I just realized that I forgot to call my sister and wish her a happy birthday. She's my only sibling and I should have done so. Today (err yesterday now) was busy, setup for the fair at 8 am, helping friends move into thier new apt from 10am to 1pm, then immediately back to the fair to take down the tables and chairs I put up... then realized I missed my family get together that I was assigned to bring dessert to... then hurrying to get to my place because I had 7 people invited over to have a LAN Counter Strike party. At one point I told myself I was gonna stop playing and call her... but I forgot. You should always do something immediately when you think of it... rather than trying to say, "i'll remember it later"... then the time flew by... infact, I had a thought to try something out with a friend, and so I called his place to talk to him about it... not realizing that it was minutes shy of midnight, and woke his family with a 3 month old baby.... and then after playing somemore... now remembered that I'm an idiot for not calling my sis.

Today my church hosted a community Safety Awareness Fair. The local police and firemen were there, along with other safety related groups like neighborhood watch and ham radio people.

So I was there this morning setting up chairs and tables for the different groups and I sliced my finger on a table. It wasn't that bad, but I immediately had an ambulence working offering me to bandage it up... I thought it was a little overboard to accept the offer so I declined.

This photo is crazy cool. It captures all the city lights from all over the planet.
[I've been a kungfoo junkie]

PBS has a "tool" they call Map Blaster. You can use the Map Blaster to see the damage a nuclear blast would do to your home, or another location. It gives a detail of far spread the damage would be, and to what extend... It's quite nice, and yet desturbing. [via kungfoo]

Nutshell is little (read: 70k download) app that is an add-on to IE 5.5+ that is a special search box that can search google.com, amazon.com, dictionary.com, IMDB, and daypop. This is cool.

I have a custom built start page at home which has links to all of the above, except for daypop. But using this app intergrated with the browser is nice. Props to the inventor.

This may be old news to some of you but Microsoft is developing a line of devices they call Mira devices.

Mira devices appear to be portable flat screen monitors that are also touchpads. These devices will run off of Windows CE, and be linked to a base computer running Windows XP, you can carry them anywhere in the house and control the base computer.

As the article mentions, you can pop a DVD into your computer and then, via the Mira, take the movie into anyroom to watch it. You could even take the movie with you while getting something in the kitchen.

This cool Flash App let's you create a flash image of yourself. It's not really a mugshot, but like a drawing you see of the Unibomber when there wasn't a real photo of him, just some vauge descriptions. Here's the best I could make of myself with limited time. I look like a regular murder suspect. [via funjunkie in the uk]

Check it out at his site, link. PS. Don't forget to hover.

It's late and I've been up working on eBOREDS.com code.

I also thought I'd mention that it's really wierd to watch an episode of Survivor Marquesas, and then immediately throw in the DVD of Cast Away. It just is.

Why have I not posted anything new in the past 11 days? Could it be my new subscription to Netflix? Possibly. But I recently did something kind of cool using my new found JavaScript skills.

Next to the date of each blog entry there is a little < image. This image is linked to a URL that can be used to link directly to a particular blog entry. I believe the term for this sorta thing is "permalink".

Well, before today, when you clicked on the link your browser would go to the new URL, and then you could copy the URL out of the address bar on your web browser, well now with my JS enhancement when you click on the image you get a little confirmation window that asks you if you want the URL to be automatically copied into your clipboard.

The script also degrades nicely for browsers that don't support the clipboard functionality (read: all non-IE browsers) giving them a popup window with the URL displayed for them to copy.

Joel IM'd me a link to a story about a US Patent that was issued for a method of exercising a cat. The patent claims that cats by nature are very hard to get to do any form of exercise, and by using a laser pointer you can overcome this natural lethargicness.

Here's some of the actual text from the patent:

Thanks Joel. [via Joel a.k.a. the AbPuncher]