We’ve made it through the first weekend of “The Producers” at Baytown Little Theater. There was a great deal of doubt among the cast about whether or not we’d be ready in time, but we made it. The show has been going really well, and audiences seem to be receiving it well.

You still have two weekends left, so hurry up and buy your tickets!

Google has a fun addition to their map software called Latitude. Basically, it figures out your location, and allows people you specify to see that location on a map.

They’ve put out a cute “toy” to advertise it. You can see it at http://services.google.com/latitudevideo/view.html#n0CvZxmd5m0Ehmc5z05s0CvZxmd

For once, this is an app that works on my phone (Windows Mobile) but NOT on Wendy’s iPhone. At least, not yet. She’s stuck with using it on her MacBook.

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Too true. Anyone who’s had kids in the last 20 years or so will probably recognise the pattern.

Forget July 7^th, 2007 (07/07/07), August 8^th, 2008 (08/08/08) or even the upcoming September 9^th, 2009 (09/09/09). Real geeks know that today, at 5:31 PM (well, 30 seconds AFTER that) central time is the REAL date pattern to watch: At that time, the time will be recorded as

1234567890

Those other dates will happen again in 100 years, but 1234567890 will never happen again.

For my non-geek friends (both of you), that sequence of digits represents the number of seconds since January 1, 1970 in Greenwich, England, which is how Unix-based system record calendar dates and times. So don’t blink – the celebration lasts for only one second.

This video came in on The Onion video feed. The concept was funny enough, but I literally laughed out loud when reading through the list of “symptoms” that can be treated with “Despondex.”

The world is finally safe!

This is an actual promo video from Microsoft for a new product called “SongSmith.” I’m in awe.

The acting is terrible. The songs are annoying. And this is supposed to make me interested in this product? (I’ve also heard it mentioned that the laptop the daughter is using is actually a Mac, which isn’t supported by the product, but I’m not sure about that.

Edit: To be completely fair, I have to admit that this did have some effect. I’ve downloaded the app, and I’ll probably play around with it for a bit. So I guess I shouldn’t laugh too hard. But it’s still so bad it’s funny.