Phew! What a hectic week it has been. On Wednesday and Thursday, I was in Redmond… and this is what Avis gave me to drive:

Uh, thanks for the upgrade guys. I’ve always wanted to look like a livery/senior citizen/cop.

Actually a few people slowed down as I zoomed towards them – of course that could just be typical Washington state driver behavior.

Some other quick notes:

-On Wednesday I visited Dan and Nicole’s house in Bellevue. WOW. WOW. WOW. Truly an awesome place. With a fantastic view that you could never have here in the Bay Area. (Well, without being Bill, Warren, Sergei, or Larry.)

-On Thursday I took a course (my main reason for going) and there I met Gretchen Ledgard in real life. Neato!

-The flight back from SEA-SJC on Alaska was unbelievably packed. And late, as usual. I don’t think there’s ever been a time when I was on the last flight of the day and it wasn’t packed. I’m so glad I have elite status on a partner airline though and can board early – they were bumping carry-on’s off the flight like crazy!

Retail Software License Terms

Find Retail Software License Terms

This is a pretty neat site – you can get the license terms (you know, the boring legalese that few ever read?) for almost any shipping Microsoft Retail Product.

You know how some people complain you can’t find out the terms until you’ve opened the software? Well, now you can with this website!

Here’s the one for Office for Mac 2004 Professional (English).

Figures.

So this Wednesday I’ll be going up to SEA again, and next Friday (not this Friday) I’ll be going to BWI for my 5th year reunion (SJC-SEA-DFW-BWI!!)

Wow that’s a lot of flying right?

Well, unfortunately, it’s still not enough to earn me Platinum on American Airlines for next year.

According to my mileage tracking spreadsheet, I will meet this goal by the required date of 12/31/2005 if one of the 5 scenarios below occur:

1. I make 16 roundtrips to Redmond by EOY. Not likely!

2. I make 12 r/t’s to Redmond and 1 r/t’s to NY by EOY. Not likely!

3. I make 8 r/t’s to Redmond and 2 r/t’s to NY by EOY. Possible.

4. I make 5 r/t’s to Redmond and 3 r/t’s to NY by EOY. Maybe.

5. I make 1 r/t to Redmond and 4 r/t’s to NY by EOY. No way!

It looks like a mileage run is in my future. Hello Zurich?

Anyone want to go on a mileage run with me?

Jimmy Grewal’s Weblog: Things I saw today…

I saw two interesting things today. A very rare G-Wagen (I think only a dozen or so of this type were ever built), and two very rich and powerful men going for a stroll through the food court I was having lunch in.

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Steve Ballmer (President & CEO of Microsoft Corp.) with HH Sheikh Mohammed (Crown Prince & CEO of Dubai, Inc.) touring Dubai Internet City:

Click on the link for the pictures. Ah the things Jimmy sees over there.

I wonder if he’s seen the new robot jockeys that are going to be used in camel races…

Update: Here’s a link to a picture of the Dubai Internet City.

It’s a bit surreal to have the IBM building right next to the Microsoft building like that…

Sprint PCS Info – AT&T: Text Message Email Change

As of April 24, yournumber@mobile.att.net will no longer work. To continue forwarding email messages to your phone, change to yournumber@mmode.com instead. This is due to April 24 being the day that Cingular must hand over the AT&T Wireless name back to AT&T.

Good to know!

Wow check out all these fun statistics on this site!

Like this one:

Top 100 Cities with Highest Median House Value (pop. 5000+)

1. Montecito, California ($1,000,001)
2. Hillsborough, California ($1,000,001)
3. Palm Beach, Florida ($1,000,001)
4. Tiburon, California ($1,000,001)
5. Saratoga, California ($1,000,001)
6. Atherton, California ($1,000,001)
7. Beverly Hills, California ($1,000,001)
8. Malibu, California ($1,000,001)
9. Woodside, California ($1,000,001)
10. Kings Point, New York ($1,000,001)

Figures.

Top 100 Cities with Highest Ratio of Median House Value to Median Household Income (pop. 5000+)

1. Isla Vista, California (24.91)
2. Stanford, California (21.18)
3. Aspen, Colorado (18.60)
4. Beverly Hills, California (14.10)
5. Santa Monica, California (12.34)
6. Miami Beach, Florida (12.24)
7. Kiryas Joel, New York (12.09)
8. Twin Lakes, California (11.16)
9. Palm Beach, Florida (10.58)
10. Strawberry, California (10.47)

Top 100 Least-Safe Cities (Highest City-data.com crime index) (pop. 5000+)

1. Markham, Illinois (2405.7)
2. East St. Louis, Illinois (2030.0)
3. Washington Park, Illinois (1867.2)
4. Hammond, Louisiana (1689.7)
5. Ocean City, Maryland (1463.4)
6. Florida City, Florida (1433.5)
7. Lancaster, South Carolina (1316.5)
8. Emeryville, California (1314.7)
9. St. Louis, Missouri (1259.5)
10. Wildwood, New Jersey (1245.6)

Surprisingly Baltimore is at 40.

Top 100 Cities with the Largest Percentage of Females (pop. 2000+)

1. St. Joseph, Minnesota (68%, Median age: 21.8, pop. 4681)
2. Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania (68%, Median age: 22.5, pop. 4382)
3. Dugway, Utah (68%, Median age: 19.8, pop. 2016)
4. Lima, Pennsylvania (67%, Median age: 79.1, pop. 3225)
5. Rossmoor, New Jersey (67%, Median age: 76.8, pop. 3129)
6. Chowchilla, California (66%, Median age: 34.1, pop. 11127)
7. Laguna Woods, California (66%, Median age: 78.0, pop. 16507)
8. Rossmoor, Maryland (66%, Median age: 76.9, pop. 7569)
9. Leisure Village, New Jersey (65%, Median age: 72.0, pop. 4443)
10. Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania (65%, Median age: 36.1, pop. 2363)

Heh… Bryn Mawr.

Anyway, check out the site for more fun stats!

2-01 Charge for changing long distance carrier: 5.26
2-02 Change Local Toll to Same Long Distance Carrier Discount Rate: 2.49

Wow… $7.75 to enter a few numbers. It’s amazing what the local phone companies get away with.