Washed my hands yesterday evening with some wonderfully fragrant Vanilla Brown Sugar SoftSoap - mmmmm, smells so good! Arguably the best smelling hand soap on the market.

Sure seems like a lot of the Beagle.AR virus making the rounds lately.

Looks like Femia is still hanging in there (on "The Benefactor") - she's in the Top 4! That Linda chick is really irritating, however - and where does her stupid accent come from? They really need to boot Linda off of the show, she's ruining it for us, and everyone knows Femia is going to win anyway. Go Femia, it's your birthday! =)


Looks like Ev (Evan Williams) is leaving Pyra/Blogger/Google. We'll miss ya, buddy!

I was dismayed to see that the writing pop-up window on Windows XP Tablet Edition doesn't pop up in a Remote Desktop (Terminal Services) session - thus making the pen useless in that environment. =(

I had a hilarious experience over the past few days trying to remember my Hotmail password. (I couldn't, but now I can.) It happened, ironically, directly because of the tablet PC. Many of the passwords I "remember" are 'stored' in a pattern that my fingers 'remember', but my brain doesn't actually know. In other words, if you asked me what my password was, I couldn't tell you, but place my hands over a keyboard and I could type it. I know I'm not alone, because I've seen other people do the same technique on a telephone dialing pad to remember phone numbers. Anyway - all that gets thrown out the window when there's no keyboard (as is the case with our tablet PCs [slates]). I tried so many times to unsuccessfully write out my password with a pen that I actually created a mind block for myself for a few days, so that even when I returned to a computer with a regular keyboard, even my fingers couldn't remember. I worried so much about it that I even dreamt about it, and then when I woke up this morning, I suddenly remembered - eureka! In a related but side note, I am much more impressed with XP Tablet 2005 edition than I was with the original Tablet XP.

Speaking of Hotmail, it's nice to see that they're finally giving everyone a 250 MB mailbox size limit on free accounts (and 2 GB on paid accounts). (Of course, they still have the seemingly industry-standard low attachment limit of 10 MB, which as we all know is really just a little over 6 MB in reality.) Welcome to the 21st century! =)