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A friend of a friend of mine just opened a Tea shop at 1450 S. Broadway in Denver called "Capital Tea". If the drinks are as good as the name then it should be great.

Also, I'm really amazed at this section of Broadway. It's long been "antique row" with Denver's largest assortment of Antique Stores, but now we get Pasquini's italian restaurant and Divino Wine and Spirits which has delicious wines AND super tasty beers. Sidebar: it was at Divinos that I first had a 120 minute IPA from Dogfish Head Brewery YUMMM!

Perhaps this is the result of the future Cherokee Denver and Lionstone Group developments on the old Gates site. Perhaps it's something that Platte Park has had coming for a long time. Either way, I'm just psyched to have these things near my neighborhood.

So, for my birthday the bug bought me a new belt from Patagonia that is not only really cool looking, but also has a built in bottle opener. Now that's just awesome. Thanks, partner.

I'm convinced that 75% of being an expert is the field's vocabulary.

I may say "enable paging is broken" but a usability expert would say "paging enablement discoverability is low". The concept is the same, but the exact problem is much more clear using the right vocabulary.

So, I just found a web design glossary which includes all the words that you should know if you are a "web designer". Yeah. I know them. Well, most of them. But it's handy to have the list and they explanations go into decent detail on the subjects.

There is an organization called Denver International Program that seems to be related to the University of Denver. They offer a variety of services for adult professionals from other countries to come to Denver, have a homestay, and be mentored by a local business.

Seeing as how Nikki and I and our businesses are focused on international trade, cultural literacy, and community this seems like a great organization.

They're having a presentation on June 2nd about Thailand that we'll be attending to see if we can and want to get more involved. Exciting.

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I get asked questions - and now I'm answering them here to share the knowledge beyond the emails.

Today one of my coffee group reported the following:



1. He was trying to sign up for {online service} and was asked the usual

information and also he birth date and sex (not gender, as that only

applies to language usage).



2. He questioned the need for this and tried to submit the request

without it. He was rejected and told to fill out those boxes.



3. He called the {online service} and was told that they do not request that

info, that his browser had added it to their website. He was told that

if he did not believe them, he could try logging on to their website

through another browser and see.



4. He tried using MSN and IE and, lo and behold, the questions were

not there. They had been there when he used AOL.



Our question to you: Is this possible? How can this be?



This is interesting, and very possible.

Possible

There was clearly something malicious going on that didn't involve the {online service} system. It could have been an extra entry in his hosts file or it could have been some software that watches your browser and whenever you type in {online service} it adds in some extra fields and redirects the form to somewhere else. The malicious software could have gotten there from hundreds of different ways including security flaws in IE and/or Windows. It could have gotten there because this person downloaded some "fun" software for their machine and installed that (and the fun software had malicious software inside it).

I knew about the ooextras Sourceforge site that has plenty of fun stuff macro but there are some really pretty templates for presentations at The Linux Box' templates page. My favorite by far is the Squares template, but the chalkboard has a fun feel as well.

How many miles is it from Denver International Airport to LAX with a continuing flight to San Salvador?

According to WebFlyer, it's 6,360 miles roundtrip. And yes, we're going to El Salvador and Hondars this summer for a little vacation :)