Offering my nearly new baby for sale, as it has gotten too loud. It is a male baby, nearly 28 inches long and can be used either in a baby carrier or a stroller.

That is how the ad read on eBay, after the 23-year-old mother and 24-year-old-father placed that listing. The parents live near, Unterallgäu, southwestern part of Bavaria, Germany. They posted the ad as a joke, and that joke got their new baby boy taken away from them.

Case dropped against parents who put baby on eBay from the AP reports $1.59 EURO sale price got them into big trouble over "possible child trafficking." But after the prosecutor dug deeper, he learned that this was really just a joke that went bad.

How long did this couple have their kid taken from them? "Several days" reports the AP who spoke with the parent's deputy chief of youth services.

How crazy!

Click on it to see my demo:

Neat!

Here is a picture of this bottle of water, after taking it out of my trunk:

I have no idea how long I left it in my car, but the heat clearly got to it. The corner of the trunk this water was in, was pretty damp.

You see what happens when you work 18 hour days and have no life? You blog about water bottles shriveling up. :)

I called the mall to find out if they are open 24/7 and they are. So now I need to decide if I dare sleep in the mall or just get there extremely early.

The mall does have both an Apple Store and AT&T store. I prefer to go to the Apple store, cause that is part of the whole experience. So that will be my first choice. The Apple Store is F1 (labeled with the green bow), the AT&T store is H1. They are both on the same level, each about 5 minutes from each other.

I'll have my computer and wireless broadband card with me. So I will do my morning blogging from the mall. I will also provide cover the iPhone day event from the Palisades Center Mall.

I still have several decisions to make:

(1) Sleep over?
(2) If not sleeping over, what time to I get to the Apple Store?
(3) If Apple Store is a zoo, do I take the risk of trying the AT&T store and lose my spot at the Apple Store?
(4) If it is a long wait, do I pack food?
(5) Do I get the 8GB or 16GB version? White or black? (probably black).

Here is Patrick's demo:

As I drove up, some got a bit startled, but when they noticed that I slowed down, they decided to proceed. They weren't all crossing the road, they were traveling westward on the street. So after a few seconds, I decided to honk my horn.

That worked. It took several honks, but it got them off the street.

I don't think I have ever seen so many ducks, period. Them being on the street is also not all that normal.

If I was some type of crazy nut, maybe I would have run them over. Reminded me of a movie I saw on a serial killer. Then I got sad when I thought about that.

AT&T Inc. today announced iPhone 3G pricing for new and existing AT&T customers, several attractive voice and data plans, and tips on how to be "iReady" when iPhone 3G goes on sale at AT&T retail stores at 8 a.m. local time on Friday, July 11.

Yea, that is 8am local time.

So I just emailed the guy I had a meeting with on July 11th to postpone. Hope he is cool with that.

As of right now, I will be a line waiter, waiting for the iPhone, on July 11th.

If you want to wait with me, please do let me know.

Update: Meeting officially postponed!

On Sunday, the upstairs A/C stopped cooling the upstairs level again. It reached 79.5 degrees in my bedroom that night, thankfully we have a ceiling fan (thanks Mom & Dad).

The AC guys came back Monday morning. He told me that the last time he came (a week before) the Freon levels were perfect. But today, the levels were out of whack. He said that he wants to totally vacuum out everything from the unit. All Freon, air, dust, moisture, and so on. Then he wants to reset or recharge the compressor (I guess by leveling the new Freon levels).

So he hooked up a machine that looks like the image above to the unit. He let it run pretty much all day. Then at the end of the day, he came back with a crew of people to "recharge" the air conditioning unit. By that time, it was 84 degrees in the upstairs level. At about 6pm, they finished and said it was working. It was one degree less, now at 83. 30 minutes later, down to about 80 degrees, then at about 7pm down to 78. By 9pm or so, it was down to the temperature I set it at, I think 73 degrees. The upstairs level was cooled!

Does it mean that it is was fixed? I hope so, but I am not too confident.

Here is the history:

- Sunday, June 8th, first A/C outage. We had to sleep on the sofa downstairs for a few days, until the guy was able to come and fix it, temporarily, on Wednesday the 11th.

- Thursday, June 12th, it broke again. The guy came back Friday, the 13th, to level the Freon again. It now was working again and lasted for a while.

- Sunday, June 22nd, it broke again. The guy came back the next day to fix it. He leveled the Freon levels again.

- Sunday, June 29th, it broke again. The guy came yesterday, June 30th. This time he said he will vacuum it out, as described above.

Will it last or will it break? I am not confident and I am concern. I would hate to have guests sleep over and it break. That is the worse case scenario.

In terms of money... This should not cost me anything. The units are brand new and are covered.

Too funny, I am just about finishing up this post and the AC guy called me to check in. He said, he wanted to check in and see if it is cooling. I said yes. He said, he doesn't think he will need to come back, but since they did the Freon thing during hot weather, it may need to be leveled again. He said, call him if it is needed. And he apologized again. Wow, that was nice to hear.

So I am not confident in it working for the long haul, but I am confident in the company coming back when/if it breaks.

The short story is that this company's server room is now part of the office's bathroom. Too make a long story short, the company had to switch offices. But the new office in the building did not have room for a server room. So they put the server room in a closet that is only accessible through the woman's bathroom.

Here is the email from the building management company:

As you all are aware, we have new tenants that have moved into the 2nd floor suites. The access to the server room is now via the women’s bathroom.

There will be a sign on the woman’s door that can be changed
from OPEN to CLOSED and vice versa.

Should you need to enter the server room, please change the sign
to CLOSED. Once you are done, please change it back to OPEN.

Once you enter the bathroom, you will be able to access the
server room via the handicapped stall. Please close the stall
door prior to entry, just in case someone doesn’t see that the
bathroom is closed.

I know this isn’t ideal, but if we adhere to this protocol, I
don’t think anyone will be disrupted.

Thanks! Let me know if you have any questions.

And I was complaining about moving domains to a new server. Imagine if I had to move my servers into a bathroom.

I got a green tie, I don't have many green ties.

In any event, I really want this 8-bit tie. Maybe one day, someone will buy it for me and Ill have an excuse to wear it.