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A cat, named Minnie, which I am rather allergic too.

After using Google’s Picasa for a while, I’ve decided to (finally) start using Flickr. I’ve loved the site since day one, but I haven’t used it much for sharing photos. I’ve preferred Picasa’s integration into my Google contacts for very selective photosharing, and while that is still the case Flickr is just too good not [...]

Sorry for the lack of activity around here. I’ve been really busy at work and Geek.com has really been getting a huge chunk of my attention. I’ve also noticed that my RSS burden has been increased over the last few months rather significantly, so I’m reading a lot more online which is great, but also [...]

Right now I’m going through what I would imagine to be nightmare of every web worker. That’s right: my internet connection is extremely slow.
Just to clarify, it’s been fine during the day but it’s been insane slow at night (peak hours). My last speedtest (through speedtest.nyc.rr.com) put me at 509 kbps down and 403 kbps [...]

So for a few days now Starbucks has been saying that they would have some very big news at noon (EST) today. Before anyone even had a chance to get interested news broke that is was an “everyday blend” of drop coffee.
I’m not a Starbucks fan, but I live in Manhattan, so there is one [...]

Dear Sal Cangeloso,Thank you so much for the rocket engines. Our students will have an exciting, hands-on way of learning Newton’s 3rd Law. My students are already talking about the project and thanks to you, we will have an amazing time building and flying homemade rockets. Thank you and have a great day.
[name redacted]
Thanks [...]

I picked up an Asus Eee PC, finally.
It’s already time to upgrade the RAM on my Eee PC.
I “upgraded my Nokia N800 today because a new update tool was available- it actually rolled by my hacked OS2008 update to a newer version of the old N800 OS. Bor-ing. Can’t wait for OS2008 to go official [...]