From the e-mail:

That's right, this Thursday, July 26th is National Chili Dog Day and anyone and everyone gets a FREE Chili Dog (with any purchase) compliments of your friendly neighborhood Hard Times Cafe!

Did we say FREE??? Yep, we sure did. Just come in and buy anything and we'll give you a Chili Dog topped with cheese, onions and your choice of Chili!

Current Mood: ecstatic

World's Tallest Man Meets World's Smallest Man

 
The world's tallest man, BaoXishun, shakes hands with He Pingping, who only measures 2 feet and 5 inches, in Baotou, China.The world's tallest man has met one of the world's smallest in China.Bao Xishun, a 56 year-old herdsman from Inner Mongolia, is the world's tallest man and measures 7' 9" tall.Meanwhile, He Pingping is applying to be entered in the Guinness World Record as the world's shortest adult, standing at a mere 2' 4".• Read the orignal report on iTV.com.According to the organiser of the meeting, it was He's long-cherished dream to meet Bao.In March, Bao married saleswoman Xia Shujian, who stands a rather average 5' 6", after a global search for a suitable bride.They celebrated a traditional Mongolian wedding in the tomb of Kublai Khan on Thursday.Bao was confirmed as the world's tallest living man by Guinness World Records last year. He overtook the previous holder, Radhouane Charbib of Tunisia, by just 2 millimeters.

FOXNews.com - World's Tallest Man Meets World's Smallest Man - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News

Tags: news, oddity, recordsetting

This totally rocks. I wish XBox Live had more free content (particularly the network TV shows, even if ad-supported), but I'd definitely download some HD Disney movies!

BetaNews | Xbox Live to Offer Disney Films in HD

Tags: disney, movies, xbox, xboxlive

I'm an unpaid, unofficial Microsoft evangelist. Call me a fanboy or whatever, I just don't care about your opinion of me (but that's completely beside the point).

I'm extremely happy being on Vista Ultimate, I think it's a great operating system if you've got the machine to support it. Yes, I had to upgrade my laptop to 2G of RAM due to the development environments that I run. Big deal, well worth the $180 bucks.

I'm also enamored with IE7. Great browser, nice features, simplified interface.

But I gotta tell you, in just a few short hours of working with it I've fallen head-over-heels in love with Flock 0.9.0. The features I love most:

1. The search box and the auto-detection of search boxes. It found search boxes just about everywhere (except at YubNub, for some reason). [UPDATE: The Install YubNub page points to a Firefox extension that works great]
   
2. Integration with del.icio.us and flickr
   
3. The blog editor rocks and was what led me to open this LiveJournal. Spell checking! I love it.
4. The feed reader looks really nice. But three complaints:
1. Can't seem to make unread posts go away. A filter would be nice.
2. No clue where to go to see how often the feeds are updated.
3. Feed Collections (aka folders) always have their label in bold. My peripheral vision tells me that this means there are unread posts in the collection. But that's not the case.
5. My World totally rocks! Both inside the browser and in real life, by the way.

So, go get Flock!

Blogged with Flock

Tags: browsers, flock, social web

Listened to a great CD on the drive to work this morning. The speaker made the following statement:


And this morning's Success Daily e-mail contained the following quote to go right along with that CD:

"No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Tags: failure, never quit, success
Current Mood: excited