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Who says LEGO minifigures are just toys? An electronics hobbyist built an o hmmeter out of LEGO bricks and minifigures .

First off, I'm a HUGE fan of snail mail and the post office. Back in grade school and high school, I used the post office a lot, corresponding with friends and relatives around the world. I also made friends with postal workers at the University post office. I even collected stamps. Up to this day, in this age of emails and instant messaging and social networks, I still use the post office. There is this warm feeling you get when you fold paper into an envelope, lick the seal, and rub the stamp. SMTP transactions, RFC 821, 5321, and 5322 don't sound as exciting as the way mail travels down the chute, over conveyor belts, sorted, stacked, stamped, labelled, tied up and bagged, transported over long distances, down rugged roads, across the rivers and oceans, on to your doorstep or mailbox. But enough of nostalgia. I write you today to tell you how much I'm hurt, how I feel so disappointed and betrayed. You see, the packages I expected to arrive a month ago is still ...

I don't quite agree with my good friend that it's too late . There's still time -- there's plenty of time : we, our kids, and the next generations can still make it work . (Nice video, by the way. And, yeah, let's go beyond Earth Hour.)

I recently signed up for the formation of a national bloggers association. The idea generated some hoopla in the social networks, but I guess that's the point: we need a group that will have a single, united voice on issues and policies that affect bloggers and "social" media. If you want to sign up, head over here and read the draft manifesto .

In a Martian landscape. (I know, wrong allusion, but it captures the thought. ;)) (I didn't realize they can breathe on Mars... Wait, it's a LEGO minifigure, duh!) Not a minifigure collectible, but from the LEGO City set 3365 .

I made a few cosmetic changes to my new landing page : It now uses a cool web font, Titillium Text (funny name, heh), using the CSS @font-face property. It also has an equally cool 404 page that gets served by Amazon S3 . $ curl -I http://www.iandexter.net/something HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found x-amz-error-code: NoSuchKey x-amz-error-message: The specified key does not exist. x-amz-error-detail-Key: something x-amz-request-id: 48043A85C5B27307 x-amz-id-2: UlFlcthVTeBk9UF3MxvlpxOS1OtOqbE5VOWt89eQQ8x6EcfsHiPWzeioE3LadVVt Transfer-Encoding: chunked Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 07:52:23 GMT Server: AmazonS3 Nifty LEGO minifigure , too! Go check it out !