Archive For March, 2009

Gmail Milestone

By | March 16, 2009

I don’t know when exactly it happened, but sometime in the past week or so, my gmail inbox surpassed 10,000 messages.  I delete the junk mail but save almost everything else, in case I need to reference it later.  I remember having to delete messages from my UW account to make room under my 100MB [...]

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Squaw

By | March 15, 2009

Saturday was another beautiful day of skiing in the California sun.  Mostly groomers but the bumps softened up in the afternoon for a little exercise.  We skiied almost every lift and definitely covered a lot of terrain.  Just wish the mountain was a little closer.  Six hours of driving for six hours of skiing isn’t [...]

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Past My Prime

By | March 15, 2009

According to new research, we reach our mental peak at age 22, and may start to seriously decline after age 27.  Better make the most of the next 6 months!

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Bike Ride

By | March 12, 2009

bike-parking

It’s been more than 10 years since I rode a bike consistently.  I think I reached my bike-riding peak in the years right before getting my driver’s license.  You were old enough to have places to go, but too young to drive there.  So you rode your bike. And it wasn’t a chore or a [...]

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An Ode to Tabbed Browsing

By | March 10, 2009

Does this make you feel old?  There’s an entire generation of Internet users that won’t be able to even remember a time before tabbed browsing.  The era of multiple browser windows really wasn’t that long ago (maybe 2004-2005?), but it might have well have been the dark ages.  And the thing is, we didn’t even [...]

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New Harry Potter Trailer

By | March 9, 2009

Here’s the latest trailer for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, which comes out in July.  Wasn’t it supposed to come out last November? To get in the spirit of the upcoming movie, and in honor of next month’s Mexico trip, I’ve got Harry Potter y el Misterio del Principe on hold from the [...]

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