My 12 year old son has taken upon himself to raise $1,000 to help victims of the tsunamis. To do so he has arranged a raffle, he has gotten prizes donated, created raffle tickets on his computer, had them printed, and has enlisted friends to go door-to-door to help sell them. And so to assist him...
Over a year ago I mentioned the Looney Tunes Golden Collection, and confessed that guilty pleasure. Well, I now have Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 2 , 60 cartoons on 4 DVD's that are required viewing (over and over, of course). Disc 1 is all Bugs, disc 2 is the best of Road Runner (buy the...
Microsoft recently acquired a small anti-spyware vendor, and has released their product in beta form as Microsoft AntiSpyware . The timing of this one seems really bad, if the tool is any good then it should have been included in XP SP2, but better late than never. At first glance it looks pretty...
While in D.C. next week I'll get the chance to speak to the WAMMO user group , and will be talking about event gateways and SMS integration in Blackstone. This group is always well attended and highly interactive, the event should be fun. If you are in the area, please drop by! Details on the WAMMO...
I don't know when this one was introduced, it seemed to slip in under the radar, but Yahoo! has added traffic condition and incident reports to Yahoo! Maps. Maps now display little colored icons indicating reported traffic speed and incident severity, mouse-over the icon for a popup containing...
Last week I mentioned the Canary Wireless Digital Hotspotter HS10 , a full-featured WiFi detection and analysis device, and promised to post my thoughts on the device when I had gotten to try it out. Well, I have mine, and have played with it, and highly recommend that you do too. The device is...
I left my "Do you use CFC's?" poll up for longer than planned (I wanted to wait for at least 1,000 responses, and just noticed that there are over 1,200 already). The stats are impressive, with 73% of respondents using or tinkering with ColdFusion Components, and 38% claiming "I'd code no other...
I love my job, care about the products I am involved in, and thoroughly enjoy working for Macromedia. But I have never been prouder of the company than I am now. Yesterday an e-mail from Sankalp Saxena, Managing Director of Macromedia India, was sent to all Macromedia employees worldwide. The...
As many Treo 650 buyers have discovered, that device does not work with most Bluetooth equipped cars (including my own Acura TL ). The reason for this is that the 650 supports the Bluetooth headset profile (used by most headsets) but not the handsfree profile (used by most cars). Last week, palmOne...
I just did something that I never thought I would ever do, I deleted a thread from my blog. Well, I did not actually delete it (I could not bring myself to do that), but I did deactivate it, and that makes me cringe. No, I am not back-peddling or retracting anything (I may reactivate the thread at...