In my last post, I talked about the deals that XM was offering me to continue the free subscription we got with the new car. Since then, they offered me another deal which was almost enough to get me to pay for it - six months for the price of two. But even that price is the same as buying the 3 most recent Kidz Bop albums new ( Read more... )

A couple days ago, I was on Facebook and the feature where it suggests "People You Might Know" had the picture of a guy who lives on my block. We don't share any mutual Facebook friends. I only have one Facebook friend who lives in the neighborhood, and she doesn't have any other Facebook friends who live in the neighborhood. The guy whose ( Read more... )

So this afternoon, I tried to order some items at the Ace website for delivery to my local store, since I knew that they didn't have a couple of the items in stock. I needed 3 fluorescent light bulb tubes, a couple of fluorescent light bulb starters, and some 2" brads for my nail gun ( Read more... )

In general, I'm OK with the subtle indoctrination that PBS does in the games on their website (wait, did I say subtle? I meant blatant). None of the areas where I might have differences in opinion with the people making their editorial decisions are likely to come up in a children's program (or a children's website). I object, however, to ( Read more... )

Meg knows more about the internet than I realized - on our way home this afternoon, she and Nicky were talking about something they wanted to buy - here's the conversation ( Read more... )

Just after we came back from Thanksgiving vacation, our wireless router died. Since it was 5 years old, I certainly am not unhappy with the service it gave. I figured that the best option would be to buy the cheapest router I could find, then do the research, since I wanted to get things up and running and didn't have internet access to do ( Read more... )

Nicky has decided that she's not happy with her name and has chosen a new one. While this is sometimes annoying for us, it does have one small advantage. This afternoon, while signing up for a website, her real name was nowhere to be found.

Our hosting company/domain registrar gooned up our renewal, so my regular email address is down. If you need to contact me phone, my Yahoo account, or Facebook are the best ways to do so. The company claims that renewal is "in progress" but who knows how quickly that means things will be back up. Anybody know a decent hosting company that ( Read more... )

This morning at school, I saw a video trailer for Richard Louv's book "The Nature Principle" and the second sentence was massively jarring to me.

Just think; ten years ago we had no Wi-Fi, GPS or iPods.Uhhh, yeah we did. I've never been particularly bleeding edge, and I had WiFi & GPS in 2001 (i.e. ten years before "The Nature Principle" came ( Read more... )

I got the following message in my Yahoo mailbox this evening:

This is to inform you that we have verified your payment,Nigerian 419 scam practiotioners where Arested,your name has been shortlisted and approved for this payment as one of the 419 scam victims,get back to me immedately.

Yours faithfully,

Dr.John Odey.If someone were gullible ( Read more... )