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I’ve been on a bit of an HD kick lately, ever since I invested in a Panasonic TH-50PX600U TV a couple weeks ago. It’s gotten to the point where I’m watching shows I would have never watched before, simply because they’re available in HD, and avoiding shows I used to love to watch, simply because they aren’t available in HD.

Something really caught my eye today, though, and it doesn’t have anything to do with my cool new TV. A couple weeks back, I finally upgraded from my old CRT monitor to Gateway’s FPD1975W flat-screen, HD-ready LCD monitor. Today was the first time I actually watched any HD content on it.

Ain’t It Cool News pointed me to a new Ocean’s 13 trailer over at Yahoo!. I clicked on the 720p link for their “exclusive trailer” and was blown away by the clarity of the downloaded .qtl file as it graced my screen in the Quicktime player:

Wow. I think I’ll go watch it again.

Ran across this great photo of Dick’s Drive In. Like LA’s In-N-Out burgers, this is the best fast food in the city, a not to be missed hang-over cure late weekend nights.

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Alexey Gavrilov is the man. He ran a bunch of different speed tests on a bunch of Rich Internet Application technologies as well as browser and operating systems and ended up with some very cool results. He admits that the result sets are small, but he enlisted the help of other people to bring the number […]

While populating the link blog, I found this forum post regarding some problems with Windows Vista and Flash Player 9. They mention that with the Administrator account, they can’t view Flash sites without turning User Control off (that sweet Vista feature that makes you confirm everything you do).
I’ve been using Vista for a while and […]

I just finished watching Kevin Lynch’s presentation from the Adobe Analyst Summit and it got me pretty pumped about where the next generation of the web is going. I realize that a lot of this is Wall Street spin, but if you take a look at the numbers, Adobe is very well positioned to […]

With the passage of the Seattle Green Factor, the Department of Planning and Development has been facilitating a lot of great public education, particularly with its Green Factor Workshop Series which continues in City Hall’s Bertha Landes Room, this W…

We’ll be presenting to the City Council’s PELL Committee next Wednesday, April 4 sometime between 2-4 pm. Come on by and check it out.

Looking forward to seeing what they came up with . . . Mayor Gregg Nickels will announce the release of the draft Bicycle Master Plan on Wednesday, April 4th at 10 a.m. at Sturgus Park. The plan provides a blueprint for connecting routes throughout Sea…

This may turn out to be one of the best weekends of my life. IF I get a ticket to a Final Four game. I’m off to Atlanta, thanks to Gentleman Lover’s job. More about that later, back to me….

Someone has taken the Google Web Toolkit Mail sample application and ported it to Apollo. Awesome to see, especially with the Ajax support still coming along. Anyone know of other frameworks who have already test stuff on Apollo?

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