Yeah, I know I’m mad late to the eBay party, but the design of the site just always turned me off. I’ve bought things via online auctions before, but only from uBid. My first eBay buying experience was just a month ago when I snagged that ridiculously cheap magazine subscription deal. And while that was… Continue reading News Flash: eBay is the Sh!t…
Category: Internet
I Finally Got a GMail Account
Big up to Ding Deng for hooking me up with a gmail invitation. (My commenting on other people’s blogs has finally paid off.) Unlike many, I wasn’t in a huge rush to lock in a user ID. With a last name as unique as mine (only 6 of us in the United States), I’ve never… Continue reading I Finally Got a GMail Account
GMail, Blog*Spot, FireFox and TiVo
What do GMail, Clog*Spot, FireFox, and TiVo have in common? Nothing, besides the fact that I’m about to talk about all of them. 🙂 For those of you clamoring to get a GMail account, Matt has a few invites that he’s giving away to winners of his photo contest. Get your entries in by tomorrow.… Continue reading GMail, Blog*Spot, FireFox and TiVo
FrontLine: The Way the Music Died
Set your TiVos for FrontLine’s special report on the music industry, ‘The Way the Music Died’. Here’s what the show is about: The modern music scene was created in 1969, at Woodstock. Half a million fans, dozens of artists, and the politics of the times came together as a big bang moment that eventually would… Continue reading FrontLine: The Way the Music Died
Dirt Cheap Magazine Subscriptions!
PFBlog has some great tips for finding amazing discounts on magazine subscriptions. They point out some deals at eBay and at MagazinePriceSearch.com. For example, check out this deal at eBay for 2 and 3-year subs to 13 different magazines for only $4.99. (***Note: That specific deal is gone but that seller has new ones all… Continue reading Dirt Cheap Magazine Subscriptions!
Blogs Trump Big Media
Kevin and Paul over at WizBang have made an astute observation in the wake of the Nick Berg beheading. WizBang is hosting, and has linked to others who are hosting the Nick Berg video. As a result their traffic has spiked incredibly over the last couple of days. Here’s a graph of WizBang’s hits over… Continue reading Blogs Trump Big Media
The Leftover, a New Progressive Satire Magazine
Here’s a shameless plug to help out some fellow alumni. 🙂 I just received the following message about The Leftover:
Chin-Check for Bandwidth Stealers
I just implemented a nice little surprise for some people who were stealing my bandwidth by hotlinking to images on my server.
Yahoo! Swings Back at Google’s GMail
Yahoo has changed their e-mail policies so that spam now longer counts as part of a user’s allotted storage space…
Janet Makes Internet Searching History
According to Lycos, Janet’s Super Bowl incident is now the most searched thing in history. I’m not surprised given the flood of hits I’ve received from search engines. I knew I was gonna kill my bandwidth, but this is nuts. As an aside, who actually uses Lycos??? 🙂 Janet Makes History February 4, 2004 Janet… Continue reading Janet Makes Internet Searching History