Life sure isn’t fun when the power is out. Good thing I still have an analog phone line!

One of those silly memes came around…

AA FA stop pax demands to see passport

Contrary to popular perception, embassies are still the sovereign territory of the country in which they are located, not of the country whose diplomatic mission is housed there. That is why an office building can host an embassy on some floors and, say, a bank on others.

The reason for the perception is that the Vienna Conventions mean that the local government foreswears the right to enter an embassy. However, it does not change sovereign territory.

Say, for example, that a baby is born in the U.S. Embassy to Ickystan. That child does not gain U.S. citizenship by virtue of birth in the U.S.- it was born in Ickystan.

I did not know that.

Scott has a pretty nifty post on the name of AJAX:

Scott’s "SiteExperts" Place: Talking about "The Real AJAX Upside"

Naming was never my specialty. Very little known tidbit. When I wrote the first DHTML draft specification, I named it “Active HTML” (I will leave it up to you to figure out why this is a bad name back in 1997). How did it change to “Dynamic” – from looking up Active in a thesaurus.
However, Dynamic HTML as a name served its purpose well in the late 90′s. I do believe remarketing the existing technology as Ajax was a necessity for the community/ industry. Can you imagine all the new startups going for VC capital having to explain their cool new web innovations is based on 8 year old technology ?

Hah.

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Anything I Think Up…
Can be blasted to your customers over their cell phones, BlackBerries and Treos. Yes, after years of doing pop-up ads and spam on PCs, we have formed a new firm to specialize in harassing people via their cell phones!

Walt Mossberg decided to give Office Live a spin, but creating a fake website. It’s pretty funny – check it out.

Jimmy Grewal’s Weblog ? I’m certainly not James Bond…

This is my new 2006 Aston Martin V8 Vantage, in Mercury Silver with two-tone Obsidian Black and Chancellor Red leather interior. Here are some pics of it alongside my 2004 Mercedes-Benz G55 AMG which is now for sale:

Buyer should probably be in Dubai.

Wow that was a pretty good episode of The Shield tonight!

A Long Island Solution to Far East Stress – New York Times

As of last year, the overall Great Neck school population was 20 percent Asian. At Great Neck South High School, one of two high schools in the district, the Asian population was more than 30 percent.

“Could we become a majority Asian district in 10 years?” mused Ronald Friedman, the superintendent of Great Neck schools. “Who knows? It’s possible.”

Uh oh… is my old high school of Great Neck South going to become Cupertino and suffer from the new flavor of White Flight? Will all the bagels and bialys be replaced with cha siu bao?

One thing’s for sure- the old saying “you can’t go home again” is certainly true.