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Assuming you can read this, a Great Discovery: www.ZenniOptical.com has been made. If you can't read this, then try these on. If you need glasses, Zenni Optical offer competitive pricing due to the fact that they only sell their own manufactured frames directly to the customer. They offer many types of lenses too. Single vision, sun sensing lenses, progressive lenses, bifocals. They even have the cool bendable memory titanium frames. A friend of mine had those. They are metal, but they can bend about, but go right back to their proper shape. Almost makes me want glasses.

Not only is The Space Turtle now making money from Pay Per Post, it has a page rank of 2. I'm not sure how I pulled that off. I made another ninja video. It is on The Space Turtle.

MY co-worker Orion helped with my interactive fiction game. Gave me a few suggestions to make the game flow better and make a few confusing parts make more sense.

I got hired for a new job. I start Monday. The contract for my current job was going to end the end of February, so I was looking for something to do before that day came. I'll be part of a process that puts sight reticles on prisms that will be into rifle scopes. Neat, huh? They wont be letting me test the rifles though.

Got a business near the boarder and thinking of going across to do business, but foreign language isn't your strong suit? Or maybe your have a website that needs translated so you can reach a larger base of visitors, or need documents translated to distribute, but you don't know the language.

Austin translation services is a translation service in Texas that specializes in translating from English to Spanish and Spanish to English, as well as many other languages. They can translate for businesses when talking to a client or partner who speaks a foreign language, convert websites and documents into another language. They also have trained professionals to translate technical documents, such as CAD drawings or complex industrial processes and procedures.

Good news! We got a baby girl on the way! Pictures here.

She is smiling in one of the pictures. She likes to kick around a lot. The most when we are watching Lost or I am playing my guitar.

According to the ultrasound, she's growing normally.

There is a service you may have heard of, literally. If you have been to websites that plays a 5 second audio ads, it is likely you heard something like Pay Per Play Ads. What the service does for website owners is offer a way to generate advertising revenue without taking up space visible on a web page. When a user comes to the site, a five second audio advertisement is played. If the visitor stays at least two seconds, the website owner gets paid. They use PayPal to pay those selling ad 'space' weekly. Revenue is stated to be somewhere around .01 to .03 cents per play. High traffic sites can probably earn a decent revenue at those rates.

If your site could benefit from a service like this, you might want to check it out.

The offending member of Zazzle removed the stolen art from her site.

I plan on researching the Creative Commons licensing more to see if that is something my wife could use to better protect her art.

I will let you know what I find.

Here is a neat gadget: A USB room temperature sensor. If you run computers is a dangerous climate, you can set up a safeguard against a computer getting too hot by using this device to measure the ambient room temperature to within -+0.5C. It runs using s a windows service, and can save the data or even shutdown the computer if you want.

A network admin can use this to monitor a room in case the AC fails or is turned off on accident.

Aside from protecting a PC, since it measures from -40F to 200F, you could use it for environmental testing to record the ambient temperature data or the room the PC is in.

Some other uses I read about are
-Put the sensor in a plastic bag and use it to monitor an aquarium's temperature
-Monitor the temperature in a smoker room that smokes meat
-Attach one to the front and one to the back of each server in a server cabinet to see where hot spots are.

Someone on Zazzle stole one of my wife's images and put it up for sale as her own. We and others (including a fan!) have reported it. We'll see how this goes. I'm home on break at the moment and can't write a lot about it, so I will wrote more later.

We don't watch much TV, but when we do, we frequently mute car sales commercials because they are really annoying. Now, when I bought my car, the salesman was a really cool guy, and didn't threaten to club baby seals if we didn't "buy today", but I feel like I was fortunate, considering all the ads we see and how much we hate how annoying they are. I've never seen UK car commercials, but I have a feeling they might be the same, but I have a feeling I could be totally wrong too. In any case, if you want to buy a used car in the UK, the site BuyYourCar has listing for Used Cars. You can search by car model, so if you know what car you want, you can easily find it. You can also search using price range, how far from where you live, and limit the sellers to private or dealers. The listings show the basic data you would expect, miles, etc. They also have links to useful sites that can get car history for you and for car insurance. You can also look for cars to lease and new cars to buy.

If I ever go to the UK, I might use this site to get me one of these, if I can find one like Mr. Bean's. I didn't see any listing for a Reliant Robin, though. Bummer.