I've been using Bloglines since a couple of days after they launched (a little over forty months now, if memory serves). I've even written a mildly popular Firefox extension for the service - the Bloglines Toolkit. It's safe to say that Bloglines has been a part of my life for a while. But it's time to move on.
We stayed in the Sheraton in Chinatown, which is just around the corner from Joe's, and let's face it - there aren't a lot of options in the area unless you want Chinese food (to be expected). I've also had In-n-Out (and Chick-Fil-A), and this place isn't close to either, though it's been compared to both. Keeping that in mind, it's a lot better than your typical fast food, too.
This is the "uptown" (midtown, technically) cousin to the pub that you'll find in the West Village, and it's definitely a lot different. The pub is much smaller and more intimate, but they are certainly related. You just have to look closely to find the similarities.
We booked a recent trip to New York because of a great rate ($49 each way). Unfortunately, t turns out that we went on the same weekend as the New York City Marathon - which means that very few rooms were available in the city, and those that were available were not cheap by any means. So we decided to look outside the city. Eventually we settled on the Sheraton LaGuardia East hotel, because it was well located (perhaps half a block from a subway stop) and the price was right. Throw in a AAA discount, and it worked out beautifully.
I'm sure most of us have shared the all-too-common experience of being nearly accosted as we leave a Wal-Mart (or other similar place of business), only to be asked for our receipt as we leave, as if we are in the process of stealing whatever we may have in our cart. Yesterday afternoon, I was doing just that with several largish bags of dog food in the cart, when the young lady at the door provided just the opening I needed by saying she needed to see my receipt.
It seems to me that the announcement of USAirways attempting to purchase Delta is good for just about everyone, with the possible exception of Charlotte. Now those of you who don't live in Charlotte may not care, and that's certainly okay. But I'm pretty certain that the one thing such a link-up will do is cut service at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport pretty dramatically.
The Charlotte Observer is reporting this morning that Friday at about 8:30am, after waiting two days in line, a man purchased a Playstation 3 console, only to return home, and as he unlocked his front door, was robbed - by shotgun - of his new purchase. Maybe I'm turning into a cynic, but so many things about this don't sit well with me that I almost don't know where to begin.
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I'm announcing one more update for the Bloglines Toolkit. This one should be the last for a while, and is mostly cosmetic, having to do largely with copyrights, licensing, other dates and such. Still, there is also some clean-up work in the code as well.
Not terribly long ago, we (that is, my family and I), decided that it was time for a new television set. Thinking that we're ready to make the leap to a larger screen format, we scoured the "leaked" Black Friday ads and settled on a nice looking model at a retailer who will, for the time being at least, remain nameless. So two weeks before the dreaded day came, we settled in with a plan in mind. Since the doors open at 5am, and tickets were to be handed out at 4am for the item in question, we should aim to get up pretty darn early. No easy feat on the day after Thanksgiving, but we hadn't done it before, and if we get up early enough, we can do it, be there and back and in bed again.
Think again.
