Omron: ‘Say cheese!’

Evian Roller Babies US

Cute stuff.

Post-It Love

Gotta love this short film, it’s awesome. It’s about a man and a woman who find love at the office. Their romance blossoms through Post-It note designs they make for each other.

Wondering when AT&T will get its act together on iPhone tethering. On a larger scale, will they ever get their act together on customer service? Because that’s what’s really pissing people off. When I deal with them, I only encounter untrained, non-knowledgeable techs and reps. They can’t ever seem to be able to follow through on their promises. It’s truly frustrating.

Glad that Saab has been bought by Koenigsegg. That should be a welcome change. On the other hand, I’m disappointed that Hummer is going to a Chinese company. That will likely mean a decrease in quality and durability. Also disappointing is Hummer’s sale price, which is supposed to be less than 500 million USD according to the NYT.

See this slideshow for GM’s protracted fall from glory to bankruptcy: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/05/31/business/20090531_GM_TIMELINE.html

Every time I boot up the Windows XP virtual machine on my Mac, I waste at least half an hour with stupid Windows “critical updates”, not to mention Windows Live One Care updates. My computer is always “at risk”. Windows seems intent on wasting my time, every time I use it.

The world isn’t interested any more in general knowledge. It thinks it’s too busy (has no time) for that. It wants filtered, categorized, re-interpreted knowledge, little catchy bites, pre-chewed information, regurgitated into their vacuous minds so their short attention spans can spend all of 2 seconds thumbing through the new stuff before pooping it out, never to remember it again.

Watching this video about Obama and the new administration. It gets really interesting about 40-45 minutes into it.

This is Dominic the two-legged dog. Amazingly inspirational stuff. He is happy and well-adjusted in spite of his handicap.

Installed and used the SimplePie RSS plugin for WP on my regular site at raoulpop.com. Its name is somewhat of a misnomer. It’s neither simple, nor “easy as pie” to begin with. Sure, after you check the documentation carefully, a light goes on in your head and you realize how to use it, but there’s a learning curve. I do agree, however, that the things it lets you do are quite nice. For example, I used it to rewrite my SmugMug recent photos feed and show only the thumbnails of the latest 10 images uploaded, each linked directly to the original image. I really like the result, but it took a bit of figuring out.

Barcelona in 1908

I love the way this video was done.

The arch is a common architectural element at Histria. They seemed to love using bricks in conjunction with field stone, layering them on top of each other in interesting ways. 

Photo taken among the ruins of Histria, the oldest documented city on Romanian territory. Histria is located on the shore of Lake Sinoe, a salt-water lake with a direct link to the Black Sea, near Constanta, in the region of Dobrogea.