Monthly Archives: April 2008

The TiECON/Chitika Blogpreneur Contest 2008

Blogging has evolved into a small but powerful force in cyberspace. Harnessing this force is more difficult than one would expect, and this is due to the great variety of Blogs. It is not like an entrepreneur can devise a plan to utilize blogging in a business plan and expect it to succeed. Motivating bloggers […]

Baskin-Robbins 31 Cent Scoop Night

I don’t know, but I thought that Erica might be interested in going out tonight:Baskin-Robbins 31 Cent Scoop Night

The Grand List of Overused Science Fiction Cliches

I received a spat of new cliches for the list. Since I am only giving the list a temporary home, I was reluctant to alter it. I gave in and created a form where users could add to the list. The list is now open for spam and abuse, so I will have to monitor […]

Friday at Work

It’s about 4pm, I have nothing I want to work on, and I have to kill some time before I can sneak out. I just finished Zane Grey’s Riders of the Purple Sage. I must confess that I’ve read a Zane Grey book or two before and was not impressed. I am a big fan […]

GoogleSyndication.com blocked

My workplace uses WebSense.com to “protect” its employees from bad sites. It blocks YouTube, MySpace, Flickr, and other websites. It seems to block sites with the word Download or Hack in the HTML title. Naturally, I take offense to this, because I would love to spend my day watching YouTube or browsing Flickr. I just […]

SpecFicL Mailing List – Speculations Replacement?

Back before the web, when all I had was email, I joined Blues-L. This is a mailing list. I signed up and I received messages from Blues lovers all over the world. If I answered a message, rather than going to the message author, the response was sent to the list server and got sent […]

Justine’s MacBook Air

Justine sent pictures. Her iPhone camera is pretty poor, but you get the idea. The other computer is her older one, which I am lobbying to get. It might require me to drive to the city with my brother and rough her up, though.

Cult Book List

The London Telegraph listed the top 50 cult books, and I am blogging it because I have determined from the list that I must belong to a cult. Of the 50, I have read more than a few of these. Often, I find these are lists of books made popular in the last 10 years […]