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Cadbury Bunny Sneaks Mint

	Cadbury Bunny Sneaks Mint Cadbury the bunny takes a moment from hiding under the chair to eat some mint. She comes out just to grab some mint and then goes back under the chair repeatedly for two minutes.	From: David Risney Views: 328 1 ratings
	Time: 02:01	More in Pets & Animals

Cadbury Hits Fireplace Shovel

	Cadbury Hits Fireplace Shovel Cadbury jumps out of her toy box hitting the fireplace shovel, and does a few other cute things.	From: David Risney Views: 76 1 ratings
	Time: 00:44	More in Pets & Animals

Cadbury Nibbles Toy Box

	Cadbury Nibbles Toy Box Cadbury sits in and eats her box of toys. She enjoys eating her toy box more often than playing with any of the toys.	From: David Risney Views: 343 2 ratings
	Time: 00:16	More in Pets & Animals

Saul and Ciera's Wedding

Last weekend while Sarah was up in Canada for a spa weekend with her sister and her sister's other bridesmaids, I went to Saul and Ciera's wedding in Three Rivers, California near Sequoia National Park. I flew into Fresno picked up a rental car and my GPS device navigated me to a restaurant with the wedding location no where in sight. "No problem," I thought, "I'll just call someone with an Internet connection and..." I had no cell reception. What did people do before GPS, Internet, and cell phones?

A waitress in the restaurant pointed me down the road a bit to the wedding location which was outside overlooking a river. Their wedding cake was made up like a mountain with two backpacks at the top and rope hanging down. Ciera's father married them and the ceremony was lovely. The music after included Code Monkey to which all the nerds were forced to get up and awkwardly dance.

Besides getting to see Ciera and Saul who I hadn't seen in quite a while, I got to see Daniil and Val, Vlad, and Nathaniel. Since last I saw Daniil and Val they had a child, Katie who is very cute and in whom I can see a lot of family resemblance. The always hilarious Vlad, Daniil's brother, was there as well with his wife who I got to meet. Nathaniel, my manager from Vizolutions was there and I don't know if I've seen him since I moved to Washington. It was fun to see him and meet his girlfriend who was kind enough to donate her extra male to male mini-phono cord so I could listen to my Zune in the rental car stereo on the drive back.

Dinner with Goodwins at Icon Grill

The Goodwin family, except for Michelle who is taking a class trip to Washington DC and New York, was in Seattle this week. Sarah and I met up with them for dinner last night at the Icon Grill. I enjoy the Icon Grill in general and last night was no exception especially having dinner with the Goodwins which was a lot of fun. It was particularly cold and at one point snowed. The Goodwin's are seeing all the classic tourist attractions in Seattle some of which are depicted in the following 1962 Seattle's Worlds Fair postcard. The postcard is featured on Paleo-Future and unsurprisingly the 1962 Worlds Fair favored Seattle's Space Needle and monorail.

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Released with Activities

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 is available now. I can finally talk about some of the stuff I've been working on for the past year or so: activities. Activities let you select a document, some text on a document, or a link to a document and run that selection through a web service. For example, you could select a word on a webpage and look it up in Wikipedia, select an address and map it on Yahoo Maps, select a webpage and translate it into English with Windows Live Translator, or select a link and add it to Digg.

IE8 comes installed with some activities based on Microsoft web services but there's a page you can go to to install other activities. However, that page is missing some of my favorites that I use all the time, like del.icio.us. Accordingly, I've put together a page of the activities I use. MSDN has all the info on creating Activities.

Activities are very similar to other existing features in other browsers including the ability to add context menu items to IE. There's two important differences which make activities better. Activities have a preview window that pops out when you hover over an activity, which is useful to get in place information easily provided by developers. The other is that the interface is explicit and takes after HTML FORMs and OpenSearch descriptions. Because the interface is explicitly described in XML (unlike the context menu additions described above which run arbitrary script) we have the ability to use activities in places other than on a webpage in the future. And because activity definitions are similar to HTML FORMs, if your webservice has an HTML FORM describing it you can easily create an activity.

California Trip

Vishu and Patent Cube

Bunny Yawns

	Bunny Yawns Cadbury yawns.	From: David Risney Views: 1165 5 ratings
	Time: 00:10	More in Pets & Animals

Bunny Hears Something

	Bunny Hears Something Cadbury hears something, slowly.	From: David Risney Views: 94 1 ratings
	Time: 00:15	More in Pets & Animals

Palak And Meghal's Wedding

	Palak And Meghal's Wedding The child in front of me kept staring at me.	From: David Risney Views: 59 0 ratings
	Time: 00:07	More in People & Blogs

Bunny Sniff and Shake

	Bunny Sniff and Shake I've been told that family members after reading my webpage which contains some technical related material would turn to my cousins webpage. So, in an effort to not drive away readers I've...	From: David Risney Views: 328 3 ratings
	Time: 00:08	More in Pets & Animals

Two-for Script File

/* 2> NUL
@echo off
cscript /e:javascript /nologo "%~f0" %*
@goto :eof

    Hello World
        Says 'Hello world.' when you run it.
*/

var outText = 'Hello world.';
WScript.Echo(outText);

C:\Users\davris>helloworld

C:\Users\davris>/*  2>NUL
Hello world.

C:\Users\davris>helloworld
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.7
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Hello world.

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