Scott Elkin

 Wow, I am really, really impressed.  Single handedly, an extension changed how I store and find webpages.  You can get it here.

 The new delicious firefox completely and totally eliminates the need to use Bookmarks anymore.  This is what it does:

1.  Instead of saving a bookmark, you would click this button:

2.  Doing so will bring up a dialog box for you to enter any keywords associated with the webpage.  Delicious is smart enough to recommend what it thinks the keywords should be based on other users:

Last weekend I was invited to take pictures professionally of the Brazilion Jiu Jitsu Pan American Championship. It was my first time I got to do photography for pay and doing sports photography.

There was several challenges.  First, I had no idea who anyone was.  Having to constantly ask “who should I shoot?” amongst the 8 simultaneous matches started getting old.  Then there was having to go through almost 1,000 photos – forget even trying to photoshop them.  But it was a fun learning weekend, and they came out pretty good.

My Brother-In-Law’s company, Spacedog, just finished this website which is really cool.  Here is the “lunch date” he sent me.  Set up your own and pass it around to support him:

Spicy Buffalo Lunch Date

Now playing: Girl Talk – That’s My DJ

Microsoft will donate money to the charity of your choosing with every instant message you write.  Just append the appropriate code next to your display name.

From http://messengersays.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!5B410F7FD930829E!25315.entry:

• American Red Cross — ready to help, code = *red+u
• Boys & Girls Clubs of America — providing a positive place for kids, code = *bgca
• National AIDS Fund — fighting AIDS, code = *naf
• National MS Society — joining the MS movement, code = *mssoc
• ninemillion.org –  helping 9 million refugee kids, code = *9mil
• Sierra Club — exploring and protecting the planet, code = *sierra
• StopGlobalWarming.org — stopping global warming, code = *help
• Susan G. Komen for the Cure — finding the cure, code = *komen
• UNICEF — helping kids survive, code = *unicef

I found this deep in a forum and don’t want it lost (source):

As you may all know, SQL Server 2005 request a minimum of 8GB RAM to work… let’s say satisfactorily. I first didn’t know that and after a while from the upgrade I did from SQL Server 2000 to 2005 my SQL Services were starting to crash three or four times per DAY!!!

If you have never seen the Ultimate Fighting Championship, this will not be worth much.

For some reason, I never grasped the pop culture reference, “For Whom the Bell Tolls”.  I knew it was from the Ernest Hemingway book, and I have sung along with the Metallica song half of my life.  But what does it mean?

Metallica paints a picture of death and war:

Take a look to the sky just before you die
It's the last time he will
Blackened roar, massive roar, fills the crumbling sky
Shattered goal fills his soul with a ruthless cry
Stranger now are his eyes to this mystery
He hears the silence so loud
Crack of dawn, all is gone except the will to be
Now they see what will be, blinded eyes to see

Holy of holies.

FYI, Burbank is not a desert.  This is Los Angeles where it never gets too hot or too cold.