Drill here, drill now just isn't enough Image details: High Gas Prices Prompt Bush's Decision To Lift Ban On Offshore Oil Dri served by picapp.comCongress and the Administration need to get their act together and do more... Read More | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
March 19, 2008
How To Harass Your Credit Card Company Into A Lower Rate CBC News has reported that they were able to help some people lower their credit card interest rates by calling the credit card company and asking: I think I've been... Read More | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
October 05, 2007
Five Blogs That Make Me Think (The Thinking Blog Award) meeyauw awarded me the Thinking Blogger Award back in August. Sorry, I've been so damn busy that I really haven't had a chance to look through all my RSS feeds... Read More | 2 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
August 18, 2007
Bye Bye Yahoo Messenger I've had it with Yahoo Messenger because of the pervasive IM spam I get through it and the constant stream of security vulnerabilities. If there was a way to limit... Read More | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
August 03, 2007
Clam Shell Plastic Packages Need to be Banned Consumerist has a post detailing a story about a guy that stabbed himself with an x-acto knife trying to open a plastic clam shell package. My colleague came to work... Read More | 2 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
July 24, 2007
Starbucks Raising Prices July 31 Seattle Post-Intelligencer is reporting that Starbucks will be raising most beverages at their company owned stores an average of 9 cents on July 31. The roughly 3 percent price bump... Read More | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
July 08, 2007
A look at alternative energy projects Dark Roasted Blend took a look at many Alternative Energy Mega Projects around the world. It's good to see that Tidal Power is getting more attention worldwide. I first heard... Read More | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
June 17, 2007
Web 2.0 Sites Need Better RSS Integration A very neat feature that jaiku and tumblr both have is that you can import your RSS feeds and have anything posted to them appear in your jaiku updates or... Read More | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
May 24, 2007
Buyers Remorse Over A Crappy Product? Techdirt had a good piece earlier this month on how the web is turning everyone into a potential critic and how it can either be a "boon or burden" to... Read More | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
April 28, 2007
AOL Completely Lost It's Direction AOL is completely lost without Jason Calacanis and Jon Miller. So much so, that AOL has resorted to copying Yahoo. I mean, if you're going to copy someone, at... Read More | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
Many people still can't figure out their email address I've noticed through running several online communities that require email validation that many people either aren't paying enough attention when they enter their email address or they simply don't know... Read More | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
March 08, 2007
Yahoo Updates My Yahoo :Yawn: Steve Rubel says the New My Yahoo Signals It Has Abandoned the Geeks. Yahoo is definitely becoming this decade's AOL. The service keeps dumbing down by playing to the lowest... Read More | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
March 03, 2007
USPS To install Slot Machines and Offer Table Dances OK, not quite, but the United States Postal Service is following the Las Vegas Casino trend of not displaying any clocks. The chron.com reports they're doing it to improve customer... Read More | 1 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
February 14, 2007
Forget About Valentines Day? How to save your relationship 1-800-Flowers Delivery Guarantee Isn't Guaranteed today because the weather is less than perfect across most of the Eastern United States. They're even sending out emails to some customers who placed... Read More | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
January 28, 2007
Pot calling kettle black Yesterday, Robert Scobel ranted, Big gadget sites don’t link to blogs and then backed off a bit. But, back when I first wrote Google Reader could be a Digg killer!?!????... Read More | 1 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
January 01, 2007
Goodbye 2006, Hello 2007! This will be brief... Predictions: Digg will falter.TiVo will be purchased by Google, Yahoo, or Apple.Google will purchase a company that will surprise everyone.Nikon will introduce a replacement for the... Read More | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
December 23, 2006
Five things you didn't know about me Just when I thought I escaped being tagged for this meme, Bill sneaked up from behind and got me. Five things not commonly known about me: I shudder every time... Read More | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
August 17, 2006
Lets get the brats ready for school... An actual email, unedited except to add emphasis, as received tonight. All the schools with Zero Tolerance "Weapon" Rules will love these specials.... Read More | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
February 12, 2006
Memorandum to Pizza Hut and Domino's Pizza Instead of spending millions developing new types of gimmick pizzas or toppings and marketing them at nauseam, why don't you just make a pizza that tastes good? There must be... Read More | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
July 01, 2005
Cyclists are elitist assholes I'm sure I'm going to take some heat for the post but I think its time someone finally said it. Cyclists are a road hazard and when they're inevitably hit... Read More | 13 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
September 23, 2003
Who needs seven keys to weight loss? Dieting isn't brain surgery. You simply have to want to do it. There are no magic pills. There are no secret diets. You can loose weight in only three... Read More | 4 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
April 24, 2003
Baa baaaa baaaa baaaaaaaaa BlogShares: Part II A few weeks ago I joked that I'm one of the sheep now because I'm joining the BlogShares game. Thanks to being stuck at home with not much energy to... Read More | 6 Comments | 1 Trackbacks
February 24, 2003
Caring for Your Introvert Now I finally understand why I'm so uncomfortable among a group of friends but at the same time I have no trouble giving a speech and entertaining a room full... Read More | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
February 02, 2003
We must not forget them or why they gave their lives Everyone deals with grief in different ways and to different degrees. Even though I never knew any of the crew of Columbia personally, I have respect for each of them... Read More | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
December 12, 2002
Tattoos I've never understood the popularity of tattoos or even why they are a turn on for some. They're so permanent and most I've seen are simply ugly in my opinion.... Read More | 1 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
November 02, 2002
Important Question If someone wakes up but no one is around to see they're awake are they really awake? Why don't you disscus it while I get back into bed and go... Read More | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
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