A friend of mine just won a freakin’ 42″ Plasma TV from Blingo for doing absolutely nothing. (She opted to take the $1200 instead.) Now are you ready to try it out? =] If you still haven’t heard about it: -Blingo is essentially just a skin for Google, so the search results are the same. […]
Category Archives: Tutorials
Prius EV Switch
And now for something totally different: I installed an Electric Vehicle switch into my Toyota Prius! For some reason, even though this ability to switch one’s Prius into a mode where only the electric motor is used is a standard feature in the Japanese and European edition of the car, it was removed from the […]
Neat USPS Facts
If you are receiving mail for the previous resident and do not know their address, simply return the mail piece back to the mailstream (by leaving in a collection box or other mail receptacle) with the notation “Not at this address” marked on the envelope. If you do know the address of the previous resident […]
How to Fold a Shirt
I guess I’ve never worked in apparel, so this Flash movie on what may perhaps be just common knowledge seemed like just *magic* to me: How to Fold a Shirt It really works! Other cool things that distracted me from cleaning my cube: Nintendogs (Now why didn’t I have this when I had a Tablet […]
The dreadful Clear Form button
Pet Peeve #132: Web forms that have the “Clear form” button right next to the “Submit form” button. Pet Peeve #133: Web forms that have the “Clear form” button, period. Where possible, save yourself the grief of accidentally erasing all of your work by typing your thoughts out in a Notepad or TextEdit window, and […]