It's bad karma because of the spelling of his name. Cursed, I tell you!

Hill today -- gone tomorrow...

Sounds great. Hopefully, they hired decent waitstaff at the restaurant, so that diners might be able to taste the food. I went during restaurant week and had a two and a half hour wait for entrees.

I haven't had a chance to enjoy a meal at Robert Oliver's, but I hear good things about the food and the space. I think I may stop in some time this month...I'll let you know if Chef Hill is still in the building.

CL Baker

Thanks! EL

Is it just me,or is everyone else having these giant pop up ads attack them in the new improved on-line format?

The annoying giant attacking pop-up ads do seem to be becoming more frequent lately. Why an advertiser would think I'd want to reward such obnoxious behavior with my patronage is beyond me.

At least a screen refresh will usually make them go away (temporarily). The paper equivalent of the pop-up ads is possibly even worse, as partial disassembly of the newspaper is required to get rid of them. I won't have anything to do with those advertisers, either.

Joyce - Firefox blocks all that stuff. So does Opera.

I hate formats.

Hal is getting pop-up ads? I thought you were a techno-savant? I haven't gotten those in many years. Opera Opera Opera. Free and way faster and more functional than IE. Plus you can strip it down so that there is only a tiny amount space used up for toolbars and stuff. Plus tabbed pages. My favorite is navigating just by mouse. Hold down the right button and sweep left and you go back a page. Sweep right and go forward. Sweep down and a new page is opened. Sweep down and up and the page is copied into a new page. Etc etc etc. Kind of like curling.

I love Opera so much I wanna take it behind a middle school and get it pregnant.

Lissa - thanks for the tip! OMG - thanx for the laugh(s)...

Last weekend was the worst for the giant attack ads. They had a huge yellow one for the renaissance festival with a white "close" thingy that I couldn't find on top of the white background. I couldn't get rid of the thing!

I can't imagine in this day and age why anyone would still be getting pop-ups. I looked at my dreadful unused (new) version of IE and it has a pop-up blocker button on the Viewpont toolbar. It also has pop-up options under the Tools menu. I use it occasionally and the pop-up part works fine. Make sure you have the latest version of your browser.

From now on I'm calling pop-ups meerkats.

Owl Dude, some of the web applications I have to use for work, etc., require meerkats to function. It's a nuisance switching meerkat-blocking on and off, so I usually don't bother.

I know what you mean Hal. Popups remind me of that carnival game Whack-a-Mole.

OMG, its prairie dogs that pop up. Just like in my old office with all the cubicles: A head would pop up, look around, then duck back down. Then another. And another. Meerkats usually stand around in groups.

OMG-you are funny

OMG-you are funny

Don't tell him that, even if it is true.

I must add that just because pop-ups/meerkats/prairie dogs (PMP) can be blocked by the user doesn't absolve the sins of the purveyors of PMP. It's still a terrible crime.

Thanks naturemade, I'm having a really really really good week.

RiE, yeah prairie dogs is better. I love watching them at the zoo.

Great Chef lousy attitude. EL you should do a top ten on Chefs that you love to meet. The chef at the Ruby Lounge (now closed was great), Jerry Edwards from Chef Expressions great guy, Kevin Miller from IXIA I love when he visits our table, Casey Jenkins from Darker than blue cafe great guy loves to chat, Chef Costa from Pazo I simply love. Chef Hill from all over Baltimore not so much very rude.