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While escorting a lady friend back to her car in downtown Boulder, CO I noticed a car with it's lights on. My friend commented that she remembered seeing the lights left on when she left to join me at a coffee shop some 2 hours earlier.

RIP funny man - "CNN - George Carlin, the influential comedian whose routines used profanity, scatology and absurdity to point out the silliness and hypocrisy of human life, has died. He was 71."

Found this cute video on MySpace video of all places, them Huskies are pretty smart especially when it comes things food related!

Faster, safer and smarter than Firefox 2 that is. June 17 was download Firefox 3 day. It got off to a bit of a piss poor start as yours truly attempted to download this brand spanky new version of our favorite browser only to discover a website that had clearly shat the proverbial bed due to the rest of the world and their mother attempting to do the same thing.

Just spent the best part of half an hour getting a buddies supposedly up to date Dell XP lappy connected to my Wi-fi network. I'm running a secure WI-FI network using the WPA2 protocol.

The new Iphone is here, not really new more of an evolution than revolution. In the bottom line department the new iPhone is gonna be 1/2 the cost just $199 compared to the $400 I paid for the 8 gig model, ouch (the price of early adoption). The data rate when you're not on wifi is now 3G as apposed to slow 56k pokey Edge so 1700kbps vs the 200kbos of edge. GPS is now built in also a nice feature.

I bought a pair of Logitech X-240 computer speakers at a yard sale some time ago. They sit mainly unused in my living room but when I have on occasion hooked em' up to my laptop I am left smiling. Good bass and nice mid/highs too. For $40 or so I think you can't go wrong, big sound for little moolah. Below is a link to buy them on Amazon. The model below is newer than my pair, has a nice dock that you can attach your mp3 player or ipod to (if you have an ipod :)

My trusty Linksys WRT54GL router is modded with the DD-WRT firmware. This tweak supposedly turns you $60 router into a $600 router by adding certain features such as the ability to run the router as a hot spot device for an internet cafe, the ability to turn up the power and lots of other goodies.

I was searching for Spring Clean-up details 2008 and after quite a bit of searching and frustration I came across the info - here it is. Happy leaf clean-up & hopefully this will be easier to find than html page that's presently hard to find.

Spring Clean-up begins Monday, April 28

For more information about possible changes to Spring Clean-up, visit the city's Environmental Affairs Web site at

While some of us were attempting tele turns on a wind swept hill west of Nederland CO, others were fighting the good fight and protesting our favorite church. Here is some footage shot at the Boulder protest. Boulder, Co is known for its Phd educated homeless population and below we see "Bob the Hobo" school us in the ways of Scientology aka Co$: (Note the Scientologist on the other side of the street filming the protesters filming him)