Flickr has a page that you can forever reload and see pics that have been marked "interesting" from the past 7 days. Page after page after page of seriously good photography and interesting views of the world.

This is possibly the proper replacement for Life magazine. I just wish the stories were better...

Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.

[ Audacity: Free Audio Editor and Recorder ]

Thanks Nate!

With ten minutes of cleanup, you can use a DTS package generated by SQL Server 2000 within the Visual Studio .NET framework. You'll have all the benefits of running in the Visual Studio .NET framework, and be able to programmatically control the behavior of the DTS package. This article will get you there quickly while navigating a path that isn't always straight forward.

[ How to run a DTS VB package in the .NET framework ]

This will, however, require some serious skillz to maintain these scripts if any changes need to be made...

Update: Gruskada points out that it is not really SQL Server 2003, except in my heart...

But yummy:

Smoked Chicken Chile Relleno– Poblano pepper stuffed with smoked chicken, chopped pecans, apricots, Jack cheese and raisins, with green chile mole, roasted tomato cream, Tejas rice and black beans. 9.95

[ Welcome to Z'tejas! ]

Headed to Texas next week, and still have some birthday money left over, so that means buy some entertainment:

$a(B000BLFE9K,) $a(B000CR76V2,) $a(B00068O278,)

So even though I'm away from family and home, I should at least not be so bored...

Spring in DC has arrived!

The 2006 festival marks the 94th celebration of the original gift of the 3,000 cherry trees from the city of Tokyo to the people of Washington, DC in 1912. Come and enjoy the spirit of the season.

[ Official Website of the National Cherry Blossom Festival - Washington, DC ]

This year I hope to see some of it.

Welcome to the Complete CSS Guide, a reference to every aspect of cascading style sheets. If you need help learning CSS or if you're looking for info about selectors, properties and all the other aspects of cascading style sheets, this is the place.

[ Complete CSS Guide - Cascading style sheets reference - Contents ]

These guys have done a real bang-up job. I still am looking for the ultimate reference, but this is a great way to learn CSS.

If you're sitting in an airport lounge halfway across the world and you're itching to listen to one of your favorite tracks at home, you can. As Orb puts it, it's "home entertainment without the home."

[ Mobile Media Without Limits ]

Audio, video, photos, what about my Tivo? If this could pull from my Tivo and stream to my phone, we'd really be talking.

I love Nintendo!

Iwata also revealed for the first time that a new game called The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass would be released for Nintendo DS later this year.

[ Nintendo.com News : Nintendo President Challenges Developers To Create Bold New Games ]

Video here:

Kevin was typing passwords in and couldn't determine where a particular X came from. It looked different than the other X in the same password. This prompted the following research:

	Arial Unicode MS	Anonymous
Latin Capital Letter X	X	X
Latin Small Letter x	x	x
Greek Capital Letter Chi	Χ	Χ
Greek Small Letter Chi	χ	χ
Cyrillic Capital Letter Ha	Х	Х
Cyrillic Small Letter Ha	х	х
Tibetan Sign Rdel Nag Gcig	༝	༝
Roman Numeral Ten	Ⅹ	Ⅹ
Small Roman Numeral Ten	ⅹ	ⅹ
Hangzhou Numeral Four	〤	〤
Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter X	Ｘ	Ｘ
Fullwidth Latin Small Letter x	ｘ	ｘ
Box Drawings Light Diagonal Cross	╳	╳
Saltire	╳	╳
Multiplication X	✕	✕

In the end the culprit was "Multiplication X", but I have no idea how anyone typed that in...

One of our readers asks, "When did Spring start?"

Well, Ms. Yasir of Alexandria, Virginia, it seems that is a more complicated question than one might think.

Shouldn't spring always start the same exact second every year?

While it’s true that we’ve traditionally celebrated the beginning of spring on March 21, astronomers and calendar manufacturers alike now say that the spring season starts one day earlier, March 20, in all time zones in North America. Unheard of? Not if you look at the statistics. In fact, did you know that during the 20th Century, March 21 was actually the exception rather than the rule?

[ SPACE.com ]

And how do they figure all this stuff out? Math? Apparently it has its uses...

I love these little cups.

I keep meaning to pick up more espresso cups for my collection, I just never have the time (or funds) these days.

One day I hope to have the time and money to buy all of the cute little espresso cups that I can find. *sigh*, one can dream...

This may be it:

Mega Man is on a quest to restore peace in the world after Dr. Wily takes control of several robots in hopes to rule the planet. Completely re-designed for the PSP™ system with new bosses and puzzles to master, Mega Man Powered Up is the only action platformer that lets gamers create their own levels and share with friends.

[ Capcom: Mega Man Powered Up (PSP) ]

Although I had been playing quite a bit of Untold Legends, the other 2 games I picked up (Prince of Persia and Death Jr.) haven't held my interest. This, however, should. A great blast from the past, this cartridge includes the original game and what is essentially the same game but with an all new engine that plays 2-D but is totally 3-D. It now has extra in-engine cinematics that help the story, and with full voice overs. Well done, Capcom, I expect many eager developers to get their MCP because of you...

The simplest way to create a glossary is to type your glossary by hand at the end of your document. Word has no built-in method of creating a glossary automatically, but you can use hyperlinks or the Table of Authorities functionality to create a glossary for one or more documents.

[ Microsoft Word Help FAQ. How to create a glossary in Microsoft Word ]

This article was certainly helpful. Why on earth is there no built-in glossary functionality in Word? What is in the bloat then?