I've been playing around with the concept of visualizing time recently. Maybe one day I'll even release the app I've been writing to the rest of the world, but for the time being: Does anyone have any interesting ways of visualizing time that I haven't run across yet?

I'm finally enjoying some time off, I'm sure in a week when I head back to work I'll be wondering where all the time went.

I'm sure the entire insurance industry operates like this, but I had a fun experience with Aflac:

"Will I be covered if event happens?"
"Most likely, it depends on your exact medical history and how hard you squint when you read the coverage."
"Here's my exact medical history, how does it apply?"
"I'm just a customer support rep; you're only allowed to talk to the claims adjusters when you actually make a claim, not now."
"So, you can't tell me if I'll be covered if event happens?"
"Correct."

It's easier to cancel than pay to play that particular game.

I've had a Facebook account for a while now, and I finally decided that their RSS feed isn't nearly rich enough. Since I'm me, I decide to use their publically available API to write my own app that will access my Facebook account and provide a much richer RSS feed.

What's the end result? I've learned a very valuable lesson. If I ever want to write a wildly popular site that gives access to third party developers make the API as confusing as possible, then make sure to make the documentation as confusing as possible. Apparently developers all over the world will take this as a personal challenge to write useful applications in a hostile environment.

Now that the weather has finally restored itself to sanity, I'm starting to feel like I might have a cold coming on.

This is perfect, it's as if my body can't handle the super cold weather of 75 degrees. Grr.

It's officially too hot. I really don't want to see triple digit temperatures again when I get into the car. Of course, I didn't get to see the temperature for too long, since once I got into the car I started to melt.

I can't deal with the heat, so here's a dose of a too-cute dog to take my mind off of things.