Archive for August, 2007
Sued for automating email
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007Polaris IP filed a Lawsuit yesterday against
AOL, Amazon, Borders, Google, IAC, and Yahoo. They claim they hold the patent to basically processing email automatically with a computer.
The patent was filed in 1998, although according to a unix program name vacation they were doing this in ‘83!:
vacation is Copyright (c) 1983 by Eric P. Allman, University [...]
Diet - Day 11
Friday, August 24th, 2007Ya so I haven’t been blogging about my diet.It’s been going okay, I’m sometimes hungry thought.
Stats:
11 days I’ve went from 185 to 177.5 this morning!
I’m eating healthy food.
My nightly heartburn has vanished
I don’t feel bloated all the time
I’m not freakishly tired in the afternoons anymore
Now [...]
Brazos Bend State Park Observatory
Monday, August 13th, 2007I went to the Brazos Bend Observatory on Saturday with Derk, Effie, Ryan, Jill and Sammi to see the telescopes and possible meteor shower. We only saw like two meteors, but it was pretty cool still. I took a lot of long exposures with my Canon, a few turned out.
Diet - Day 1
Monday, August 13th, 2007Starting a new diet today. It’s one of those “boost your metabolism” diets.
* Note: these are all very small portions.
Breakfast:
Yogurt with some cereal in it and blueberries
Snack:
One Celery stalk, with 1 tbsp peanut butter.
Lunch:
Tuna salad sandwich on whole grain wheat with a few pretzels on the side
Snack:
I’m eating carrots and cream cheese right now
Dinner:
I think [...]
Life in Eight Steps
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007Ryan showed me this link. It pretty much sums up my last post. Check Savage Chickens for more!
Time is flying
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007Man this year is going by quick!
I got vacation in four more weeks, going a my first ever cruise. Hopefully it doesn’t suck!