Live in the Bay Area? Have to go to the Department of Motor Vehicles? Check this out. It may be that you'll save time driving to a more distant branch.

Living near the El Cerrito and Oakland DMV offices, I still often drive out to Walnut Creek, just because it ends up being faster. It's nice to see some validation in print.

'one percent' or 'prior art' topic.

Metareview metacritic, criticcritic, whatever.

Blogindex, for letting people sort incidents in their life. Add an interface for external people to submit, as well as for regular webloggers to easily submit at blogtime.

Soft km-switch.

Blog all these things ASAP. Shouldn't take more than an hour or so...

Also, do the Amazon associate thingy.

Throughout the week, I typically gather about 5 or 10 cool ideas I want to blog, but never get to because I run out of time, or some other lame excuse. What I often do is write up a quick reminder on fury, but hide the entry, so only I can see it, then go back and use the hidden entries as seeds for the full posts.

Anyhow, that's the case right now too, as I have to take off to go shopping, then play with friends for the evening. Maybe I'll be able to blog tonight, but there's no guarantee.

So, in the interests at seeing the underbelly of fury, and in assauging my guilt at not posting this weekend (gak, I have 24-hour guilt. I wonder how many hours have to pass before the average weblogger feels like their blog is getting stale?) I'm just updating the timestamp of one of my 'notes' posts, and making it visible. This doesn't mean I'm not going to blog about these things. Just consider it a week in (p)review.

"You know it's not the best time for you to be in a relationship when the best part of fantasizing about it is a two-income household."
    --Me

Not that I always feel that way, just now and then.

You know what would be really cool? If you could beam a business card, appointment, whatever, to another palm over the phone. Each palm has a speaker, and visors, at least, have microphones. Someone (palm) should make software that emilates a 300 baud modem, so you can just choose 'audio-beam' and put the palm up to the phone, and the other person puts theirs up to the phone, and you can send the card, appointment, applet, whatever.

One step further, you could have an answering machine or voicemail system that says "Press 1 to leave a message. Press 2 to receive contact information to your palm. Press 3 to (buzzword, 'a-beam'?) your contact information from your palm.' (or other device, whatever).

Funny how sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between a step forward and a step backward, like closed-circuit TV --> broadcast TV --> Cable TV --> 'wireless cable' digital broadcast TV --> Broadband net access --> Two-way satellite links...

Dreams about burrowing alligators all last night. In a deserted square in a deserted land on a deserted world, they poke their little snouts out from cracks near the deteriorating pillars. You peek in, then they jump out and run after you, biting at your feet and legs.

That and a post-heroic story about being a sidekick cleaning up the deserted hideout-turned-ghosttown-shack with some friends, reminiscing about the days before the superhero's fall, finding miscellaneous gadgetry amidst the dusty memories that can only accumulate from a lifetime of clipping newspaper articles and carefully packing away old photos and trinkets from around the world into wooden crates of sawdust and mildew.

Sifting through the dust mites and memories, looking for I don't remember what, we hatch a plan to use the antiquated yet clever electronics and nostalgic words to fight new evil.

And somewhere in between was the parade of crocodiles, silent people from a forgotten time, strolling through the square in dusty finery, led by crocks large and very small, all on polite diamond leashes, convincing me that the crocs weren't all bad so that, after the parade passes, I approach the crack by the pillar again, only to be chased and mauled by the emerging crock once again.

So, in the theme of "If you want to do something right, do it yourself" or, in this case, with the help of a few friends.

So, without further ado, I present the 'Show Table Borders' bookmarklet v0.1.

It's only been tested in IE on the Mac, but you're more than welcome to tinker to get it to work wtih other platforms/browsers, but if you do, please let me know, so I can update the reference code here.

How to use:

1. Drag this link: Turn Tables to your favorites bar.
2. Navigate to a page that has tables.
3. Click the 'Turn Tables' link in the favorites bar

If it's working as it should, it will then iterate over the page you're looking at and set all the table borders to '1' so you can see them.

If you compose web pages with tables, especially if you do it by hand, you're thanking me right now... :-)

The big head is another year older. Wish her a good one!

Dear god, why can't someone Microsoft make a browser that has a command key to toggle between forcing tables to have a border=1 and whatever their specified value is? It would make web page building, proofing, editing, and all that so much easier. It's not even that hard a fix.

Maybe I can write a javascript bookmarklet that will do that. I'll let you know if I figure it out.Alternatively, let me know if you figure it out first.

I have a pretty specific voice for this weblog, but it's not the only one I use. Ernie brings up a good case in point. I'm still laughing.

I think Min Jung sums it up best:

"I still don't get how *Kevin* with what's gotta be the *dryest* personal blog ever can be such a fricking trash talkign riot in person *AND* could win the humor sxsw award. Bejebus.

"I swear the white boy's sucked all the good luck from us yellow peeps some times."

Min, you're not the first person to say so. I'll tell you what though. I'm playing the lotto tomorrow. It's up to 45 million.