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Wired News: Scientists Pin Date on L.A. Quake – I was lying in bed this morning in my hotel room in Pleasanton, CA, thinking about driving back across the San Francisco Bay on the Hayward Bridge. And then I remembered this Wired article I read about 6 months ago. These people predicted a 6.4 earthquake… Continue reading The Next Big One

Welcome to Soda Club Featuring The Fountain Jet Home Soda Maker – I definitely want one!

Since I haven’t seen any comments on any of my blog entries in the past 4 months, I decided to stop using Haloscan. It’s a very nice service, but I just don’t need it. I’m using ChoiceMail One these days for my anti-spam program. It works very nice. Guess how much of my emails are… Continue reading Untitled

Picasa: Automated Digital Photo Organizers, Picture Software, Instant Photo Albums, Sharing, Printing – This is cool stuff. When I read about them being acquired by Google, I downloaded their software. It’s free, and easy to use, and useful. I also got their Hello program, which is a way for people to share photos without using… Continue reading Untitled

Bloomberg.com: Top Worldwide: “The July 12-15 Marist poll put the so-called undecideds among U.S. registered voters at 9 percent and found that 7 percent of those leaning toward one candidate might switch.” – Aha, a fact. So, 9% of voters are undecided, as of a couple weeks ago. That’s actually more than I expected. I… Continue reading Untitled

Wired News: SpaceShipOne Countdown Starts – I don’t even know what to write here, but if these guys are successful, they could change everything.

Oh, and did I mention I wrote a page about my exciting experiences with eBay seller cd.hunter? You can find that here.

Beth and I saw two movies last weekend, both of which I’d recommend. Friday night we say the new Harry Potter movie, which we both enjoyed. I think I liked it more than the last one. The reason we went to that was that Fahrenheit 9/11 was sold out, but we got into a showing… Continue reading Untitled

I got this email today. It’s what’s known as “phishing” where someone sends you a message that looks somewhat legitimate, to try to trick you into logging into an unknown website and entering private information. In this case, they tried to make it look like a message from PayPal. I’m a PayPal user, so this… Continue reading Untitled

Wired News: More False Information From TSA – Your tax money, hard at work illegally gathering your personal information without your permission.