Wow, this is a great post. Pet Peeve #7: I’m Sorry You Feel That Way · Violent Acres totally sums up how snotty some people are when saying “I’m sorry you feel that way”. Wow.
I found Eric Sink’s blog via some references from Joel Spolsky’s blog. This is a nice post about the problems with whiz-bang technology.
Found a neat idea if you’re into doing things yourself. You can use this device to make your own bottles of soda, mixing the flavors and setting the carbonation the way you want.
I enjoy reading 360digest when I get a chance. Not only is my brother-in-law Dave a newly-minted real estate agent but the house next door was up for sale for a while recently. Real estate is one of those things that we all have to deal with, because we all need a place to live.
Anyway, I was amused to read that on the blog this quote:
In Portland, Ore., $300,000 means a clean and simple floating home on the Pacific ocean
Ummm, it would not be a clean and simple home. Because the Pacific Ocean is 90 miles away from Portland, which is on the Columbia and Willamette rivers.
100 years ago, Portland was a more significant city than Seattle because of those rivers. It was simply easier to float things up and down the rivers than to try to move them across land. With trucks and interstates and container ships, that’s changed significantly. Now it’s important to have deep water and make it easy for big ships to navigate into docks as quickly as possible. So new Portland is “little sister” to Seattle. Which never lets us forget it. 
We’re experimenting with linking back to blogs who reference a business on mypages.com For example, a business that listed itself recently was Hammy’s Pizza. It’s in the Portland Pizza category.