U

I do not want to stay home and do the U word tonight.

New location

I am now living in beautiful sunny San Diego.  It's been raining since I got here!

More to come...

In San Diego...

Just took possession of my new residence in San Diego last weekend.
Will be going through a few weeks of moving and general chaos, I
suppose. So far everything seems to be working out nicely though.
There are always surprises.

I will be back up in the Bay Area later this week.

redchilimerchandise has no inventory

We are relocating the store, so the inventory is offline for a couple of weeks.

I will post another update about the store when everything is available again. Please come back and visit again! And buy lots of things!

A nice cloudy day on Mars

Check out this interesting article in Astrobiology Magazine for some interesting cloud photos.

How money works

How money works. Also how to exploit the world. In German.

(Fake) Steve quote of the day

"Yeah yeah, whatever, look, don't you have to fly over to Freedonia and give out some vaccines or something?"

Fake Steve says it's not a good idea to install Vista quite yet.

X/HTML5 vs. XHTML 2

The X/HTML5 proposal discourages the use of XML on the web? I've been using it for years. Talk about a step backwards.

Anyway this is an interesting review of the two proposed standards, by Vlad Alexander.

Huh what

11AM The Customer Is Always Right

Old guy: Small fish and chips.
Italian vendor: The fish aren't ready -- 10 minutes.
Old guy: What? I'm very deaf.
Italian vendor: The fish aren't ready -- 10 minutes!
Old guy: What? I can't hear you.
Italian vendor: No fish! Have a look here [points to other menu items].
Old guy: I can't see so well. Just get me a fish and chips.
Italian vendor: No fish!
Old guy: Why are you talking to me?! I can't hear well! Just get me a fish.
Italian vendor: No fish!
Old guy: Are you stupid? I'm deaf and nearly blind, just get me a fish and chips! God, you'd think you didn't have any fish!

Edinburgh, Scotland
United Kingdom

via Overheard in the Office, Feb 1, 2007