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Sea Orchestra

More new commercials from my favorite airline!

Festive Greetings Sir!

Interior decorators are waiting, standing by to festivitize your bank account!

Snow!?

The Canadians are up to something. I’m getting hit hard by multiple emails touting over 160 cm of snow at Whistler. Tahoe barely has a foot. They must have some strange force field pushing rain down to LA rather than the Sierras!

SmugMug HQ - Mountain View, CA

Everyone should get an Odwalla fridge for the office. Really!

They provide the cooler and delivery for free, and you are only charged for what you drink. Wholesale prices, rotated stock, just like a Safeway. How can you go wrong?

Dorking, Surrey, United Kingdom

Morning Suit enabled for an English wedding! Cheers to the new couple!

quattro: great then. great now.

While you don’t need quattro on the streets of Mountain View… it sure makes it a whole lot more fun! Too bad nothing seems to confuse California drivers more than liquid from the sky. I, on the other hand, don’t freak out and drive like the roads are full of ice.

And who says size doesn’t matter? I do… 9″ at Kirkwood is highly insufficient! Bring on the snow!

Columbia, MO

Scott Keith Laws (1977-2007)

 

On Friday, September 14, 2007, Scott Keith Laws went to be with his Lord and Savior.  Scott was born June 18, 1977, in Jefferson City, Missouri.   He grew up in Columbia and graduated from Hickman High School in 1996.  While he was in high school, Scott spent his summers doing mission work in Romania.  While attending college at the University of Missouri- Columbia, he spent a year studying at the University of Sibiu in Romania as an exchange student where he became fluent in Romanian.   In 2000 Scott went to work for Microsoft in Silicon Valley, California.

Scott is survived by his parents, Keith and Sherryl Laws of Harrisburg, brother Tim, sister Julie and her husband Nathan Byrum and their three children Rose, Carter and Carson, grandmothers Velda Ogar of Mexico and Leola Laws of Perryville, and numerous aunts, uncles and cousins from around the area.   He was preceded in death by both his grandfathers, Adolph Ogar and Stan Laws and cousin Anne Quick.

Memorial services will be held on Tuesday, September 18 at 10:30 am at the Evangelical Free Church, 600 Silvey Road, Columbia, Missouri.   Donations may be made to the Craiova Romania Church Building Fund in care of the Johnston Evangelical Free Church, 9901 NW 62nd St., Johnston, IA 50131.

United Services - San Francisco, CA

Members of Flyertalk were given the opportunity to tour United Services’ San Francisco Maintenance Base last Friday.  It was an outstanding event, showing the inner workings of what it takes to support the 460 airplanes in United’s fleet.  One of the cool things, besides walking beneath a 777 as shown above, was to meet the many non-customer facing employees of the facility.  They are proud of what they do, and who they work for.

Thanks to United, the SFOMC, and everyone else that made this tour possible.  It was everything an aviation geek could hope for!  Can I have one of those PW4000-series for my car?

Auckland, NZ

The Labor Day holiday found me down under, in the lovely country of New Zealand. Highlights of the trip: I enjoyed the city of Auckland, drove south to snowboard on a volcano called Mt. Ruapehu, and visited friends. As usual, the locals were fantastic! I’d love to go back for an extended vacation.

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iPhone happy, Safari Beta 3.0.3 not, with WordPress

I installed a beta version of an iPhone plug in for WordPress. Not too bad (although I need to go fix some URLs that cause some known formatting issues). And on this subject, I intend to write some sort of review. I still love it!

It appears that the editor inside WordPress and Safari Beta 3.0.3 do not co-exist very well. All of the formatting tags get stripped out of the post thus making one huge blob. This is not acceptable, back to bloated Firefox for my occasional post.