Where’s the peanut butter?!

I haven’t written a whole lot in a while for a couple reasons
but not for lack of news. Over Christmas I saw my family, my parents’
new house, our adorable but old and ailing href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/slipperyp/sets/73569/">Bernese
Mountain Dogs, Tanya had her href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/slipperyp/2680416/">appendix taken
out, and met one of my high school friends’ baby href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000417/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj0wfHE9Y3Jpc3BpbnxodG1sPTF8bm09b24_;fc=2;ft=67;fm=1">Crispin. I
got a number of wonderful Christmas gifts including a tripod, href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0195161912/ref=pd_wt_1/002-2059087-8266435?coliid=I1XH5NPZO9MRD2">Garner,
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002XL2X4/qid=1105647549/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/002-2059087-8266435?v=glance&s=music&n=507846">Left
of the Dial, and a feathery cat puppet that our real cat Jupiter
loves.

When we got back to Seattle we learned our friends Ang and
Greg are expecting a baby soon (it’s that time in our lives, eh?), we
got our annual href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/slipperyp/3211765/">snowfall,
work at work and home is already piling up pretty quickly, and
Washington href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/207695_governor13.html">swore
in a new governor in spite of the violent flip-flop by
conservatives who were happy with the results in Florida four years
ago but somewhat less happy about the results when their interests are
not served. Tanya went to the doctor today for her appendectomy
followup and it looks like she’s on track for a pretty standard
recovery which means a chunk out of her hockey and snowboarding season
but she’ll hopefully be recovered in time for the exhibition games in
February?

I think that’s about it…

Microsoft recently released href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/downloads/activesync38.mspx">ActiveSync
3.8 and href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/downloads/voicecommand/updateversion.mspx">Voice
Command 1.5 for PocketPC. The ActiveSync update, as usual,
doesn’t really talk about what it adds except for doing things better
(let’s hope that I can finally start syncing between my work computer
which usually has some unrelased version of Office and home computer
which usually has the latest released Office) and venture into the
world of many conflicts and duplicated entries during sync.

I’m already excited about the Voice Command update, though. It adds
the ability to announce the incoming caller’s name, can respond to
“what time/date is it?” (useful when my phone is in its duct-tape
sheath), and ringer control settings. I also finally took the time to
move my Favorite shortcuts for bus schedule information into the start
menu so I can now say “start 242 to home” and it will launch the
browser to get the page with the href="http://www.mybus.org>mybus prediction for when my bus home will arrive. I should have done that a long time ago.

SlayerOffice.com have href="http://slayeroffice.com/?c=/content/tools/modi.html">created a cool mouse-over DOM inspector. I’ve copied it for personal use href="javascript:void(z=document.body.appendChild(document.createElement('script')));void(z.language='javascript');void(z.type='text/javascript');void(z.src='http://psoul.com/modi/modi.js');void(z.id='modi');">here

• Chomsky Torrents
• Linksys WRT54G and WRT54GS Hacking - Taking Advantage Of Technology
• Eyesore of the Month by James Howard Kunstler
• Look at Me, a collection of found photos
• LinksysWrt54g - SeattleWireless

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