Post Cluetrain

Things look a little different to Christopher Smith these days.

-Hack-

Sums up two themes for the day: the sorry state of my health and things you can do to your TiVo.

It's Jeneane's birthday! Go wish her a happy one while I hunt for a decongestant.

For the TiVo, the 30-second jump hack [via The Screen Savers] transforms the skip-to-end button into a 30-second skip button. Not that you'd want to miss commercials or anything. (Others are referenced by the same source with much cya.)

Voice From Beyond

The L.A. Times reports the Monterey Bay Aquarium is trolling for a juvenile great white shark to exhibit, despite the fact no one has been able to keep one alive in captivity for more than three weeks. "It would be a wonderful spokesman for the aquarium," says John O'Sullivan, curator of field operations, according to the Times. Oh, well terrific then. But I'm guessing there's not much a young shark can utter while it's busy dying:

"Our white shark lived longer than anyone else's because we let it go before it died," said [John] McCosker [of San Francisco's Steinhart Aquarium], who has co-written a book on great whites. That 7-foot shark was moved from Bodega Bay to the aquarium, but once inside, it banged so hard against the tank that it exhausted itself.

See You Soon

Light to no blogging for the weekend; Mel's in town; he says hi.

Show Tunes

Sir Noel Coward and Elaine Stritch asked, "Why do the wrong people travel when the right people stay home?" This sentiment is reprised by many who use the Web for convenience toward those who blog, chat or discuss. Sooner or later though, everyone wants to visit the pyramids.