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Andy Powell has posted a couple entries on restaurants in Atlanta.
Restaurant guide 1 and here . I’m going to add a few yummy eats. FYI, Atlanta has a TON, as in a TONNE, as in a whole freakin bunch of restaurants.

CNN Center - right inside is a food court containing a few mall type eateries as well as a Jocks and Jills, a great Atlanta sports bar fav.

A short hike away, well short ride away, is the Mid Town area home to many a eatery. Here is a short list of them Midtown Eats. I’ll high lite a few from personal experience:

• Front Page News a Nawlins styled eatery
• Fuego cafe and Tapas, a Cuban eatery with yummy cubans and of course real mojitos
• The Flying Biscuit near Piedmont Park
• Nickiemotos near the park too where you can get your sushi on.
• Apres Diem is also near the park with a awesome environment, artsy-eclectic. Where Apres Diem is there is a bar serving tater tots! Also, used to be a great tex-mex place there with the best margaritas in Atlanta, can’t recall the name though, but its easy to literally stumble out of there and fall over in the park.
• Azio The best Tiramisu!
• Vortex can’t leave them off any list of Atlanta eats

Also not far is the Poncey-Highlands-Little Five points area. This link here is a start, but there are many more. The Highlands has some nice eats, not all on the cheap. Some live music too. A couple spots I’ll suggest are:

• Eats! THE cheap eat. Yummy Jerk chicken or fresh pasta on the cheap. Its kind of on the edge of the highlands area and not the greatest neighborhood, day light time should be no prob
• Atkins Park good bar food, not cheap though, live music too.
• Hand in Hand awesome Brit Pubs in Atlanta. Had a Brit friend mildly surprised at it. I saw one of the final world cup games at one of these, packed out wall-to-wall people screaming and drinking beer at 7AM!!!!
• Noche great tapas and margaritas, good selection of tequila. There is a really nice Italian place right next to Noche too, can’t recall the name though.

Well that lists out quite a bit. Many of these are a brisk walk away from the CNN center area, meaning a mile or so. Near the CNN center is the downtown area where Azio is. Also there is a Hooters, yeehaw! A couple other nice places to eat around there too. Atop the Westin cylinder hotel is a revolving cafe, nice scenic place for some adult beverages. If you really want to go over the top, check out Nikolai’s Roof really nice place to eat with a view. Reservations are required and just don’t ask about price, its high.

HTH!
peas

DK

Check out that Flex uber pirate Doug McCune’s site for some 360|Flex Atlanta bling action.
http://dougmccune.com/blog/2008/01/26/got-my-bling-for-360flex/

Why haven’t you registered for 360|Flex yet, eh?

360|Flex Atlanta, February 25-27, is the place to learn about Flex and AIR from
Adobe and community speakers. Included in the price of registration is a free
pre-conf, all day training session on Flex 101. We’re the premiere Flex and AIR
conference. $480 for one or $1500 for a 4-person team. Visit http://360flex.com

The 360|Flex schedule was posted a short while back. You can check it out here: 360|Flex Schedule

Are you booked, scheduled, and en-route yet? Why not? Check it out below. Did you see that price? Yeah, like something off of one of those daily Dell coupon sites, eh? Even at twice that price its well worth it. Some come on, start nagging that boss!

360|Flex Atlanta - February 25-27, 2008

This 3-day conference is the place to learn about Flex and AIR from
Adobe and community speakers. Sunday before the conference we’ll be
offering an all day Flex 101 session, included in the price of
registration. That’s right, a pre-conference all day training session
on Flex. 360|Flex is the premiere Flex and AIR conference. We were the
first Flex conference and we’re still growing and getting better.
Don’t miss out, only $480 for an individual or $1500 for a 4-person
team. More details can be found at http://360flex.com

Mr. Ben Forta is heading to Atlanta for the tour. Please come and join us at the January 22nd Atlanta Flex and Flash User Group. Check out the link after the break for the full details and please be kind and RSVP.

http://www.affug.org

peas

gosh, I really need to blog more often, eh? Well its a new year, so maybe…nope, this ain’t gonna be one of those ‘hop on the I am posting my new years resolutions bandwagon’ posts!

Ok, so, I’m a dude in IT. Naturally I dig electronics. That said, I have a really slow acceleration on uptake So, I don’t have a iPod, iPhone, well nor a Mac for that matter. I did finally break down and buy a wireless mouse. After snooping around the net for months I finally went to a store to get physical as it were. The top three mice to look at on my list were all Logitech brands: MX Revolution, VX Revolution, and the Nano. When up front and in person, the Nano is too small for daily use. Sure would be great for a traveling lappy user though. The store was out of MX revolutions, so I snagged the VX. After two days I was convinced it was too small. So I hit a Fry’s and snagged the MX Revolution. Holy Mouse Traps Batman! This thing is expensive! Well, considering its the first mouse I purchased in ~8 years, I was a daily user of a 3-button Logitech forever, $99 doesn’t sounds so bad.

The mouse is totally schweeeet! Glides nice and has a good weight to it. Kind of heavy actually, but to me that’s good. It has ample buttons including a thumb button that looks like a wheel, it has three positions. Oh, and speaking of the wheel, interesting. It has a auto sensing switch that based on the speed at which you are spinning the wheel switches between freewheelin or coastin. Odd way to explain it, eh? Basically it goes from a wheel that has positions as you roll it to none. Why is this cool? In freewheelin mode you can traverse say 50 pages of a Word doc in seconds. You can set the threshold of the switch in the SetPoint tools.

The cons? Price! When you press one of the two switches on the left side used by your thumbs the mouse can literally lift up a bit. The other thing, seems the SetPoint software is conflicting with Dreamweaver, which I use minimally anyhoo.

ok….next up is a keyboard. Any suggestions? No split keyboards for me, I can’t touch type. A couple of reasons why I can’t, but that’s another post.

peas