Cool iPhone app: Schmap - City Guides

In another round of surfing this evening, came across a cool web app for the iPhone called Schmap. What is so cool is the user interface. It is by far one of the easiest to use city guides I've seen to date. Its not cluttered with info I don't care about. It makes finding information easy. And to boot, once you find the place you are looking for, turn your iPhone on its side to see a map.

Check it out at http://www.schmap.com/

Ester chillin'

Ester chillin'
Originally uploaded by K3bert

I think I know our greyhounds pretty good. I can tell when they need to go outside, when they are about to chase a small animal, pounce on a toy...but, darn it, I can't figure out what Ester is thinking here.

Rockies 3 astros 2 but still had fun

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Originally uploaded by K3bert

had great seats, good beer and lots of fun at the Asros game this weekend. One of the more enjoyable weekends we have had in a while since our home went up for sale. We've had 7 showings in 2 weeks which I think is pretty good for this housing market. We are going to have an open house next weekend. Maybe we'll generate more interest with that! Got to get this house sold and up to Nashville asap!

Gracie and Ester getting ready for bed

Gracie and Ester getting ready for bed
Originally uploaded by K3bert

I was finally able to get a nice portrait of our greys the other night. To bad I only had my iPhone to take the picture with and thus do not have a high resolution for it. But, I wanted to share anyway.

It's official...our home is on the market

If you are moving to, or live in the Houston area and are looking for a new home, we just put ours on the market. And in a completely unbiased opinion, it's a lot of home for the dollar. Check out the MLS listing and all the additional photos I've uploaded on flickr

Ode to credit card payments using machine or human

I travel a lot. And as a result, I fly out of Houston Hobby airport and become very efficient and getting there, parking, and making a fast get-a-way. Something occur to me a few weeks ago as I was peeling out from the parking garage to head home.

When paying for parking, you have a couple of options. You can use an auto teller and swipe your credit card through a machine, or you can do it the old fashion way and interact with a parking attendant who will gladly process your credit card.

The issue is, when I use the machine, I insert my parking ticket followed by the credit card and usually 15 seconds later, a receipt is printed and I retrieve my credit card. Now, in the event that the automatic machine is down (which is often), I have to go to the parking attendant. I give them the parking ticket, a total is calculated, I give him my card, he swipes the card, I wait about 1 minute (I've timed it), he hands me clipboard, sign the receipt, and then get my card back and my copy of the receipt and then I'm out of there.

My question, why is it that I have to sign a receipt when using the parking attendant but do not have to when I use the automatic machine? I've heard that transactions under $25 don't require signatures, but most of the time, my parking ticket is on the order of $50. What gives?

Facebook defined in one sentence

While reading through posts on floort (www.floort.com), someone made the assertion that facebook is useless. As I'm becoming a fan of facebook I had to come up with a counter assertion. Facebook is a portal for and into the lives of people you know.

Is this original? If not, no offense intended but I think its a clever description of it.

Warming up to facebook

Over the last couple of weeks, I have been giving facebook a spin. I must say it is becoming pretty fun. Tonight I hazes my sister for being too old to party so much. I posted my comment on her wall. But as the old sayid goes what goes around comes around.

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kebert
www.k3bert.net

What I hate about the Internet...having to select a date

All to often, when you enter the expiration date of your credit card,
you have to use a drop down list to select the month and year. What is
so annoying that the month is required to be two digits, I.e., 01, 02,
and so on. By using a drop down list, you negate the user from typing
in the date, which is faster than using a mouse to select the date and
it also prevents you from tanning into the field and using the
keyboard to select the date. The Sam thing is seen in the year, but
what makes this even more funny, the dates are limited to the next 5
years. Hmmmm, seems like someone is looking for job security to add
dates once a year to the drop down list.

The samething is often seen with selecting a date. You sometimes need
to click a little button just to have a nifty calendar pop open, and
even worse yet are the web sites that make a post to get the calendar.

Safari 3: “cannot decode raw data” (NSURLErrorDomain:-1015)

Out of the blue, when I launched Safari 3 on my MacBook, I started receiving the error: The error was: “cannot decode raw data” (NSURLErrorDomain:-1015) when trying to access My Yahoo!

To fix, I went to Safari -> Reset Safari and all is happy now