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This may seem a bit silly, but this is my list of stuff I got for Christmas. I’m by no means bragging, just saving it for myself (it’s my blog).

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen DVD
Raiders, Temple, etc. DVD Box Set
Bunch of black, brown, and other colored dress socks
Set of 3 black “Gold-toe” brand black socks
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I just love asking questions on my weblog, because I almost always get a useful answer. In this case, I got a bunch of great answers.
Brent gets props for giving me the right answer first… turns out the URL for pinging weblogs.com shouldn’t have a trailing slash after it… I have no idea [...]

Why do I see this entry in my MT activity log so often:
Ping ‘http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2/’ failed: HTTP error: 404 Not Found
Anyone know?

If you own or run a company that sells a service to people, then beware of your customer. If they feel like they’re going to get shitty service from you, they’ll probably find someone else to find the service you’re providing for them now. I say this because, if Earthlink is really shipping [...]

Our family Christmas was a lot of fun this year. It always is, but this year, it was better than normal.
You see, each year, we trade names for Christmas gifts and stocking stuffer duty, so that each of us will get a good gift or two, and it won’t cost each of us $5,000 [...]

It’s been too long since I’ve had a good dinner or lunch of good old fashioned, german made Schnitzel. Ummm… I can taste it in my head already.
This post on aprendiz de todo made me think of the last time I had schnitzel, and made me want to get in the car and drive [...]

Wow!!!
If you haven’t seen IRobotNow.com, then you’re missing the best online advertisement I’ve ever seen…
IRobotNow.com is a website where you can order your very own robot, completely configured the way you want it. You can watch videos of the NS-5 in action and learn more about how a personal domestic assistant can improve your [...]

The public posting by Noel from a few days ago about Nick Denton ’stealing’ his work has taught me some great lessons, and might teach the rest of us a few too. I’ll try to list a few of them here:
1. Free never means free.
It’s become apparent that Noel did some work for free [...]

Yesterday my CD-ROM drive on my year old Dell Latitude starting having issues. It won’t stay closed and sporadiacally opens on its own. It’s very annoying to be sitting in a presentation and have the CD-ROM drive just pop-open. You initial response is to just push it back in, but when you [...]

On Wednesday, I flew to Minneapolis to meet with potential clients, and I have to say that I was impressed. We met with one of the largest retailers in the country, and they’re finally starting to ‘get it’ when it comes to the importance of the internet, and online marketing.
I’m looking for big things [...]

First, let me say, I don’t know Nick Denton at all. I also only know Noel Jackson through email (though we’ve emailed a bit for two complete strangers) and I’ve only read some of Joe Clark’s stuff online, here and there.
But, when I read this post by Noel, and then more here on the [...]

I’ve been playing Age of Mythology pretty much non-stop for a week now… it’s a great game, but it freezes my Powerbook everytime I play it, and I have no idea why it’s doing so…
The gameplay is great, but the freezing really gets on my nerves… Hopefully, Macsoft will answer my email asking them about [...]

Amazing: We Got Him
Without firing a shot, American forces captured a bearded and haggard-looking Saddam Hussein in an underground hide-out on a farm near his hometown of Tikrit, ending one of the most intensive manhunts in history. The arrest was a huge victory for U.S. forces battling an insurgency by the ousted dictator’s followers.
“Ladies [...]

You can always stand to learn something from the Duke:
“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.”
– John Wayne
One of my personal heros.

This history of the commercial internet is a complex one, and a history where lots of people claim to be first…
(office alert, turn down your speakers before clicking)
Here is a quick history of the internet explaining where Amazon, eBay, Yahoo, and a few other notable people and sites fit into the historical record of [...]

I saw this on a CPA website today:
“If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space…”
Totally turned around my image of accountants and tax professionals… had to comment on it.

My friend Rick points out this choice entry:
When I was a kid, no-one really explained to me about pooing. Consequently I grew up thinking it was something only I did. Some weird form of punishment from God for my share of original sin. So I’d hoard my poos for days. It’s called constipation, and I [...]

I bought two albums from the iTunes Music Store last night. Both are Reverend Horton Heat albums that I didn’t own, but neither was really the album I wanted.
I bought “It’s Martini Time” and “Space Heater” but I really wanted to by “Smoke ‘em If You Got ‘em”. The funny thing is that [...]