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We received our 9th box of cats today from Woot! This one was from the April 14th Woot Happy Hour. Here’s what we got…

Box #9 (Reported: 6.8 lbs and 13.1″ x 13.1″ x 13.1″, Actually: 6.2 lbs and 12″ x 12″ x 18″)

• 2 Fleece Baby Blanket (new)
• 4 Slinky Jr.
• 5 Mini Tripod
• 2 80 GB Western Digital Hard Drive (1 used–seems to be defective, 1 DOA–no power connector on the drive!)
• 2 High School Musical Decal Wall Clock

• 13 Packing Material (Texas Air, 12 inflated)
• 1 Cardboard Box

Not a bad haul! No bag, though. Maybe I’ll ask for one to see what they come up with.

Thanks, Woot!

I consider myself a good speller, but from time to time I need to quickly find out if my spelling of a particular word is correct. This happens very frequently while working on a customer’s website, hacking out a new web app for my company, and even while writing for this blog.

Google steps in…

You might be wondering why I would waste Google’s bandwidth to look up words, or even why I would waste my own time with the hassle of opening a web browser. The truth is Google can offer me the fastest word lookup for my (possibly specific) situation. All of my use cases listed above involve a web browser, which is already open and ready for my input. And Google is so fast it does not seem to matter how you use it, or how frequently. Besides, I would be very surprised if any of you even try this trick.

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I am starting a blog, likely devoted to answering technology questions I get asked frequently.

Wish me luck…

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