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Hep cats dig the Jive Dictionary

Don’t be unhep, truck on down to The Beatitude Dictionary of Jive and get your boots on.

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The non-fluffy side of the web

Sure, the web has a lot of fluff (with some of the very-fluffy listed here), but where do you go to get some real meat? Check out MKaku.org | Theoretical Physicist Dr. Michio Kaku, science &...

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What Did That Bloke Say?

Next time you see crocodile Dundee on TNT, make sure you have the Australian slang dictionary handy!

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Yo, you hip to what I’m laying down, dawg?

What? You say you don’t understand kids these days? Well pop on over to UrbanDictionary.com to get the skinny.

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Travel reference for the travel portion of your trip

Airlines often allow you to pick your seats when you’re buying your ticket… but how do you know if you should pick 16a or 27f?  Will there be in-seat power for your laptop?  Does your window seat...

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Some more travel tips

Ah, the joy of business class!  On the way back from Korea (more on that later) Paula and I were able to upgrade to business class.  When you’re dealing with a flight from Japan to San Francisco this...

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Want less Spam in your Hotmail account?

There’s a quick and easy step you can take: turn your junk e-mail filter from “Low” to “Enhanced”.  At the lowest level Hotmail will delete the known junk e-mail before it even lands in your account....

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S’bout time

I’ve been jealous of my coworkers in Redmond for a while because the Seattle-area has a very cool system for monitoring traffic status.  It now seems that the bay area may finally be catching up....

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MSN Search as a dictionary

While at the 2nd annual MSN Butterfly Tour the topic came up of using search to look up the definition of words.  I mentioned to the testers that it can be done by using the “define” keyword.  For...

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A tip for smugmug users – timeline

When I made the choice between smugmug and Phanfare one thing I found I missed was the ability to filter my pictures by year taken.  To my delight, smugmug added this feature shortly after I joined....

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