Playing With The Xobni Plug-In For Outlook

Apr 30, 08 Playing With The Xobni Plug-In For Outlook

Posted by Michael in Hardly Working

After hearing about the Xobni plug-in for Outlook from Misty Khan on Twitter, I went over to the site to get a guest invitation. I was surprised to get one within a few hours (beta test invites are usually hard to score). Xobni creates a new box in your Outlook client that spotlights contact information and relationships for each...

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Shaking Down The Botcon Dealer Room

Apr 29, 08 Shaking Down The Botcon Dealer Room

Posted by Michael in Special Events, Transformers

Since I made a decision to avoid the 2007 Movie toys, I haven’t aggressively pursued my hobby in the last year. I picked up some chain store exclusives along the way, mostly repaints from earlier lines, and a few eBay auctions for older stuff, but no real conquests.  I spent an awful lot of money on vintage toys at last...

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Aiden Meets A Shark At The Newport Aquarium

Apr 27, 08 Aiden Meets A Shark At The Newport Aquarium

Posted by Michael in Being A Dad, Special Events

Chrissy didn’t want to spend the entire weekend waiting for me to get out of the Botcon dealer room, so we planned to go to the Cincinnati Zoo for a few hours on Saturday morning. Unfortunately, it was cold and rainy that day. So we decided to drive across the river into Kentucky to visit the Newport Aquarium instead. We...

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Botcon 2008, Day One, In Way Too Much Detail

Apr 26, 08 Botcon 2008, Day One, In Way Too Much Detail

Posted by Michael in Special Events, Transformers

We began the annual pilgrimage to Botcon on Thursday. We left home after an early lunch so that Aiden would sleep the majority of the way there. He normally naps for about three hours after lunch. The drive was four and a half hours long, however. Aiden was not the least bit happy about being stuck in the car seat after he woke up,...

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Playing With Graphic Settings In Crysis

Apr 22, 08 Playing With Graphic Settings In Crysis

Posted by Michael in Video Games

I’ve been playing the single player mode of “Crysis” for the last two weeks, and it’s been so much fun that I’m still playing it after beating it.  The gameplay is great, but I’m entertaining myself now with the graphics settings.  You have a lot of options to set: texture quality, shadow...

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The Day The Earth Roared (And I Ignored It)

Apr 18, 08 The Day The Earth Roared (And I Ignored It)

Posted by Michael in Other Things

There was a 5.2 magnitude earthquake in Mount Carmel, Illinois this morning at 4:36 AM. Chrissy heard about it on the morning news when she woke up (video). The epicenter was along the Indiana border, but much farther south than us, closer to Kentucky. CNN said that people as far away as Milwaukee could feel the ground shaking....

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Annoyed At The JG Wentworth Commercial

Apr 16, 08 Annoyed At The JG Wentworth Commercial

Posted by Michael in Other Things

I don’t think that I watch all that much television, but I keep seeing this commercial pop up that really bugs me. It’s a commercial for “J.G. Wentworth” where all these people stick their heads out of their respective windows and shout, “It’s my money and I want it now!” It’s annoying and repetitive. Then...

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Failed Attempt at Cylon Remake of Pulp Fiction

Apr 15, 08 Failed Attempt at Cylon Remake of Pulp Fiction

Posted by Michael in Movies and Video

There was a scene in last week’s Battlestar Galactica, “Six of One”, where “Caprica Six” brought two Cylon Centurions into a meeting room.  The ones, fours and fives were all represented there, and they tell her to get lost.  In reply, the two Centurions open fire on everyone present while Six...

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