Archive for December, 2005

Whoever writes the headlines at Woot is brilliant

I’ve only ever bought one item at Woot.com, but I visit the site almost every day. Not just to see what today’s bargain might be, but to revel in the witty descriptions they write for each day’s products.
I especially like the headlines. The writer does a great job of including the product name […]

They finally took down that link

Looks like that link from the porn site finally went away today. The traffic from their site dropped off dramatically today compared to yesterday, so I would guess it went down sometime this morning.
The thing is, it appears that what happened is the voting for the awards is over. So they never actually […]

The downside of HDTV

The HDTV-capable set I’ve had a couple months, but the receiver I only got a couple weeks ago (on eBay, a real bargain too compared to what these go for at Circuit City or Best Buy). Mostly so far it’s been football that I have watched in HDTV, and for that it’s just remarkable. […]

Chronicles of Narnia worth seeing

I saw the Chronicles of Narnia movie this past weekend and I’m thinking it’s a lock that they’ll make at least a couple more in the series. I enjoyed it immensely, and though it has some Christian themes it’s not very overt about them so even non-believers can sit and enjoy it as an […]

Vegetable oil can burn

So I got a little demonstration today about just how flammable vegetable oil can be.
I was heating a pot to cook up some chicken jambalaya (it’s a Chicken Helper box which for some reason is not listed on the General Mills Web site). I had just finished adding the seasoning pack to the […]

Why is it taking them so long to fix the link?

So earlier this week I mentioned how a gay porn awards site was erroneously linking to mine. I contacted them Tuesday about fixing the link, they said they’d get right on it. But as of last night, my Google Analytics report says I’m still getting traffic from their site.
They’re still linking to me, […]

Kanye West earns boatload of Grammy nominations

Kanye West has a whole boatload of Grammy nominations today–both as performer and producer. I loved Kanye’s album, I hope it wins some of the awards it’s nominated for.

Snowmageddon 2005

The forecasters are predicting an early winter snowstorm today, and I think people are over-reacting a little. Like I went to Kroger last night to pick up some cereal and milk, the place was absolutely packed. Parking lot, inside the store, everywhere. People stocking up ahead of the “snow emergency”. They […]

Distributed work teams don’t work

So there is this notion that advances in telecommunications make telecommuting that much easier. That high-speed Internet and video conferencing and VOIP will make it simpler for widely distributed work groups to collaborate. But now that I’ve seen up close how a widely dispersed group operates, I’m beginning to think it’s not quite […]

This is still not rex’s world

So I mentioned yesterday how some gay porn awards site was linking to my site. I finally found where on their site the bad link was, so I emailed their contact address but never heard back. As of now it’s still linking to my site.
So I finally decided to do something I hate to […]