Cone Pizza!
Originally uploaded by superlocal.

I'm not sure if pizza in a cone is strange, but what toppings! Hawaiian, Hot Spicy Chicken, Bulgogi, and something I can't read in the bottom right... Oh, and of course Supreme Cone!

A picture's worth a thousand words
With contact pictures in Gmail, you can pick ones for yourself, see which ones your friends have chosen, and set certain pictures to show up for specific people in your Gmail account. Best of all, you can even send picture suggestions to your friends. Learn more

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I concocted a scheme where I would subscribe to flickr feeds with enclosures and use the folders that it creates to seed the Microsoft Power Toy Wallpaper Changer with those photos for a fun, constantly changing wallpaper. Clearly I spent too much time thinking about it, and not enough time searching for someone else's application that already does this for me:

John's Background Switcher periodically changes the background image on your computer (like every hour or every day).

[ John's Adventures: John's Background Switcher ]

Integrated right in the application is:

You can use Flickr (almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world) - you can choose to select pictures by person, tags, sets or just plain random and there are a host of options to narrow down the pictures and increase the quality of those chosen. You never know what you're going to get next!

I recommend the Flickr Group Domokun Lovers.

$499

[ How much is too much for a game console? - Games - MSNBC.com ]

After years of development this feature packed editor is waiting for you. For the impatient, go directly to the download page. For the curious, read the announcement. Happy Vimming!

[ welcome home : vim online ]

Oddly it looks like vim 6.3, but tons of new goodies await:

NEW FEATURES

Vim script enhancements

Spell checking

Omni completion

MzScheme interface

Printing multi-byte text

Tab pages

Undo branches

Extended Unicode support

More highlighting

Translated manual pages

Internal grep

Scroll back in messages

Cursor past end of the line

POSIX compatibility

Debugger support

Remote file explorer

Define an operator

Mapping to an expression

Visual and Select mode mappings

Location list

Various new items

[ :help version7 ]

Though it appears that vimdoc isn't up to date on the v7 help.

Harpers Ferry is a town located in Jefferson County, West Virginia, situated on the banks of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers where the U.S. states of Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia meet. The town is surrounded by mountains and is at the bottom of a ravine created by the two rivers. The town is best known historically for John Brown's raid on the Armory in 1859. The town was in Virginia at the time of the raid; West Virginia was created in 1863. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 307.

[ Harpers Ferry, West Virginia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ]

I love Harper's Ferry. I have always had very fond memories, and I think it is a lovely place to visit. Most of the town is a National Historic Park and is a great place to learn more about the Civil War, though there is more to the town than that. Harper's Ferry is located where West Virginia, Virginia, and Maryland all meet. One of my favorite hikes is on the Maryland side in Maryland Heights. I'm not sure if I'm as healthy as I once was, and if I should attempt this hike in my current condition, but I hope to make this hike again if only for the stunning view. The view from Jefferson Rock is also quite nice, and that hike I am pretty sure I can make.

The inaugural Fiesta Asia event will take place on May 6, 2006 and is free and open to the public. This kick-off event will feature an exciting array of attractions including an open market filled with an assortment of Asian merchandise, live performances, Pan-Asian cuisine, interactive displays, Manga design competition, and much more. The May 6th event precedes a month-long series of activities in venues located in DC metro area.

[ Fiesta Asia - 2006 National Asian Heritage Festival - Washington, DC ]

Ali went last year and said it was pretty cool.

Update: Then Yaty pointed out that Today was the 6th, not tomorrow as Ali claimed... Perhaps next year.

In a meeting today someone mentioned the need for a calendar of sorts. I immediatly thought of a Life Hacker post I had seen recently about MonoCalendar:

If iCal existed for Windows, I would recommend using that before MonoCalendar. On the other hand, since it currently does not exist for many systems, it is an alternative to consider, and furthermore it is an alternative that is Free Software.

[ MonoCalendar ]

Until Vista arrives, this is likely the best we'll see.

