Scott Elkin

Author: Scott

  • A Parent Must Have: Flip Video Camcorder

    Every parent goes through a video phase where they want to document their kids life. Most realize pretty fast that their $1,000 HD video camera purchase was a waste since: It’s a pain carrying around the video camera Extemporanous moments don’t happen because to catch it you would be forced to shoot ALL the time. No one…

  • Ebay’s Paypal Shipping Is Raping You

    I just sold an old video camera on ebay for $203. The buyer paid via paypal, and normally my next step is to go into paypal to print the shipping information. This time instead of presenting me with the buyers shipping information, Paypal prompted me to try to their new UPS Shipping solution.  Paypal said…

  • How to Eat in the Apple Store

    I just happened to look and see Phoenix doing this out of the corner of my eye.  It turns out he was doing this each time I gave him another cheesy.

  • Google Reader Broken In Firefox

    Google unveiled their new “Notes” feature yesterday, and ever since I can’t use it in Firefox 2 (even Safe Mode). This is what I see: The errors below it are: in file 1104796821-en-scr… (line 205) missing } after function body var Zs=”entry-via-link”;Qs.prototype.gC=function(a,b){if(!a||a.length==0)return;… in file reading-list (line 111) _FR_scrollMain is not defined var userId = “GR-”…

  • Twittering Samantha’s Delivery

    In order to keep everyone updated as often as they want to be informed, I am twittering the pregnancy from this stage forward.

  • Nasty IIS/ASP Querystring Cookie Case Bug

    I just stumbled on a nasty, nasty ASP bug that took about 7 years for me to see. The problem happens when using cookies and querystrings with the same name. A page on the site reads in a variable from the querystring and sets a cookie with the same name to its value, e.g.: strSrc…

  • Mike Goldberg Quotes

    “Travis Lutter is the Michael Jordan of Brazilian Jiu-jitsu!” – Mike Goldberg “Matt and Mark (Hughes) used to pound each other on the farm as young boys.” – Mike Goldberg

  • Blackberry Dead Battery Problem

    Since I bought my Blackberry 8830 from Sprint, I have been on and off having a dead battery half way through my day.  In fact, just last week I thought of taking it back. I had noticed that I would take my phone out of my pocket and it would be slightly warm, like it…

  • The 200 Dollar PC Christmas

    It certainly seems to be shaping up to be a Christmas filled with $200 Computers: OLPC: (Although you will have to buy 2 – one for you and one for charity – to own one.) Walmart Green gPC: (Already sold out on Walmart.com) Asus eee Laptop: (Who wouldn’t want a laptop for $200?)

  • 15 Month Old Guitar Hero

    Can I be any prouder? Now playing: Angels & Airwaves – Everything’s Magic