August 2008
148 posts
Watched "Titan A.E." on Hulu →
Teens seek a ship that may save mankind. Animated.
Last watched: August 31, 2008 Added: March 11, 2008 Air date: June 16, 2000 Duration: 1:34:59 Rating: 4.6 / 5.0
Watched "Naked Gun 2 & 1/2: The Smell of Fear" on... →
Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) loves a mystery. Why are we here? Is there life after sex? Yes, Drebin tackles the big issues - and the biggest of all is how to stop devious Quentin…
Listened to "Party Ben – Somebody Rock Me (The... →
Watched "Burn Notice: Dead Drop (s1 | e11)" on... →
Michael agrees to help two young women get out from under a blackmail scheme in which they are being forced to smuggle heroin. At the same time, Michael tries to arrange a meeting…
Watched "Burn Notice: Loose Ends (s1 | e12)" on... →
Michael must work his underworld contacts in Miami to rescue Sam who’s being held hostage by a former Special Forces unit involved in heroin smuggling. At the same time he must…
Watched "Burn Notice: False Flag (s1 | e10)" on... →
Michael comes to the aid of a woman whose estranged husband has disappeared with her son. He tracks down the husband, and finds himself matched against an opponent just as skilled…
Watched "Jumanji" on Hulu →
A mysterious game transports its players to the jungles of Jumanji! Thrilling effects!
Last watched: August 30, 2008 Added: August 28, 2008 Air date: December 15, 1995 Duration:…
Watched "Burn Notice: Wanted Man (s1 | e8)" on... →
When a hapless hotel employee is framed for the theft of a multi-million dollar brooch, Michael must trick the hotel’s owner into moving the hidden jewel in order to expose him as…
Listened to "Live – Lightning Crashes" →
Listened to "Nirvana – Drain You" →
Listened to "Tracy Chapman – Fast Car" →
Listened to "Nirvana – 08 Lithium" →
Voted on "Don't Talk to Me About Limits" at... →
If you look at any one of the computers that I”ve bought with my own money over the past twelve years, you’ll see a specific design mission that triggered each of those purchase decisions. …
Voted on "The Contention-Proof Case Accept Button"... →
The case accept button is a handy thing. It shows up on queue views to allow members of that queue to mass-accept cases (actually, in the Agent Console it shows up in the Mass Action dropdown…
Voted on "Moderating an Ideas Community" at... →
We are often asked, how many people does it take to manage and moderate an Ideas community. Obviously the answer to that question is going to depend on the size of the community and the…
Shared "Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 launches- new... →
Internet Explorer 8 beta launched today and its new features promise to take the browser to new standards of user friendliness and safety. I was part of a live online demo (Live…
“Apparently, Popeyes was not originally named after the lovable cartoon sailor,...”
– Popeyes Branding and Naming Moves Upscale (via feedly)
Shared "Pakistan Sets Floor on Stock Prices" on... →
Shared by NY
nice. way to shut down a market.
Those looking for absurd government manipulation can find it here: Pakistan Sets Floor on Stock Prices to Stop Plunge. Pakistan set a floor…
Shared "We Need To Kill The Business Card Once And... →
The business card needs to die, and everyone knows it. They’re clumsy, easy to lose, and virtually useless as one of the last bits of information that we pass non-digitally (they kill…
Listened to "The Beautiful South – Don't Marry Her... →
Listened to "The Beautiful South – Woman in the... →
Watched "The Simpsons: New Jr. Executive" on Hulu →
Homer is promoted to new Jr. Executive.
Last watched: August 29, 2008 Added: August 01, 2008 Air date: October 18, 1990 Duration: 00:55 Rating: 4.3 / 5.0
Watched "Family Guy: Mustache Dad" on Hulu →
Peter describes how the world will be different now that he wears a mustache.
Last watched: August 29, 2008 Added: August 02, 2008 Air date: January 13, 2008 Duration: 00:52 Rating:…
Watched "Burn Notice: Broken Rules (s1 | e7)" on... →
Michael must join a ruthless criminal organization to save a local store owner.
Last watched: August 29, 2008 Added: June 11, 2008 Air date: August 09, 2007 Duration: 42:39 Rating:…
Watched "The Simpsons: Hiring Karl" on Hulu →
Karl gets Homer to hire him.
