Inspired by posts by both Tracy and Matthew , I’ve decided to continue to drink soda at an alarming rate – damn the torpedoes!

Ballmer: I want to make sure [a user] can’t get through … an online experience without hitting a Microsoft ad," he said. Oh goody.

Well, it looks like I can stop wasting money on Lagavulin. Introducing the AWOL Machine AWOL, which is an acronym for Alcohol With Out Liquid™, is the brainchild of 30 year old Dominic Simler, who discovered that by mixing spirits with pure oxygen, a cloudy alcohol vapour can be created which can be either snorted or inhaled.

The latest from Good Experience bq.. By any traditional business metric, Google has succeeded wildly. Yet the reason for Google’s success is anything but traditional. Google’s approach to business is simple, a single rule that – if applied consistently across all channels, interfaces, and products – will yield tremendous results: Create a good customer experience.

I just had my eyebrows waxed. Honest. Could I be any more metro?

Picked up Zim today after a month of boarder training – essentially doggy boot camp. We spent two hours with the trainer, who trained us how to continue training him. Pretty amazing what she’s done with him. She walked him through a room full of other dogs and he barely took his eyes off her. She yelled for him to “come!” from across the room and he ran up and sat 1 foot from her – waiting.

It occurred to me just now that there’s something not quite right about keeping one’s poetry in a database.

Spent the first part of the evening watching School of Rock with Jess and it was even better the second time. I immediately had a fit of rock-n-roll nostalgia and ran out straight away to the nearest shop to replace a few of the vinyl records I’d worn out back in the early eighties. AC/DC’s Back in Black and Highway to Hell along with an old collection of tunes by The Clash.

It seems that T.M. and I regularly have very funny conversations. He’s just much better at recognizing them, picking them up, polishing and posting them Never thought I’d end up as someone’s straight man!

During my morning ritual, the folks who work below the men’s room in our office building can be heard downstairs – clearly. Today’s snippet… Voice One: “Think I’ll shave my head.” Voice Two: “Why?” Voice One: “I don’t know.”

As a huge fan of the Coen brothers, I expect a lot from each new movie. Intolerable Cruelty wasn’t the best Coen film, but a mediocre Coen movie beats the crap out of most “good” movies. A few reasons to enjoy the movie… Catherine Zeta-Jones George Clooney’s Teeth Asthma Inhaler Scene Catherine Zeta-Jones Quick, fairly sharp dialog between beautiful people is always fun.

According to the Polaroid FAQ and contrary to what the OutKast song suggests, you really shouldn’t shake your polaroids. The best way to ensure a perfectly developed image is to simply lay the picture on a flat surface immediately after it exits the camera. Shield it from the wind and avoid bending, twisting, or otherwise disturbing it during development. Okay fine, but it’s not nearly as much fun that way.