It is hot!

It has been hot and humid all week. Today is no different - upper 80's today. To get a break, I have gone to my bedroom to cool off with our trusty window air conditioner. After checking my email I was thinking about the heat and decided to look for "It's So Hot!" jokes on the internet. After reading one woman's detailed directions for baking cookies in your hot car, I found the standard lines, like:

• It's so hot, my steak Tartar was well-done by the time it got to the table.
• It's so hot, you could fry an egg on the sidewalk and toast your English muffin too.
• It's so hot, your Odor Eaters have sent up a white flag.
• It's so hot, when you dig up potatoes, they're already baked.
• It's so hot, I saw two trees fighting over a dog.
• It's so hot, the cows are giving evaporated milk.

Then I found a few new ones (at least for me)

• It's so hot, Jesus turned the wine back into water!
• It's so hot, today I saw an Amish guy buying an air conditioner.
• It's so hot, that Dick Cheney waterboarded himself.

I hope you can find a cool spot or play in some cool water today. Stay safe!

Bill

H2IK

First, if you have never stopped by the Hulu.com site, give it a whirl. You can catch up of a missed episode of your favorite TV show, or even catch a movie and of course there are trailers for movies and shows as well.

I recently started watching a series called Defying Gravity. It is a science fiction series that is on ABC on Sunday evenings at 10:00. Since I am usually asleep by that time, I have been watching the show on Hulu. I am not going to give an in depth review of the series, but will say that I enjoy it and it is worth checking out.

All of this is background to a simple item in the show which I found humorous and wanted to share. They make reference to an H2IK sequence, where H2IK stands for Hell If I Know. It's a great way admit to a co-worker or friend that you don't have a clue without the boss catching on (unless your boss saw the show). Use this when the ID10T error doesn't fit.

Microsoft can't sell Word any more

Today, I saw the news that Microsoft can't sell Word any more. A Judge for the U.S. District Court of Eastern Texas ruled that Microsoft willfully infringed on a patent held by i4i, a small company in Toronto, Canada. Under this ruling, Microsoft would not be allowed to sell its current version of Word in the United States, and must pay damages of about $290 million. Yet, Microsoft's stock went up today.

Microsoft will certainly file appeals. It may take years to finalize this issue. Microsoft will certainly pay massive amounts of money, even if just for lawyers. But, they have been here before. They almost make a habit of this. And in the end, they will either work something out with i4i, or buy i4i, or make coding changes and move on. That's what I would do.

Pre-Anniversary Lunch

This weekend my wife and I will celebrate out 29th anniversary. We went out for lunch today, Mary likes the Wayside Inn in Sudbury so we had a nice quiet lunch. We mostly just chilled out throughout the day. We went to the Concert on the Green in Framingham Centre for a while this evening. We brought our dogs (two male Shelties, one 10 years old and one 3 months old) with us to give them a walk. There were many little kids there that wanted to pet the dogs, fortunately they (the dogs) behaved well.


At this moment, the Red Sox are playing the Yankees. My wife, is a big Red Sox and is a little stressed as the score is 0 - 0 and they just finished the 9th inning. Now I find Baseball to be a bit too slow for my tastes, but I am a geek and can easily amuse myself with my laptop.

Let's get started...

A friend asked me about blogging today and I realized I really don't know that much about it. So, here I am a few hours later writing the first entry in my blog.

Blogging has become very common today and many people attempt to use blogging to promote their business, their political views or other beliefs, or even try to present helpful information to others. The majority of blogging appears to be the twenty-first century version of a diary or a journal. A public diary would have been unheard of a few generations ago, yet today we seem to be more willing to tell everyone the details of our private lives.

With that in mind, I do not plan to air my dirty laundry, but I will, from time to time share some of the funny or profound happenings in my life.

Your comments, especially encouraging ones are welcome.