth finding it on someone’s tivo (or finding a torrent) and watching it. The audience reaction was just incredible.

Rich recommends PHPEdit. Phil uses Eclipse, pythonwin, emacs, and sometimes dreamweaver mx. I know lots of people used to use slickedit. Sam likes source insight.

Most of these are overkill for me, I just need lightweight html, xml, perl, php editing. Maybe rich is right with phpedit. tho i love all the support around eclipse.

I’ve started to eliminate MSN Messenger and Windows Messenger clients from all my machines. Motivated to do so by a couple problems:

* too aggressive toast behaviour, when I am playing a directx game i don’t want any toast thank you. (AIM has this problem too). * poor idle detection. people were sending me messages when i was not at my machine. * wrong strategy for presence detection. messages were going to the wrong machine (I use 4 at work and 5 at home regularly) and i would see messages days after they arrived. AIM has this right, they don’t try to figure out presence, they just MIRV the message to all your signed-in locations.

If you want to IM me, i’m jhludwig on AIM.

International? 7300 CXT; – nice pointer from Sam.

Following up on my earlier post, I installed. Very simple to install, very clear doc. I’ve done my first stupid little trial use – my Halloween schedule in a sidebar on the right. Obviously need to work on formatting but this is very cool.

Dark Voyage : A Novel by Alan Furst is a moody little corner of wwII, where the nazis aren’t so evil, the allies aren’t so allied, and there are a whole host of nations in between (spain, portugal, finland, sweden, switzerland, ireland, …) who are playing their own games. A lot richer in mood and hero character than many wwii spy/adventure stories.

Note to self – try out the getxml plugin as a better way to integrate football scores, standings, etc.

Best find at hd today – buckets of “oops” paint – paint they mixed up mistakenly and are selling for a fraction of the price of regular paint. Great for my first project of the season – boarding up my windows.

OK I upgraded. Pardon any problems. The default stylesheet for the admin interface seems to be screwed in firefox and in ie.

UPDATE: ok i fixed the problem with the admin interface, config problem on my end.

UPDATE: i’ve substantially tightened up my comment acceptance practices to deal with spam, i was flooded over the weekend. i may loosen as i get comfortable with typekey, moderation features, etc.