June 2006

Some new products I saw. Strawberry cupcakes, Hello Kitty Poptarts, Strawberry Twinkies, Coffee Horchata, and Go Girl Energy Drink.
Oh yeah, that’s my Mr. Potato Head I made. Go ahead, click on him.
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Need some mind-invigoratig coffee while in Kailua? You’re in luck with several options available. You can choose from:

Morning Brew
Muddy Waters Espresso
Kalapawai Market
Starbucks (two of them)
Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf

Choices, choices. The freedom to choose - ain’t it great?
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If your flight is showing the movie Failure to Launch, it’d be best to expect some problems…
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And the news about caffeine and coffee just keeps on coming. Local coffee vendor, Lion Coffee, has three new flavors to sample. These new varieties of their “Imagination” line are meant to invoke childhood memories. The newest additions are Island Grogg, Almond Dobash, and Toasted Marshmallow Cream.
Sounds yummy!

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Some useful references for you bloggers out there. First off, here’s a guide showing the most common grammatical mistakes and correct usage. Now that you got proper grammar, throw in some new terms learned from the Giant Blogging Dictionary. Very comprehensive.

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Google just released their Google Browser Sync extension for Firefox that will keep your bookmarks in sync across various computers. Using your Google account, your Firefox favorites/bookmarks are saved then replicated to other installations of Firefox you use with this extension installed. Very handy to keep your bookmarks at home and at work [...]

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I’ll have to pass on these unless I’m going for the serious retro look.
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In the June 2006 issue of Men’s Health, there’s a small blurb about the caffeine content of popular drinks. Here are the most caffeinated products in the five categories of energy drink, tea, coffee, diet soda, and regular soda.

SoBe Adrenaline Rush, 9.2 mg per oz
Nestea Cool Lemon Iced Tea, 0.96 mg per oz
Starbucks Doubleshot, [...]

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You’ve seen The Fast and The Furious where tricked out cars zoom by boosted by nitrous oxide systems. Well, coffee could have the same effect on your brain. Previously, it was thought that drinking coffee puts people in a better mood and therefore more agreeable. The latest flavor of the day states [...]

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Need to do some number crunching on-line? How about using fancy formulas to see how your data can transform to 6-6-6 on June 6, 2006? Google is opening up its on-line spreadsheet application boringly called “Spreadsheets.” You can upload regular Excel files then you can invite people to edit the on-line document [...]

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The season finale of Deal or No Deal featured a possible winning of $5 million. I think the previous high was $3M. Casey was the unlucky contestant who also happened to love Celine Dion and (tries to) sing Celine’s songs. So naturally, Celine Dion was a guest on the show via satellite.
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Apple kicked off its Back-to-School promotion early this year. If you buy a Mac by September 16, 2006, you can get a free iPod Nano (or $179 credit to a more expensive iPod).
Looks like you can get a free printer with another on-going deal. Sweet!
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With my hard earned cash from Google AdSense, I got myself a 20-oz Pepsi featuring a new under-the-cap game. Instead of giving away iTunes singles, this new contest is for ringtones for your cell phone. 1 in 3 is a winner, but there’s a twist to the contest. Pepsi got smart and [...]

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UCI Anteaters built a Highly Interactive Parallelized Display Wall, dubbed HIPerWall, at their Center of GRAVITY (Graphics, Visualization, and Imaging Technology) using fifty 30-in Apple Cinema Displays.
Powered by 25 PowerMacs, this video wall can display 200 megapixels of information. Nice!
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A co-worker and I were troubleshooting a problem the other day whereupon he found the problem and fixed it. After that he says “I’m the Man!”
Can you do that? Can you call yourself “The Man?” I thought only others could bestow that title to you. You know, like saying “Man, that [...]

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So my friend joined the digital music evolution when she recently got her first iPod. It got me thinking about stuff a new iPod user should know or should do. I thought of several things that I’ll cover in a span of posts. For now, we’ll start off with…
Fill’er Up
Import your [...]

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