I have moved to a new blogging platform. Nothing against Spaces, it was my first real blog but I think it's a bit sparse in the way of blogging features once you've tried a few other ones. I was tempting to use TypePad but the cheapskate in me decided to give Vox a whild. You can visit me on my new Vox blog at www.tomtalking.com

P.s. this is a good example of why everyone should own their own blog domain name.

walking home from work the other day i say a bunch of people on the sidewalk outside cinerama camping out for tickets to "snakes on a plane."  given that the first time i saw the trailer i thought it was one of those verizon turn off you cellphone ads, i was shocked that people are so excited about such a seemingly vapid movie.  was this a remake of some sort of cult classic or is the world going down the drain?

went to lowes to buy a new oven and range to spice up our little condo.  the lowes display area has alluring signs all over saying "next day delivery."  once you finalize the transaction, the estimated delivery time: 10 days later.  lying sacks of shite.

Even though I was one of the earliest Judy's Book adopters, I recently discovered Yelp who has a far superior UI and a bit more fun factor built in.

Check it out here: http://netboy.yelp.com

p.s. to the MSN Spaces people, please don't make users manually insert a link when they type in an http://... address.  it's not delightful.

nice to see omar's concern for my carpal - also great to hear he recuperated

i had my three year wedding anniversary today.  i love wendy.

tried a new restaurant called nell's in green lake, one of the best meals i've ever had. the peach crisp dessert with blueberry ice cream was fricking ectsasy.

war in middle east is bumming me out. i am ambivalent about israel. on the one hand, their response over 2 kidnappings seems to be out of control. on the other hand, i'm quietly hoping hezbollah will be gone when they're done.

zillow raises another $25M. add this to the list of start ups i'm not sure i get.

the new hotmail has a new today page, it's actually quite useful since they show recently updated spaces.  if you knew how many meetings were had over this page, you wouldn't believe me.

saw a doctor, as omar and others commented below, this is not something to take lightly.  the doctor poked my hand with a bunch of needles and said the numb areas were consistent with a certain nerve getting pinched due to inflamation of the muscles and stuff squeezing the nerve.

her reco was to wear a special brace which prevents me from bending my wrists (and makes it really hard to use the laptop) and also doing an overhaul of my workstation to ensure i am not craning, bending, or slouching in any way.