Saw this on downloadsquad.com (I think?). There are two screen savers. One is called Holding Pattern and its a slow moving video of the view from a window in a plane. The free version (“Coach” class) has 17 different views. The paid-for version (“First Class” $17.50) has 57 different scenic views.
The other screen saver, Cubicle Flood, is a security camera view of an office cube space which slowly floods over the course of two hours (sounds like a missing scene from Office Space!).
I’m not big into politics, but I get sick of truth stretching. The republicans did quite a bit of that during their speeches at the National Convention. Here are some specifics picked up by the news agencies Obama isn’t free from the stretching either. That’s why its a good idea to check out http://factcheck.org/
Apparently our house is a Sears and Roebuck kit house which were very popular from 1906 to 1940. These houses are a great part of history and luckily Sears has archived their history for us:
http://www.searsarchives.com/homes/
We are going through the floor plans and have a few that we think are the plans for this house. Our kitchen was remodled by the previous owners and I’m sure some of the previous owners have had their share of work into it.
It is pretty cool to lear a bit of the history of your house though. When Brian and Ash bought their house down the street, they went to the courthouse and library to do research on it. I may have to do that myself! These PDFs are priceless though. Depending on what model house we have, Sears priced them from $1600-$2500. Wow.
http://hearnhappenings.com/
Cary and Jyll Hearn are now blogging! Cary was Brian’s Best Man at his wedding (and vice versa). They recently asked me to set a blog up for them – and eventually a gallery when i get a spare few minutes. Welcome to the blogosphere guys!
Now I realize that this website is probably not 100% accurate, but it gives you an idea of how your house stacks up against others near by. Zillow.com gives you a “goggle maps/earth view of the surrounding neighborhood and then many details on the house you are looking at. Give it a whirl!
I stumbled upon this today and thought I would give it a review. In Web 2.0 standards it gets a big fat “F+”! However, it does provide some interesting links and information. For instance did you know that someone named Ty Shaffer and I have something in common – we both like to make fun of Brian! Brian provides links to his friend’s webpages as well, although he is lacking paulandemily.com as well as ashandbrian.com (probably for a good reason though! 🙂 )
I think I originally saw this on LifeHacker.com (AWESOME site), but just now got around to looking at it. You input your current cell phone plan information, your usage information (or what you would like to use) and it finds your a service provider and plan that would work best for your needs! Emily and I are no longer in a cell phone contract and have been toying with the idea for a couple years to find something that would better our needs. I’ve been with SprintPCS for 10 years this year (non stop mind you! how many other people can claim that??) and while I do like them, they never have good deals on their cell phones, you can’t simply switch in a sim card to a different phone and have all your contacts etc. and their phone selectiong is either childish or too professional for my needs. Maybe after using this website, I’ll sick Emily on them like we did two years ago to get us a better deal. I’d really like to use their wireless internet on my HTC Apache (thanks dmoney!), but the plans for that service are ridiculous for those of us who would only use it occasionally – but don’t want to pay a per minute or per Kb rate. Playing around on the site showed me that I could probably save $240 a year by switching to T-Mobile Family plan.
Would you REALLY wear this in public?  Is your spreadsheet REALLY that important? If so you probably shouldn’t be working on it anyway because if you are in public you are probably on the wireless network at starbucks or the airport and someone is probably sniffing your packets anyway.