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The Cats are Watching

Lucy on the monitor

The difference between working at home and working at the office? At the office there aren’t cats watching over me. Right now I’ve got one cat sleeping on a metal cabinet two feet above me, and another one on top of my monitor, which, I’m pretty sure, can’t be good for heat dissipation. It is however, very cute, in that “cat” sort of way.

Update: Temporarily lost our net connection when cat fell of off monitor onto cable modem.

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Communication Overload

Today we’re sitting in front of a computer with an email client running, and an IM client running (that’s all normal) as well as a landline phone, a cellular phone, and an FRS radio. The email client and IM are for work, and the phone is the “home phone” and the cellular phone is really just an SMS receiving device, and the FRS radio is for the sick child upstairs to request nursing services.

Devices provided by Panasonic, Motorola, and Nokia. Software provided by Mozilla and Fire.

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Valenwha?

HURM

(Thanks Rorschach!)

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Travel Time

Yesterday I spent over 2 hours driving, over 3 hours flying, and about 4 hours waiting. Oh, also had a brief meeting in between all that.

And I must say, I thought the Carl’s Jr. at BWI was bad, but I think the Taco Bell there might be worse. In contrast, the Burger King at MKE was actually decent.

I was unable to connect to any open wifi networks in Maryland, though I did find a couple. The signal strength where I was showed zero for all of them. (Some of them may have been FBI honeypots, but I can’t talk about that.) At BWI I finally did locate a 120 volt outlet, there was some Australian guy using it with his laptop, I asked if there was wifi, and he said yes, but it wasn’t free. :( He proceeded to make fun of the Apple yo-yo power adapter, and shortly after that he got up to leave and said he would see me later, though I sort of doubt that.

Anyway, another fun trip… glad to be back home!

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Google Maps

You already know about Google Maps, right? Of course you do…

But did you know it took me about 5 minutes of hacking on the WordPress Geo plugin to make it work with Google Maps, and chances are if you see a link below with some weird numbers prefixed with “lat/lon” and you click on them, it’ll take you to a Google Map showing you, well, a map?

WordPress good. Google good.

Of course it’s beta, just like Gmail. Sometimes I think the only thing not in beta at Google is search.