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Wednesday 28 July 2010
Sunday 25 July 2010
Saturday 24 July 2010
![]() If you're in Sacramento, and you want to find a good restaurant, check out Eating Out Sacramento. It's your guide to the better fine dining experiences in the Sacramento, California area. If you're looking for good food and good times, it's a great place to start your search.
Friday 23 July 2010
Thursday 22 July 2010
Wednesday 21 July 2010
Tuesday 20 July 2010
Monday 19 July 2010
Wednesday 14 July 2010
Tuesday 13 July 2010
Injustice is a funny thing. If someone has done you wrong, and you need to sue for damages, the only ones that are going to win are the lawyers. How fair is that? But, now, you can have all the legal help you need, basically become your own lawyer, by acquiring the Jurisdictionary step-by-step course for winning in court without a lawyer. Buy once, use many times.
Saturday 10 July 2010
Saturday 3 July 2010
![]() I'm really peeved at Google. They are the biggest baby in the sandbox, so when you do something they don't like, they can throw a lot of sand in your face. And a lot of times, they simply don't play fair. With billions of dollars and tons of people in their employ doing wild and crazy things, do they really have to? I won't go into any details right here, but suffice it to say, I'm staying away from Google as much as I can, which is a shame considering they have all this nifty technology that allows me to compose letters and check mail without even cracking open my laptop. I can do it all from anyone's computer anywhere in the world. Even in China. Well, maybe not China, depending on how Google's relationship with them unfolds.
![]() I try to go to local restaurants whenever I can, instead of the chains that seem to be taking over just about everywhere. Just how many Olive Gardens can a community handle? And just how many real Italian restaurants do we have to lose before we realize that we need to support the independent local retailers in our own neighborhoods? Pretty soon, they'll all be gone. And we'll get a super huge Wal-Mart to replace it. Is that what we really want? Anyway, I'm rambling. I just wanted to point out some online marketing I'm toying with. It's called affiliate marketing, and I'm just starting out with it. I've also written an article about it. You can find it HERE.
Friday 2 July 2010
Wednesday 30 June 2010
![]() Tesla Motors has priced its IPO at $17 per share, which means if it sells out, it will raise about $226 million. Not bad. With that kind of cash on hand, it should be able to get out the Model S sedan, which real people might actually be able to afford, at around $50,000. I'm keeping tabs on this one...
Thursday 24 June 2010
Wednesday 23 June 2010
![]() Tesla Motors is preparing an IPO. Which means they should raise a bunch of money. They have some really cool cars. They are all electric and some can go about 300 miles on a single charge. Not too shabby. I am experimenting with ClickBank and have created a test advertisement to see how things work:
Depending on my success with ClickBank, I'll post results, and if it works out really well, who knows, maybe I'll put a page or even a whole website dedicated to it. We'll see...
Monday 21 June 2010
Saturday 19 June 2010
![]() Can you believe that the above piece of paper is worth over a million dollars? Well, the original of that piece of paper, not the jpg image above, just sold at auction for $1.2 million. Not bad for something John Lennon probably wrote will laying down in bed looking at posters on his wall. Don't get me wrong. I'm a fan of John Lennon. However, I think even he would have a good laugh at how much this piece of paper was worth to somebody. Almost all nations on this great planet of ours are good at something. As a matter of fact, almost every country ranks at number one in a particular field of excellence. However, excellence might be an inappropriate word. After all, what nation would want to rank number one in the number of serial killers it has (United States)? Where can you find the most coffee drinkers per capita (Norway)? What country pirates the most software (Armenia)? It's actually quite amusing. Check out the Information is Beautiful site to see it all for yourself.
Friday 18 June 2010
Thursday 17 June 2010
![]() Igor Stravinsky was born on this day in 1882. He was a Russian composer famous for such works as "The Rite of Spring" and "The Firebird". Part of the former was featured in Disney's Fantasia. It has been said that John Williams might have committed unintended plagiarism by lifting some of themes from "The Rite of Spring" to use in his Jaws soundtrack. I don't know if there is much credence to the accusation, but there it is. Although he was born in Russia, Stravinsky became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1946, taking up residence in Los Angeles, California. There, he conducted concerts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at times. During the 1960s he became mentor to Warren Zevon, famous for such tunes as "Werewolves of London".
Tuesday 15 June 2010
![]() Helen Hunt was born on this day in 1963. Probably best known for her role in the sitcom "Mad About You", she has also appeared in many motion pictures, including Twister and As Good As It Gets, for which she was an Oscar for best actress. She also directs movies such as Then She Found Me. And did you know that one of her first roles was as Murray Slaughter's daughter on the Mary Tyler Moore Show?
Saturday 12 June 2010
![]() Anne Frank was born on this day in 1929. Had she survived the Holocaust, she would be 81 today. Frank's story is fairly well known. She and almost her entire family died in a concentration camp during World War II. She kept a diary that became world-famous, The Diary of a Young Girl. It has been translated into many languages and was also made into a major motion picture. The diary chronicles her life from June 12, 1942 to August 1, 1944. The exact date of her death is not known, but it was in March 1945.
