because not enough websites start with the letter “Z”
Posted in nerdliness on Mar 9th, 2008
Snap Shots, those popup windows that give a preview of the target page of a link, are to my thinking highly annoying. You can turn the feature off by visiting their FAQ and finding the link that leaves a cookie on your machine to disable the feature on any pages you visit. Unfortunately, if you [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Feb 21st, 2008
If you are like me, you have at least once in your email usage history, accidentally sent a mail that you either didn’t mean to send, or immediately wanted to recall to edit or attach or otherwise massage before sending. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a way to hold your outbound emails for [...]
Posted in elsewhere, nerdliness on Jan 25th, 2008
Excellent video of the process used to make a camera lens assembly. Makes you want to run out a buy a SLR camera and some lenses right away.
Posted in health on Jan 24th, 2008
At my eye exam yesterday I learned that my vision does in fact need some help. Moreover, I learned that my astigmatism has returned. Here’s my prescription:
Rx
Spherical
Cylindrical
Axis
OD
-0.50
-0.25
045
OS
+0.50
-0.75
010
The “OD” and “OS” indicate the eye. OD is an abbreviation for oculus dexter, which is Latin for right eye. OS is an abbreviation for [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Jan 23rd, 2008
Recently at work I added all the conference room calendars, for the building I work in, to my “Other Calendar” list in Outlook. This way I can click on the checkbox for a conference room and see its availability quickly; something useful when trying to schedule a meeting.
Today I wanted to add all the conference [...]
