March 3rd, 2005, Early Evening | permalink

Flickr: Falcon in Docking BayMichael Heilemann has posted this and two other high resolution images of Ralph McQuarrie’s Star Wars concept art from the mid 70′s in his Flickr photostream. It’s quite amazing how close the special effect guys got to recreating this painting.

Now to find a suitable printer…

And I’m starting to love this Flickr “Blog This” feature in case you didn’t already guess.

Falcon in Docking Bay

Originally uploaded by Michael Heilemann.

March 3rd, 2005, Early Afternoon | permalink

An investment firm and a sports advisory company have reportedly made a joint proposal to buy all 30 NHL teams for $3.5 billion. “When someone’s offering over $3 billion, we felt we had an obligation to the board to have them, at least, hear it from the proposed purchaser.”

March 3rd, 2005, Late Morning | permalink

Forget Jason Kottke, donate to the cause of saving Toby the Rabbit. If his owner doesn’t get $50,000 by the end of June, Toby will become a mid-summer meal…

March 2nd, 2005, Late Evening | permalink

Flickr: March 2005 Free Yahoo Ice CreamYahoo celebrated today by giving away coupons for free ice cream at Baskin Robbins, so we took advantage of it… Hey, we’re not going to turn down free ice cream, especially from Baskin Robbins.

So we all got one free scoop, Phil and I got Very Berry Strawberry and Erika got some chocolate, mint & Oreo combination the name of which eludes me.

March 2005 Free Yahoo Ice Cream

Originally uploaded by WebErika.

March 2nd, 2005, Evening Time | permalink

Blo.gs is up for sale. I wonder how much it will go for and what will become of the service when it’s all said and done…

March 2nd, 2005, Evening Time | permalink

Yahoo turns 10 today with a netrospective. 10 years and 100 moments of the web.

March 2nd, 2005, Early Evening | permalink

Star Trek fans have raised $3m so far as part of a campaign to save “Enterprise.” Fairly impressive, unfortunately they need $30m to bankroll another season…

March 2nd, 2005, Late Afternoon | permalink

How to turn a mild mannered blog into an explosion of pink in one style tag. Yes, I was bored at the time and curious to see if it would work… Unfortunately for Hanni, it did.

March 1st, 2005, Late at Night | permalink

Flickr: July 2003 Phil & CharlieThis is a quick test post from Flickr to see if the “blog this” functionality works.

This is a picture of Erika’s with Phil and Charlie, cute no?

I’m not sure how often I’ll use this, but at least it works, so it’s there as a standby of sorts…

July 2003 Phil & Charlie

Originally uploaded by WebErika.

March 1st, 2005, Late at Night | permalink

Another Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy trailer. April 29th can’t come soon enough thanks to this expertly crafted trailer…

March 1st, 2005, Mid-Afternoon | permalink

Alex King is running a cometition for WordPress 1.5 themes. You may notice a familiar looking one there, it’s a bastardised version of Scam City version 7.0 minus all the bells and whistles I used to make it work the way I wanted…