All this while I’ve been using Ubuntu on my Thinkpad and have been very happy with only a few minor complaints such as the non-functional multi-monitor utility and compiz fusion not working until 8.10. Now I decided to give KDE a try so I installed Kubuntu-desktop and logged into KDE 4.1!!! Oooh drool!!! The unreleased Windows 7 (scroll down to milestone 3) is already behind. See my new desktop after a few minor tweaks and adding a few plasmoids (screen widgets).
Just got off the phone with an Alltel Rep and The HTC Touch Diamond is launching next week on Alltel - there is even a page on the Alltel site for it. The rep hadn’t even heard of the Touch Pro. So I hung up and called again and the next rep who picked up hinted indirectly that they will have the Touch Pro and it is undergoing testing now but he couldn’t disclose when it releases or what the cost will be. For a change Alltel is going to get some latest phones! Hopefully they are priced decently. The plans are nice. 69.99 for 500 minutes, unlimited data. 40$ for the second line sharing the minutes, unlimited data. Plus if you are at the University of Virginia you get 15% off.
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I drove back from DC to Charlottesville yesterday and gas prices at most of the pumps on 29 was between $2.999 and $3.099. As soon as you enter Charlottesville, prices are above $3.369. Why the nearly 40c difference within a few miles? Anybody with ideas on where to report this gouging please contact me. This was even reported on the news, but gas stations seem to be shamelessly unaffected.
Brown Honda of Charlottesville, I will never buy a car from you thanks to your shitty automated spam. I own a Nissan bought at Colonial and I’ve been to them several times and even they don’t phone spam me. I go to Brown Honda once for a state inspection and I have to deal with your stupid automated phone calls at work. I will never get anything done from you again and I will never buy a car from you.
We were in DC last weekend for our skin test (got an RFE from USCIS for that - even though we had submitted negative xrays last time and we are known positives for the skin test) and ate at Wah Taj, which is the complex neigboring the one with Minerva and Curry N Kabob.
The Indian Chinese at Wah Taj was fantastic - the Chili Paneer was exellent and reminded me of Bombay and the rest of the chinese food was really good to. We also got takeout Indian from there and that was also good but not really spectacular.
The next day we ate at Hot Breads in NoVA, which was a disappointment after the excellent experience with Hot Breads in Richmond the previous weekend. The NoVA one didn’t have much of a menu, no dosas, no Indian Pizzas, just a few sandwiches and Pav Bhaji. The Pav Bhaji was just ok, the sandwiches were also just ok. The Richmond Hot Breads dosas were good and Pizza was also nice.
An update on Curry N Kabob, our old favorite in Herndon from a friend who lives close by - he stopped going there because he once found a cockroach in his food. Yikes! It still tastes as good though but eat at your own risk.
On Sunday as a change from spicy Indian food we went to a brunch place called “Waffle King’s Virginia Kitchen” and I have to say I have never eaten such bad waffles. My waffle was chewy and leathery - I would rather eat a Frozen toaster waffle than this again. I though it might just be mine but everyone elses waffles were the same. The only good thing here was the fresh sqeezed orange juice.