The Olde Ashton Family Blog

I really don’t have anything against Paris Hilton, but I am kind of inclined to agree with this journalist, and say that there is MUCH more important news than Paris getting out of jail. Boo Hoo!

Another cool video of my favorite car! We sold our 1992 Mustang LX 5.0 last year to raise capital for our computer repair business, and can not wait until we get another one. It also has one of my favorite car designers of all time, Carol Shelby.

and another one from all the way in 1998

Microsoft has come out with a pretty cool table that can replace the normal computer that is in your living room. They have come out with a whole new way to interact with the table and not use a keyboard or mouse.

Here is a link to the Microsoft site for the table.

A quick video

and of course a parody video, just for fun. Warning – slightly adult language in a few parts of the video.

Taylor went to one of her friends/classmates birthday party. It was a beautiful day, and not too hot. The kids had a great time. They loved the pool and water slide as you can tell!

This guy either has had to much coffee or missed his mental evaluation. If you don’t like watch car racing, I would skip the video, hehe

Via: VideoSift

This post came from Autoblog originally. Here is a quote from the site

UPDATE: Many thanks to all the commenters, who filled in the blanks we didn’t look to Google Video for. The facts, for new arrivals:

* The track is Mid-America Motorplex in Pacific Junction, IA.
* The camera car is a 1980 Porsche 911SC powered by a 3.6L from a 964.
* The ‘Stang he’s chasing is a Saleen. Its driver calls it “Nemesis,” explaining the nature of the taunts.
* The two drivers in the video are brothers.
* It is one of our favorite videos ever.

If you need another reason to be using Firefox, and you are a parent of children under 12, here it is. There is a new extension for Firefox that lets you create and/or approve websites that your children right in the browser. It also allows you to give the children their own username and password to allow different sites for different children.

My daughter is 4 years, and has already fallen in love with getting on the Internet with my wife and I. As she gets older, this will be an excellent tool to help us if we walk away for a few minutes.

Featured Firefox Extension: Approve sites your kid visits with Glubble – Lifehacker

Glubble – A new online experience for the entire family

This is a pretty alarming video of someone sitting in a hotel lobby where there is Free Wireless Internet for their customers, and a “Hacker” or “Hustler” as they are called in England is capturing all of their information. After capturing the information the Hustler uses it to make purchase large ticket items on the Internet.

I can not believe the attitude of TV Executives. If you do not stop your lives, and sit down when they want you to then to hell with what you will watch on TV. They are basically saying that if you want this show brought back, then do not record or Tivo the show, sit there when we tell you to, and watch the show live. Then, you have no way of not watching the commercials.

What would be the difference when people taped the show on VHS? All this shows the public is that you all are a bunch of greedy SOB’s!

CBS exec: Watch Jericho live if you want it to live – TV Squad

Now for the disclaimer: I have not watched this show yet, as I have been caught up with others that I have been watching longer. But, any time that I see this type of bullying, it drives me crazy. I had planned on watch the show on DVD and catching up that way. Now only time will tell…

Another quote I found at Zatz Not Funny!

While I’m pleased to see the show renewed for at least 7 more episodes, I think CBS is a bit misguided on this point. If they need a larger audience, they can help themselves by not scheduling directly opposite American Idol and taking a 2+ month mid-season hiatus. Prior to the nuttiness, I would have also suggested advertising – but they’ve gotten a ton… 25 tons to be exact. And it wouldn’t hurt to figure out how to track time-shifted viewing. DVRs aren’t going away. Quite the opposite: Their penetration and usage will continue to increase.

My favorite cooking show right now has to be Everyday Italian with Giada De Laurentiis. Although, just between you and me, I don’t know if I have ever seen quite so many teeth before…

Everyday Italian – Food Network

Click here to see a directory listing of all of the shows I have downloaded from my Tivo

I have been making some mobile phone ring tones for some friends of mine, and thought I would post this one just in case there are any Parrot Heads out there!

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Margaritaville Ringtone Downloads: 88 times

If you are looking for an easy way to get these ringtones on your phone. You can upload the ringtone to this website, and then go the website on your phone to download the ringtone. I did it with my phone and it took about 1 minute to do everything.

Imserba Wap Uploader

There was only one of these stores, but it was really neat to walk around them and check out all of the geeky stuff.

Discovery Store Closing – Wired News

I have also learned that CompUSA has quietly closed the store near us as well. I would now have to drive 70 or miles to visit a store.

I haven’t watched this show yet, but I must give it a try. This is incredible, and luckily the network has donated all of the “Protest Peanuts” to charity.

‘Jericho’ fans assail CBS with 25 tons of peanuts – CNN.com

I think that this really neat. I had also seen on “I Want That!“, I believe, that you could get wall art of your DNA. You sent it in to a company that would take it from a swab that you rubbed on the inside of your cheek. Thay would make a full size poster and mail it back to you. It was very colorful, but expensive.

The Nobel Prize-winning scientist who helped discover the molecular structure of DNA has become the first person to receive his own personal genome map.

Discovery News – First Personal Genome Map Created

DNA Wall Art

If you have ever lost or locked your keys in your Car, Truck, or SUV you can have someone with the other key chain remote call you on your cell phone. You would then put the phone near the vehicle, they would push the unlock button on the remote, and the locked vehicle should unlock!

Autoblog Link