Cool, I just activated a new Gmail account.
Now I need to decide just what I’ll use it for as I’m not really inclined to use it for my blog email or for my main personal email.
It was very slick at autofilling the Gmail address of my benefactor. It only took, I think, two characters and there it was. Of course, zombyboy is a unique name and he is a good guy! Thanks!
Apparently some folks are upset that Time Magazine mentioned the long known location of cheney’s hiding place.
Head over to Sadly, No! for commentary, links and this cool Flash report (6 MB).
Tegan is a charter member of the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame which is opening this week. She attended the “Gala premier opening” and has written a preview for us. A couple of snippets:
Ok, overall first impressions: Crowded, but not too crowded. Literally every time you turned around, there was something new to look at. I was suffering from “oooooh! Shiny thing!” syndrome, big-time.
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Disappointments. Not many… There was as strong a focus on books and magazines as on TV and movies, but comic books were underrepresented.
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And the Experience Music Project building is still the ugliest building in Seattle, even if what’s inside it is pretty cool.
A lot of folks consider this building ugly and it certainly does wrench at one’s sense of what is right when you look at it. As time goes by, though, I’ve found it to be much more interesting then just another box and I suspect that much of the inside ambience is due to the external shell creating internal spaces with interesting curved shapes.
Hey, sorry to digress. Go read the rest of Tegan’s review.
I just got a bunch of spam in Dean’s World trackbacks.
I’d never seen that before but I guess it’s inevitable.
And so it begins. (Sigh)
Dean, thanks for the heads up!
There was a brief mention on Marketplace today of the increasing numbers of folks using various online banking services. I frequently check my account balances and move funds between accounts. It is very handy.
There are some things I do not do. For instance, I do not use the online bill payer service. Sure, it is very easy to use. Certainly much easier then the telephone based bill paying service that I tried out 20 years ago and much easier than a version on online bill paying I tried 10 or so years ago.
The reason I do not use it is simple. It is not as reliable and timely at getting my payment posted to the account of my creditor as putting a check in the mail. That is to say that the banks, at least my bank, are not making use of the technology at hand to provide the service. It should be trivial to mail the check or, best, post to my creditor’s account within one day.
My bank offers approximately 4-5 day service which includes the possibility that they won’t even mail a check for 4-5 days. Until they fix this I’ll keep buying stamps.