The answer is YES. Last month, I saw a screenshot of the Fujinon Binoculars website source code. Filled with seemingly endless <FONT> tags, I couldn't help but laugh. A snippet of the code. Take a look at the original to get the full effect. THIS is the reason I never use an HTML editor, I chuckled as I scrolled down the overly bloated code. But alas! Today I found out that there was a reason behind this madness! According to b3ta.com, this is what you get when you zoom out and flip the code on its side: It almost looks like a landscape, doesn't it? Now, when we travel - via Google Earth - to the top of Fujinon’s corporate headquarters in Saitama and face Mount...
Continue readingWow, I am such an idiot. Would you believe I forgot about my own contest? MY. OWN. CONTEST. Granted, things have been a bit hectic lately but that is no excuse. I announced the contest last week, tweeted about it ONCE, and...
Continue readingOne of my favorite things to do while battling insomnia is to make lists. Endless, pointless lists. Last night I did a mental rundown of all the cell phones I've had since my first purchase during my freshmen year in college in 1999. (Before then was pagers. Having access to Korean import stores, I had some sweet pagers - ones that always made my high school peers green with envy. Now, kids don't even know what pagers are.) Can you believe that I have owned TEN ELEVEN different phones since then? Nokia 6190purchased in 1999, carrier: AT&T My very first cell phone. Back in 1999, not too many people in my freshmen class had cell phones and if they did, almost all had the Nokia...
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We just returned from my second appointment. Ladies and gentlemen: we have a due date! Tater Tot is due April 22, 2010. So there's still a chance of it being born on our second wedding anniversary (4/18/2010). ...
Continue readingI read this on BabyZone this morning (when my head was not bent over the toilet): The Scoop: Although it can be a major nuisance for moms-to-be, morning sickness may actually make for smarter kids, according to a recent Canadian study. In an effort to understand the effect of first trimester nausea on fetal brain development, researchers followed 121 women who had contacted a pregnancy hotline. Among children (now between ages 3 and 7) born to these women, those whose mothers experienced morning sickness scored higher on certain tests of IQ, memory, and language skills, compared to those whose mothers had no symptoms of nausea or vomiting during pregnancy. For Baby: Women in the study who reported the most severe...
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