I’ve ordered from Newegg.com before and this is an interesting article with plenty of pictures following the process from receiving, inventorying, processing, and shipping.
An Inside Look of Newegg.com from AnandTech.com
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Deepest Sender – Blogging right from Firefox
I’ve been working on switching to Mozilla Firefox as my primary browser. More specifically, I’m switching to Firefox on the Mac (from Safari) as I’ve used Firefox on Linux and Windows since 2004. One of the nicest things about Firefox is the fact it has extension that add to the functionality. One extension I discovered today (and in fact, being used right now for this post) is Deepest Sender. This extension brings up a separate window with a prett decent WYSIWYG/HTML editor to write a post in and then sends it right to your blog.
Thanks Apple!
Today Apple bumped the clock speed of the MacBook Pro from 1.67 GHz to 1.83 GHz, the 1.83 GHz to 2.0 GHz and offered a 2.16 GHz upgrade option. The best part is that all orders will be upgraded to their replaced version for free. That means that my Mac Book Pro which was ordered as a 1.67 GHz will be shipped with a 2.0 GHz CPU. Now I don’t mind as much they pushed my ship date back from 2/13 to 2/15.
Update: They’ve moved it back to shipping on the 23rd. Bummer.
My wife the techie?
I love my wife, Becky. She is a died-in-the-wool throwback to an older era. It’s one of her more endeering qualities. Her favorite show growing up and still now is Little House on the Prarie and that she would probably be happier living in that day. She keeps a paper organizer in her car to track all the many things going on in her life and also writes most everything down on her wall calendar in the kitchen. Well, she has been looking for something better that she can keep with her at all times to make sure she doesn’t double-book an event. After a little discussion and a bit of research, we picked up a Palm Z22. It’s a cute little thing and she’s looking forward to giving it a spin.
Of course, beeing the good geek husband that I am, I made sure that it will work properly with iSync and that Palm Desktop will still work under Rosetta on the soon-to-arrive MacBook Pro. I’ve read that the iSync to Palm setup is not ideal, but it should be good enough to allow what she enters on the PDA to be put into iCal so I can see her schedule when I’m at work (and vice versa with my schedule synced to her PDA).
I’ll probably comment in a few days on how well it turns out (or not). Fortunately, I confirmed that Office Depot has a 14 day return policy so if it isn’t a satisfactory solution, we can take it back.
Not just another Monday morning
Alarm goes of at 5:00 AM just like it normally does during the week. I got ready and headed downstairs to gather my things and start my morning commute. When I went outside to grab the newspaper, I saw the rare but familiar sight of draped swatches of white on our lawn, trees, bushes, and light-post. Yup, somebody TP’d our house. It wasn’t a big deal and I wasn’t even upset. In fact, to be honest, they didn’t do a very thorough job. It took all of 3 minutes to clean up.
Of course, I wonder why we were targeted. We don’t really know anybody in the Jr. High-High School age range and certainly pray that I haven’t offended anybody in the neighborhood.
After I started to drive away, I saw a tree down the road had also gotten hit, so I guess our house was simply an easy target. Interestingly, we’re on a corner that gets its share of traffic so they had to have worked fast. That must be why it was so easy to clean up.
No harm. I hope they had fun.
Weight loss goal achieved
For the second year in a row, my pastor, several men from the church, and myself challenged each other to loose 10 pounds in 4 weeks. In addition to the obvious health and visual benefits to loosing the weight, we were each on the hook for $10 for each pound missed from the target. The final weigh-in was last night and while I was 169 it was 2 over what I should have been (I started at 177). Fortunately, two of the other guys weighed in earlier that evening prior to dinner so they spotted me the 2 pounds (they were 3.5 and 4 pounds heavier we the re-weighed themselves with me).
The interesting thing was unlike last year, all I really did was improve my diet. I cut out drinking and was more conscious of what I was eating (portions and food choices). I did start walking again at lunch along with my friends from work, Kristin and Sven. That is something I totally got out of the habit of after my friend George was laid off (along with the rest of RedZone studio).
When we did the "contest" last year, we did a second round for another 10, we’re not doing that again this year. Sure, I would like to loose 5 or so more pounds, but will do it at a slower rate.
What am I going to do to celebrate? Go out to eat of course! The kids are down at Kay’s for the three day weekend (for them) so Becky and I are going out tonight for Valentine’s day. Why deal with the crowds when you can just go 3 days early?
Google Earth
Google Earth is perhaps one of the best ways to waste quite a bit of time. You can zoom in on any point on earth and go sightseeing at all sorts of fun places. They have versions for both Windows and Mac. The best part, of course, is it’s free.
If you find anything fun, let me know.
Find out the value of your home
I was turned onto an interesting website to find out the value of a home as well as the surrounding homes in the neighborhood. Zillow.com uses an interface similar to Google maps but adds all sorts of information about home values, comps, and trends. I’ll have to keep this in mind if we ever look into moving.
Update: Fixed website name
Video: Inside a Secret Netflix Shipping Center
Must be a Netflix day. This video from my hometown CBS affiliate shows the shipping & receiving center for Netflix in So Cal. Pretty interesting. I can only hope the folks doing the processing get paid pretty well.
Added Netflix flicks to sidebar
I just added Alber Banks’ Netflix WordPress plugin to the sidebar. It is configured to show the two outstanding movies that Becky and I need to watch.