Author: Ben

I purchased a gift card from Victoria’s Secret today, and I noticed I was charged sales tax on the gift card.  This has never happened to me before, as tax is usually taken at the time of redemption for the gift card, not when the gift card is purchased.  I also purchased gift cards from American Eagle and Simon’s Mall today, and neither charged me sales tax on the card.  I’ve got an e-mail in with Vickie’s; I guess we’ll see what happens.

Has this happened to anyone else?  Is it normal?  Taxation and internet sales are often odd bedfellows, but I’m pretty sure this is wrong.  Anyone know for sure?

As seen during our trip to Pittsburgh to see Candyce and Andy.  I had a nice little walk around south side, up into the slopes, then back down and up Carson.  It started spitting snow and freezing rain about halfway through, but it was still good to get out and wander around.  I really enjoyed Pittsburgh; it seems like a good place, if a bit run down.  I’m looking forward to getting back and wandering around sometime in the spring or fall when the weather is a bit more cooperative.  Anyone know of any good photo places in Pittsburgh?

Chet sent me a link to some pretty cool implementations of logic gates using LEGO. If only they’d made us do this in EE270 lab. Bread boards were fun, but LEGO rules!

Well now, this little toolset sure looks interesting, if only for the code contained within. Some pre-built code to create Application Pools and such sure would be handy.

While Brian and I were trying to figure out what color is green’s opposite, he found a really cool color wheel written in Javascript. Handy!