Here’s my imple­men­ta­tion:

.search input.input-submit {
	background: transparent url('/img/search-button.png') no-repeat scroll 0 0;
	border: 0 none;
	width: 20px;
	height: 0px;
	padding-top: 21px;
	overflow: auto;
}

/* For IE7/6, place this in a separate style sheet and use conditional comments */
.search input.input-submit {
	height: 21px;
}

I think this is Expedia’s attempt at making a trans­par­ent spokesper­son — some­one we can all asso­ciate with since we can’t not asso­ciate with him. There’s noth­ing dis­agree­able about him, at least in the three sec­onds we have to look at him. He looks clean and well off, I mean he’s wear­ing a suit, how bad can he be?

But is this really that good of an idea? To hire a spokesper­son that is so generic that no one will find him dis­agree­able seems like a waste of cash because no one will remem­ber him for being asso­ci­ated with your com­pany. He’ll always just be that guy who was on that com­mer­cial you saw one time between reruns of Myth­busters and Dirty Jobs.

Any­ways, I don’t want to bore you with that. What I found inter­est­ing about the whole encounter was reg­is­ter­ing the range. It was a pain­less process that should def­i­nitely be noted by other com­pa­nies in the indus­try every­where.

So, fol­low­ing the instruc­tions on the reg­is­tra­tion form, I went to May​tag.com and was greeted with this:

This alone wowed me. For the most part, I’d say com­pa­nies like Maytag and Ken­more don’t really care too much about how there web­sites look because people don’t really care if they look good, just if the prod­uct per­forms well and lasts a long time. The time and effort to create this site is def­i­nitely appre­ci­ated.

Look­ing around, I found the prod­uct reg­is­tra­tion link. Which, in hind­sight, could be a little better placed con­sid­er­ing most people coming to this site are prob­a­bly coming to reg­is­ter their prod­ucts. I expected the usual rig­ma­role of reg­is­ter­ing a prod­uct — sev­eral pages of infor­ma­tion, check­boxes about hear­ing about prod­ucts, my annual income, level of edu­ca­tion and doing all of this over sev­eral ran­domly broken up pages — but what I got was this:

A simple one page form asking me who I was, what I bought and if I was plan­ning on buying any more appli­ances in the next few months. This process was so pain­less and so dif­fer­ent from most other reg­is­tra­tion forms — even their own paper form was far more com­pli­cated — that I was happy to fill this form out.

FRESNO, Cal­i­for­nia - Author­i­ties say they’ve arrested a man who broke into the home of two Cal­i­for­nia farm­work­ers, stole money, rubbed one of the men with spices and whacked the other with a sausage before flee­ing.

Source: MSNBC

Well, there was a brief lapse in going to the gym, but for the most part I go three days a week. And lately I started taking the bike instead of dri­ving — yay for not spend­ing money and get­ting exer­cise all a once.

Eating health­ier is going well mainly due to the fact that I no longer buy Dori­tos and when we do dessert we usu­ally make it, which adds a hurdle.

The Amazon one…well I lasted the three months pretty well, and after that I’ve had ups and downs, oh well.

1. Log in to Face­book
2. Go to the account page (top right)
3. Click on the Net­works tab
4. Click the Edit Info link
5. Change your status from Stu­dent to Alumnus/Alumna and set your year

And if anyone didn’t know, I am now a full fledged grad­u­ate; no longer a stu­dent. Awe­some. It was a great four years and I met tons of great people, had some great expereiences and met the love of my life.