The Desert of My Dreams

Just a quick note for those of you who like keeping up with my fragmented lifestreams - I recently switched from Bloglines to Google Reader. I’ve been using Bloglines for several years and I mostly made the switch because I like the Google Reader UI better (and I’m bored with seeing Bloglines’ very ancient […]

I celebrated my birthday a few weeks ago.  This year was a bit different from the other 26 birthdays I’ve celebrated in my life - a larger percentage of my social network (and my strongest ties) are distributed across the country (and around the world).  Even when I was going to school at SI, my […]

One of the nice things about working at MS is getting the opportunity to play with new stuff. I installed Vista and Office 2007 on my work laptop a couple of weeks ago. There are a lot of interesting UI elements to both so I’ve posted some screenshots on flickr. My personal […]

This blog post is brought to you by my new wifi network. There are plenty of things to do in the new apartment - like unpacking those last five boxes, unpacking and ironing all of my clothes, setting up my monitor/scanner/printer/mp3 hard drive, doing the dishes, taking out the trash, or doing the […]

OK Go, one of my favorite bands, is holding a dance contest, utilizing YouTube in a very interesting way. Judging by the two times I’ve seen them in Ann Arbor at the Blind Pig, the band has a fairly young (and rabid) fan following (late teens/early twenties). If you’re not familiar with OK […]

Yesterday morning, my parents’ land line suddenly stopped working. We can’t get a dial tone and you get a busy signal when you try to call the line. We called MCI and they were unhelpful, first blaming the problem on our phone and then finally agreeing to dispatch a technician. We’ve had […]

New Digital Camera
Originally uploaded by dorkyspice.

A replacement for the S40 that died unexpectedly.
More compelling photos are to come . . . as soon as I learn how to use it.

del.icio.us has recently rolled out a new feature that allows del.icio.us users to see who is subscribed to their bookmarks through the network (formerly the inbox) feature of del.icio.us. I’ve been wanting to see this feature for a long time so I’m glad it is finally here. I always assumed that the only […]

At approximately 1:32 PM* CST Tuesday afternoon, Noor Ali-Hasan’s Canon PowerShot S40 digital camera suffered a fatal drop outside of the Jewel Box in Forest Park. The Canon PowerShot S40 digital camera heroically continued to take a few more shots, including several of the exterior of the Cathedral Basilica. Nonetheless, the Canon PowerShot […]

SAA has created a centralized aggregator of all decentralized bottom-up things created by SIers - blog posts, del.icio.us bookmarks, and Flickr photos. The aggregator is the closest thing that SI has to a formal knowledge base/Intranet (the lack of which has been a huge pet peeve of mine). Nonetheless, as exciting as a […]