CIO Magazine reports that A9 and Amazon are switching from Google to Microsoft for their search. Bet it is less than cheap for them... That reminds me, A9 had that map with the photos thing, and when it launched there was no Washington, DC. I expect that because my office is 2-3 blocks from the Whitehouse that they wouldn't want to photo it anyway. Guess again:

Creepy, eh?

Oddly enough there are still no photos that I can find of the Whitehouse, or an odd "pentagon shaped" area just across the river...

I still can't really determine the usefullness of this site. Things change rapidly in the city, and these photos don't even show the building that went up next to my office, yet people moved in months ago.

A comedian emerges as the Edward R. Murrow of our day.

[ Thank You Stephen Colbert. ]

Ain't that the truth...

If you don't know what the fuss is all about, then check out this you tubed CSPAN coverage of Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondents' Dinner:

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3

Props to Sajous.

Wrote a nifty piece of DHTML that does a gallery pop-up in a DHTML div instead of a separate window. I'm sure I saw this in some on-line gallery, and it seems like a great way to do things, now that pop-ups are practically verboten. Nifty, that is, until I pulled it up in IE6. I haven't done a ton of DHTML in years, and clearly I forgot what a pain cross-browser issues are. Until I had to determine the size of the browser:

There are some constants available that give the document area of the window that is available for writing to. These will not be available until after the document has loaded and the method used for referencing them is browser specific. ... This is a little messy because the clientHeight/Width properties can mean different things in different browsers, and even different things in the same browser, depending on whether the document type declaration triggers the browser's strict mode or quirks mode.

[ JavaScript tutorial - Window size and scrolling ]

Ugh. Worst of all, I don't even want to do this from JavaScript, but from CSS. Since Microsoft has been kind enough to provide CSS expressions, I came up with this super-kludge for making the div full size under (what I believe should be) all circumstances:

#id {
    width: 99%;
    height: 99%;
    _width: expression((typeof( window.innerWidth ) == 'number'?window.innerWidth:(document.documentElement && ( document.documentElement.clientWidth || document.documentElement.clientHeight)?document.documentElement.clientWidth:(document.body && ( document.body.clientWidth || document.body.clientHeight ) ?document.body.clientWidth:"100%"))));
    _height: expression((typeof( window.innerHeight ) == 'number'?window.innerHeight:(document.documentElement && ( document.documentElement.clientHeight || document.documentElement.clientHeight)?document.documentElement.clientHeight:(document.body && ( document.body.clientHeight || document.body.clientHeight ) ?document.body.clientHeight:"100%"))));
}

I think this is likely super-over-kill, but it does work. Oh, and why 99%? 100% will pull up scroll bars on the size and bottom in some browsers (IE7b2 for sure...). And why _width? IE6 ignores the _ and treats _width as width (most "real" browsers ignore these rules). And why is the id "id"? It isn't really, but why use my real code without alteration first?

TiVo announced a while back that I'd be able to take my TiVoed programs "to go". What does that mean? Not much, apparently. I only have 1 TiVo, so I can't transfer between them. I don't have a laptop, so I guess I can use the desktop software to watch TiVo on my PC, but that's not going very far. I don't wish to burn things on DVD enough to purchase their partner's DVD burn kit. I really just want to download the video to my PSP or Yaty's iPod.

Enter DirectShow Dump:

DirectShow Dump is a debugging App that allows you to extract (into a file) what the output of a DirectShow filter is. It is easy to use, employs asynchronous I/O for optimal performance and can batch-process files.

[ DirectShow Dump ]

Since the TiVo series 2 can copy video to my PC and store it as a modified MPEG-2 file, with some sort of DRM encryption, but allow for playback through WindowsMedia 10 and "DirectShow", it wasn't too difficult to pipe that to an unencrypted file (not too difficult for me at least... ;)). Then I sync that file via my PSP Media Manager, which I purchased before realizing that PSP Video 9 existed, and voilà! I truly have TiVo To Go!

I knew that the famous Chief Powhatan and his daughter Pocahontas were from (what is now called) Virginia, but I never knew quite where, or if any of their people were still around, much less if there was a sovereign nation inside of my state. Apparently there is such a place, The Pamunkey Reservation, and it's west of Richmond near central King William County, and this historically important people still dwell there.