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Happy new year!

Barbeque season is around the corner.  I can't wait.  This is an old picture from '04.  May each year get better...

As a preseason warm-up, Denise bought some barbeque before we left for Danny's wedding (shhh!) on Saturday from the grill outside Albertson's.  It was awesome :)

So Hien and Danny got married today.  Nothing much more to say except thanks for letting me be a part of the celebrations.  Hope you guys are having a good time in Hawaii. 

Check out some of the pictures John and Denise took:

Full set is in the gallery
 

These certainly aren't new, but just in case you missed a few, here's a short list of travel tips using free services from Google:

• Check flight status on your cell phone through SMS. You can send a text message to 46643 (daily mnemonics: it spells GOOGLE on the keypad) with any flight number (i.e. NH5) to check the flight status. Google will reference information from flightstats.com and send you a text message response with information about that flight. This trick is good for reconfirming pickup or drop off times before you leave for the airport. Beware of text message charges which may be incurred by your phone company though.
• Google web search can check flight information. If you don't want to check via text message or if you want even more details than the SMS service provides, you can simply search any flight number (i.e. JL 61) on Google's main page. The search results will present a special link to flightstats.com for in-depth statistics and real-time flight tracking.
• Install Picasa. You can load the hundreds of pictures you took into Picasa for light post-processing, tagging, and sorting. You can even attach coordinate tags to your images for integration into a mapping application later.
• Google Earth. Not only can you gain a solid geographical understanding of the places you will visit/visited on your trip, you can also use Google Earth's Geographic Web layer to see community contributed points of interest.
• Localized search. When accessing the internet abroad, Google will typically return localized results for that country. Unfortunately, this means the language displayed will also likely be localized and difficult to understand. To go to an English edition regardless of where you're searching from, simply click 'Google.com in English' found at the bottom of the main page.

Did you know that if you're using Firefox to view html source you can hit f5 directly from the 'source of' window and it'll actually refresh?? Since I still hand-code my markup like the New York Times, this is an infinitely useful little trick. How long has this worked? How come no one told me?

Dman. I'm an idiot.