Last watched: August 29, 2008 Added: August 01, 2008 Air date: October 18, 1990 Duration: 01:06 Rating: 5.0 / 5.0
Watched "The Simpsons: Homer Gets the Keys" on... →
Homer is given the key to the executive washroom.
Last watched: August 29, 2008 Added: August 01, 2008 Air date: October 18, 1990 Duration: 01:31 Rating: 5.0 / 5.0
Shared "Choosing a Nifty index fund" on Google... →
Shared by Nilu
Ajay Shah and I agree?
Here’s a snapshot of what is going on with Nifty index funds in India. The annualised tracking error is computed using the one year of data ending 31…
Shared "Tips for working with Force.com IDE" on... →
Shared by Steve
just did a write up of using Eclipse with Force.com
I’ve doing Salesforce.com development with Eclipse as my IDE for over two years now and it’s truly indispensable. It…
Listened to "Waylon Jennings – Are You Ready for... →
Watched "Eureka: What About Bob? (s3 | e2)" on... →
The Fixer’s celebrated efficiency is of little help when inhabitants of Global’s sealed biosphere begin devolving, and display characteristics of ancient life forms.
Last watched:…
Watched "Psych: Murder?… Anyone?… Anyone?…... →
Gus has worked long and hard organizing their high school reunion, so when Shawn claims one of their fellow alumni has been murdered and his body has been hidden, Gus refuses to…
Watched "Psych: Disco Didn't Die. It Was Murdered!... →
The biggest bust of Henry’s career just walked out of jail on a technicality, so Shawn and Gus must revisit the seventies to re-investigate the case and put the culprit behind bars…
Watched "Arrested Development: Spring Breakout (s2... →
While Michael schemes to get his mother into an alcohol rehab center, Kitty schemes to get a Bluth son of her own by kidnapping George Sr. and demanding some of his sperm.
Last…
Watched "Burn Notice: Unpaid Debts (s1 | e6)" on... →
Michael gets on the wrong side of Jamaican smugglers and crooked cops when he repos a boat for an old friend of Sam’s.
Last watched: August 28, 2008 Added: June 11, 2008 Air date:…
Listened to "50 Cent – In the Club" →
Listened to "Lenny Kravitz – American Woman" →
Listened to "My Chemical Romance – Disenchanted" →
Listened to "Gnarls Barkley – Gnarls Barkley" →
Listened to "Fallout Boy – Dance, Dance" →
Shared "Dell wields Force.com" on Google Reader →
Shared "Dell's designs on cloud computing" on... →
Standing 52 stories in the air at the trendy Carnelian Room in the Bank of America building in San Francisco, executives from Dell, Facebook and Salesforce.com discussed the meaning and use of…
Dugg "Fetishes [xkcd]" →
They eventually resolved this self-reference, but Cantor’s ‘everything-in-the-fetish-book-twice’ parties finally sunk the idea.
Listened to "Divide & Kreate – Temperaturized... →
Listened to "DJ M.i.F. – Tricky Sandman (Run-DMC... →
Shared "Links of Interest" on Google Reader →
Automatically back up your entire web server files and databases to Amazon S3
Christina Warren has a comprehensive and excellent tutorial on creating a Ruby script to back up your entire…
Shared "What’s So Social about Sign-in?" on Google... →
Just recently I published a new pattern, Sign-in Continuity, to the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library. It could be filed under “Engagement,” a category we have internally but that…
Watched "The Dresden Files: Hair of the Dog (s1 |... →
When Detective Murphy asks Dresden to help her with a series of ritualistic slayings, he discovers that werewolves are involved. Only the werewolves aren’t the killers, they’re the…
Watched "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Dennis... →
Dennis and Dee’s mom dies and leaves Dennis the house but nothing to Frank or Dee.
Last watched: July 27, 2008 Added: October 10, 2007 Air date: September 20, 2007 Duration: 23:00 …
Watched "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Thu, Jul... →
Geo Beach, host of the History Channel’s “Tougher in Alaska,” tells Jon why America’s coldest state is also its greatest.
Last watched: July 27, 2008 Added: July 25, 2008 Air date:…
Watched "The Dresden Files: The Boone Identity (s1... →
The ghost of a murdered girl can’t rest until justice is brought to her killer – except he’s already dead.
Last watched: July 27, 2008 Added: July 04, 2008 Air date: January 28,…