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Archive for April, 2005

Customer Service

Monday, April 4th, 2005

So, what ever happened to customer service?!? Does it not exist? Well, let me help ya out here. IT DOESN’T! There is no adjective to describe how deeply my hatred goes when it comes to having to deal with both service and good oriented establishments — ‘cus neither one of […]

Who Needs the Backpack Thing

Wednesday, April 13th, 2005

Um, was that a sound in the engine?

The Eye in the Sky

Wednesday, April 13th, 2005

You ever want to see what it was like to see the earth from space. . . I mean, actually space itself?! No? Well try it anyway. It’s pretty sweet. Google bought this company with plans to tie it into their ever growing collection of all the world’s garbage. […]

Use Your Extra GMail Bytes

Wednesday, April 13th, 2005

Ever since Google started to offer users a GMail e-mail account, which includes storage space of 2000 megabytes, you have had plenty of storage space but not a lot to fill it up with. With GMail Drive you can easily copy files to your GMail account and retrieve them again. So, don’t let […]

A Must Have Magazine

Wednesday, April 13th, 2005

I should really get a job at Popular Science. I push this magazine on people as if it were the Bible or something. My dad had a subscription to this magazine since the early 70’s; I can remember it since I was a wee little shortie. I would always grab it from […]

Best Show on TV

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

A few months ago I finally caught Penn and Teller’s new show — well, really not that new — on Showtime, Bullshit. And, let me tell you, this has got to be one of the best shows on the air right now. The shows basic premise is to attempt to bebunk common […]

Popular Science Fame

Monday, April 18th, 2005

Well, a day after I posted the ‘Popular Science’ item below, I received a message from them. The subject was ‘Popular Science - Seeking Permission. At first I thought that I was going to get some heat (the usual for me) for posting an old magazine cover of theirs, but to my surprise, […]

The Deal with the Gallery

Monday, April 18th, 2005

Okay, whoever you may be. . . I guess I never really explained my intentions for the “gallery.” I went with this involved, comprehensive, feature rich gallery to try and have all you wonderful people give me some feedback on the shots that I posted up there. Yeah, I want you to […]

MyNetFlix Plug-in for WordPress

Tuesday, April 19th, 2005

I found a great plug-in today — MyNetFlix; it doesn’t really do much, but what it does do is pretty cool. Plus, it’ll work well in the ‘Movies’ page I am working on for my blog. It is a plug-in capable of listing your current queue at NetFlix. After downloading it, I […]

The Straight Dope

Friday, April 22nd, 2005

You want to get some laughs yet learn an immense amount of sometimes practical information? Well then, The Straight Dope is for you. The basic gist is, people write in with these questions — questions ranging from the semi normal to the absolute bizarre. Then, Cecil Adams, the world’s most intelligent human […]