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Archive for March, 2009

New iPod shuffle

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

Apple announced a new iPod Shuffle.  Gut reaction:  Voice Over is cool and all, but why not voice recognition, too?  The Shuffle telling me it is playing Bach is pretty cool.  Telling the Shuffle to “Play Bach” (or “Play ‘My Playlist’) would be a whole lot better.  I suppose that will be next year.

Note to self

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

Dear Grant,
If you ever, in the future, consider selling a home, building a home and joining a startup all at the same time, don’t!
Sincerely,
Grant

Real Estate Hope

Saturday, March 7th, 2009

Of course, it’s only a few data points, but I saw two “sold” signs up on houses that I know have been on the market for a good long time.  I’ve got my fingers crossed that mine will be sold soon, too!  If you know anyone moving to Cary, NC, send ‘em my way!
Seems like [...]

Google Search Quality Team Message

Friday, March 6th, 2009

Just got this about my Lucene blog:

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Dear site owner or webmaster of lucene.grantingersoll.com,
While we were indexing your webpages, we detected that some of your pages were using techniques that are outside our quality guidelines, which can be found here: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769&hl=en. This appears to be because your site has been modified by a third party. Typically, [...]

Good Customer Service: Cary Car Care

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

I recently broke my driver’s side mirror on my Honda and was in need of a fix.  So, I brought the car to Cary Car Care, whom I’ve used a number of times in the past for odds and ends with my ‘99 Accord.  In order to fix the mirror, they had to order a [...]

Moving Joys

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

Argh! We are in the process of a move and now split between two houses. I packed up and moved a bunch of stuff that I thought I didn’t need because I haven’t used them in a while (like my book on JQuery). As you might guess, I now need them. [...]