Revvin' It Up

Sometimes travel can stink, but thanks to the wonders of a wireless world it's not all that bad. Today, I thought we had this travel logistics thing licked. I was coming in from Birmingham (the usual travel work week done). The girls were returning from their vacation (another benefit their shameless life of leisure affords them). We were supposed to arrive 5 mins apart, leaving time for me to get off my plane, jump the Skylink train, pick up the car and meet them at their baggage claim. Well thanks to storms in the Upper Midwest, air traffic out of O'Hare is delayed 3.5 hrs - too little to go home, too much to twiddle my thumbs/walk slow/or any other minor time waste you can come up with. So, enter the greatness of the wireless day pass. Here I am, sitting here in the Admirals club at DFW where I can catch up on some work, mess around, and answer some emails that are long past due. Pretty sweet compared to the old days (counting the times the janitors clean out the restrooms across from the gate, contemplate buying that bag of lemon drops that's been hanging on the shelf at the sundry shop for 12 1/3 yrs, ... you name it). This isn't all that bad!!

I saw this article on ExtremeTech today. Pretty cool new browser (built on top of Firefox) that converges social bookmarking (includes settings to automatically post bookmarks to your local folder as well as sites like del.icio.us), photo/video sharing (also includes settings to automatically post bookmarks to your local folder as well as sites like del.icio.us), RSS reader, etc. Here's a excerpt:

Flock Evolves the Browser to Web 2.0

Review: Why limit yourself to IE, Firefox, and Opera? Flock puts a Web 2.0 twist on browsing, incorporating mashups with blogging, social bookmarking, and photo sharing sites.

I stumbled on this post from the peeps at LifeHacker. Pretty interesting note on how to convert your $60 Linksys WRT style router into a highly configurable, beast-of-a $600 router. Geek stuff for sure, but pretty interesting nonetheless...

http://www.lifehacker.com/software/router/hack-attack-turn-your-60-router-into-a-600-router-178132.php

KP

Spelling bee live blog play-by-play. Freakin' hilarious...

http://orange44.blogspot.com/2006/06/orange44-jumps-shark.html

Thanks to the guys from BON for bringing attention to this post.

KP

Boy did Tim "Dipstick" Thomas make a mistake when he blew that kiss at Dirk. Why? Because Dirk smoked that chump for 22 points in the 4th quarter!! Ha! We'll see if he is crazy enough to call the Germinator another synonym for cat in the next game.

My buddy, Mark, has said it and shown it to us in this post...
http://markup.thekraemers.com/2006/06/02/we-all-nowitzness/

I've been playing with a new Extension the past few days. My buddy, Ward, turned me on to it. It is called Browster (http://www.browster.com) and works for both Firefox and IE. It allows you to preview any link on a page by hovering over it. After a split second delay, a lightning bolt icon will appear above the link. If you most your mouse over the top of the icon, a new browser (the Browster browser) pops up. What you get is a fully functional web page inside the pop-up browser. Allowing you to not only preview the web page (e.g. Reveal), but interact with a fully functional web page. I have tested it with Flash sites and the perform just as they usually would. Browster is especially effective when using major search engines to search the web (e.g. Google, Yahoo, etc). It's fairly cool, but the mouse over the lightning bolt seems to be a little annoying at times. It pops up the Browster window when I don't necessarily want it to.

Still all-in-all, it's not too bad.

Kev

The game Saturday night was driving me crazy in the 4th quarter. Layup after layup. Easy basket after easy basket. The Mavs were looking like the team of old: giving up way to many cheap buckets!! This team has way too much heart, though. And unlike previous years, they can play some defense. Sometimes their defense is only just enough to win, but at least that's something and at least it's better than the old days.

The scariest brain dump in all the known blogging world has began... KP has started to share his mediocrity with the world!!