Outstanding Advertising
These are by far the funniest commercials I’ve seen for a car dealership in some time. Absolutely outstanding. 1 and 4 are my personal favorites.
Trunk Monkey Commercials
Dell 2405FPW for $779 again!
It’s back! $779 buys you 24″ of 1920×1200 real estate on your desk!
Use coupon code D8Q403R9G4FJ32 for 35% off.
Update: WFQ9X9GW1VT?2R for 35% off.
Update again: 69$8KC79D53S2H for 35% off.
Final update: I’m guessing that’s it for this quarter.
The world has ended.
First Intel CPUs and now a “four button” mouse from Apple? I must say it’s about time somebody used a ball for the wheel, hey look a mouse with a trackball! 
I’m starting to think Apple really is serious about courting Windows users over to their camp this time. Slick little reasonably priced computer? Check. Two (or more) button mouse available? Check. The same Intel processors available with Windows so fights over speed are nearly pointless? Check (soon). Change your mind and decide you can’t live without Windows, reformat to Windows-only or dual-boot? Sounds like it, check.
Dell 2405FPW Insanity
Wowsers. So I bought one of the Dell 24″ monsters (2405FPW) and it arrived this week. Just plain crazy, the thing absolutely dwarfs everything around it. I LOVE IT! Best thing I’ve bought computer-wise in ages. When I saw it for $779 (the best deal I’ve seen on it yet, and so much cheaper than Apple’s 23″ Cinema Display) I just had to snap one up. If you’ve got $800-900 lying around, treat yourself to one of these monster LCDs from Dell, regret it you won’t.
I of course happen to have an HDTV card in my computer and can watch over the air broadcasts. Back at 1280×960 on my old monitor I could really only see 720p at full resolution, now at 1920×1200 on the monster I can see full 1080i in all its glory, and glorious it is. If you’ve got a reasonable fast computer and a high-res display, be sure and check out the High Definition WMV files from Microsoft at their WMV HD Showcase. Available downloads at 720p and 1080p that are a sight to behold. Apple also has an HD Gallery for their new QuickTime 7 format (still in beta for Windows-based computers), also gorgeous, though they don’t appear to let you try 1080p on Windows (yet?).
WordPress Plugin: Editor Search 1.3
Just a quick note announcing an update to my WordPress Plugin, Editor Search, now at version 1.3.
Word searching now wraps in both Firefox and Internet Explorer. I also made a small usability improvement (I think) in this version, when you click in one of the input boxes, the other will clear. Now you won’t be searching for ‘Firefox’ and still have the line number 5 in your other entry box. It was annoying me so I fixed that.
I’ve also added the option to include the javascript externally, though it is off by default. For more details and to download the plugin, head on over to its permanent home with the link below.
