Web link of note: 18 Carat Gold Cell Phones
(At http://www.vertu.com)

I ran some errands during lunch today. Before we got back to the car I decided I really wanted coffee. Since I had $3 and change left over from lunch I figured that would be just enough…

… untill I realized I either lost my change or miscounted… which was AFTER I ordered the coffee!

After bumming all of Brian’s spare change and my change I had about $2.35… still $1 short. The girl behind the counter decided to cut me a deal then and gave me the coffee for that much.

I am such a bum. Maybe if it wsa just a regular coffee I wouldn’t feel like such a loser. I just bummed a double vanilla latte.

Web link of note: Nokia Chinese Input Phone
(At http://nokia-asia.com/nokia/0,%C2%B8,48860,00.html)

Sean turned me on to this. I guess he got the recipe from a buddy of his at work.

The idea is to simply help cleanse your colon and digestive track while replacing a meal (preferrably breakfast) with something a bit more healthy. You get all the fiber you need, lose a little weight, and have a healthier colon, right? Well yeah it seems to work out that way so far. I’ve got at least Brian and Rand turned on to this. Sean says he’s got Grandma drinking it too.

How’s it going so far? Pretty well. For the first couple days you will turn into a methane plant. Every couple hours a nice puff. They are dry puffs! No squirts. Right away though you do notice a nice “firming” effect. It can only be described as “logs.”

A few pieces of advice:

I think this one came as a recommendation from a friend’s roomate’s ex-roomate’s co-worker who works at 24hr Fitness… so it must be a good idea right?

I was told that if you want to lose weight REAL FAST… eat nothing but Tuna and drink water and juice. Wait a second, that sounds an aweful lot like the Atkins diet huh? I’m sure I’m missing something but anything else and it just wouldn’t sound interesting anymore right?

Just out of stupid curiousity, I wondered how many day I could go on this diet. 2 days! Tuna first thing in the morning can make you feel plenty sick. Think of a hangover except you just don’t puke.

My cat has never loved me more.

I need to find whoever wrote EndOfWorld and buy him a beer… or 10.

I think breaking off from the rest of the U.S. and hanging out with Hawaii is a good idea… I don’t know about Alaska though.

Web link of note: Linksys Open Source
(At http://www.linksys.com/support/gpl.asp)

After a month of no blogging I came across this article by David Sims… Interesting blog article that points out how strange it was that the #1 result of a Google search for Michael Eisner (Disney CEO) was… a blog entry. Well this was May 2002. Now in November 2004 the same link is #4… still a very impressive ranking.

He quotes another guy as saying bloggers are “are a highly intelligent lot.” He agrees with my belief that Google is paying alot of attention to blogs… which I think is a great thing. It gives the every day Joe a bit of a voice on the Internet and weakens the news media a bit, but not nearly enough.

I wonder how much more attention Google really does pay to blogs… and if they pay more attention to their Blogger community than others. I don’t think that it explains why results tend to be more technical than not (for example, a search for “sniffing” returns results related to network analysis, not sniffing glue. There are plenty of bored teenagers out there writing mindless blogs about.. crap… I guess maybe kids these days don’t sniff glue anymore?

What am I getting at? I don’t even know anymore.