At Gnomedex a few weeks back, a couple of friends introduced me to “Lazy Man’s Margaritas” which were quite tasty: Equal parts: * Tequila, 100% agave (don’t use the cheap stuff) * Odwalla Summertime Lime Served over ice, these babies are just awesome. Perfect for when you’re on-the-go.
Very late to the portable audio party, I finally broke down and bought the Creative Zen Touch 20GB. It just arrived from Amazon tonight and I’ve been checking it out while watching the Red Sox beat the Yankees. So far it seems very solid. With USB 2.0, the songs copy from my PC really fast and the audio quality is surprisingly good. I couldn’t decide between an iPod or something else, finally choosing the Zen Touch after reading some good reviews. The iPods are really cool and the price didn’t scare me off, but I’m mostly a Windows users and…
Yesterday in the season finale for the IRL racing series, Tony Kanaan finished second, celebrated his first series championship, and set a record by finishing every single lap in every race the IRL ran this year. Apparently this has never been accomplished in any of the major racing series: Kanaan made it through 16 races http://ugateamunited.com/online/aciphex/ over nine months for Andretti Green Racing without an accident, engine failure or even a flat tire. He is the first driver in any major series to complete every lap. (Yahoo! Sports) Don’t forget, IRL is coming to the SF Bay Area next year.…
Eric Meyer has been working on a slide show format that uses XHTML, Javascript, and CSS. The software is called S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System and it looks like a promising alternative to PowerPoint or other presentation software. S5 presentations require only a recent browser for display. The look and feel is only limited by what you can do with XHTML and CSS (which is to say, it’s not that limited). Check out the introductory slide show for a example of what’s possible.
Google just launched an SMS service for retrieving search results from a mobile phone. Basically you send specific messages to the number 46645 (GOOGL on most phones). You can do some specific searches like businesses, people, Froogle prices, and word definitions. You can also do normal searches with snippets returned to your phone. I tried this on my Treo 600 and it worked pretty well, although the messages returned arrived out of order. (Not sure whether this is Google’s or Sprint’s issue.) They number the messages (“1 of 2” and “2 of 2” in this case), so arriving out of…