Friday 11 June 2010
![]() The World Cup is currently going on. I'm not a big fan of soccer, but I know that it is one of the most popular sports in the world, perhaps the most popular. For those of you who are not familiar with the game, there are two teams, and they take turns kicking a ball across a grassy field. The team who gets the ball into the goal on the opposing side gets a point. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins. You are not allowed to use your hands unless you are the goalie, the person who is protecting the goal from the opposing team. It's fairly simply, but it hasn't caught on here in the United States. Some say it's because there's no easy way to insert commercials into the game, as it is not designed to be played with lots of breaks in the action. Well, in any case, there are a lot of teams playing. After all, it's a big world.
Tuesday 8 June 2010
![]() Today is Frank Lloyd Wright's birthday. He is probably know best as being the father of John Lloyd Wright, the inventor of Lincoln Logs. OK, maybe I'm being facetious, but I'm not really a big fan of Frank's architecture style, so I was trying to find something nice to say about him.
Saturday 5 June 2010
Friday 4 June 2010
![]() Instead of seizing 2.2 acres of land from a dairy farmer in order to expand and modernize a border station at the U.S.-Canada border, the federal government has instead decided to simply close the station. Originally, the government wanted to take the entire 10 acre farm, warning the owner that he'd better sell it for $39,500 or else the doctrine of eminent domain would be used to simply seize the land. It was not a popular plan, and the government got absolutely no support from the locals. On top of that, the border station was idle most of the time, so making any improvements to it or spending any money on it was senseless. Score one for the little guy... And in case anyone was keeping track, I now have 142 people in my MyWorldPlus downline.
Saturday 29 May 2010
![]() Danny Elfman was born on this day back in 1953. He formed the band Oingo Boingo back in the 1970s and then went on to compose music for movies. Some of his scores sounded pretty conventional, such as Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Midnight Run but then you started to hear his unmistakable style in such films as Batman and The Nightmare Before Christmas. I am looking forward to hearing what he did for The Green Hornet, which should be out in theaters in 2011.
Friday 28 May 2010
![]() Is it me or are advertisements on web sites a lot more personalized these days? Case in point is all the Chuck E. Cheese advertisements I've been seeing. OK, I had a birthday party for my daughter there earlier this month, so I made reservations online and got confirmations sent to my yahoo.com email address. And now, I've been seeing advertisements for this place everywhere. I don't remember ever seeing them before. Kind of eerie. They are even showing up on sites that aren't affiliated with yahoo.com, or maybe they are and I just don't know about it. In any case, I've seen this trend with other "coincidences" as well. So, I'm guessing that either cookies or some other technique is being used to put very personalized ads in front of me. Just me, not anyone else on the Internet.
Thursday 27 May 2010
![]() Paris Hilton is in the news today with her new Songs for Soldiers program. It appears that the program was started earlier this year by actor Tom Wiggin. Paris recently signed on to promote the program and will party with over a hundred U.S. sailors during New York's Fleet Week. The Songs for Soldiers program aims to give all the 180,000 or so American troops stationed abroad a free mp3 player, pre-loaded with music donated by famous artists. Sounds like a worthwhile program, and I approve.
Wednesday 26 May 2010
![]() On this day in 1946, a patent was filed in the United States for a H-bomb. Does this mean that you can walk into the patent office and request those documents and see for yourself how one is made? Now that North Korea has cut ties with South Korea, maybe the patent office should be extra careful about who they gives copies of the plans to...
Monday 24 May 2010
Friday 21 May 2010
![]() Writer of the popular song Ain't Misbehavin', Fats Waller was born in 1904 but only lived to the age of 39. He wrote or co-wrote over 400 songs and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970. Happy Birthday, Mr. Waller!
![]() Free Limeade Sparkler from Taco Bell. No strings. Offer expires 7/11/2010 or when they give out 500,000 free ones. Get one while the gettin's good!
Thursday 20 May 2010
![]() Miley Cyrus has a line of jewelry sold at Wal-Mart stores. Wal-Mart is pulling the entire line from its shelves because the jewelry contains high levels of the toxic metal cadmium. I guess it's one more reason not to shop at Wal-Mart.
Wednesday 19 May 2010
![]() Today is the birthday of Joey Ramone, lead singer of the Ramones, a 1970s punk band out of New York. His real name was Jeffry Ross Hyman, but all of the members of the band took on the last name Ramone. They were famous (or perhaps infamous) for such tunes as "Sheena is a Punkrocker" and "You're Gonna Kill That Girl". In 1979, Joey and the rest of the band were featured in a movie called "Rock and Roll High School". It was a B movie about teenagers taking over their school. Pamela Jayne (P.J.) Soles played Riff Randell, the teenage girl who was in love with Joey and got the Ramones to help with the takeover. Joey died in 2001 at the age of 49 from cancer. Quiznos is currently offering a free sub if you buy a sub of equal or greater value plus a regular fountain drink. Click Here to view the coupon. It expires 5/25/2010. An article in Men's Health Magazine is stating that chocolate milk is the answer to your dieting woes. Drink one when you wake up, one before you exercise, and the final one right after your workout. Or, if you are not working out that day, do it breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Hmm, I like it... Need something translated in a hurry? Our favorite search engine has a pretty decent web-based translator. Google Translate is yet another finely crafted tool that Google offers for free. It supports many different language pairs. I tested it by translating something from English to Swedish. Then, I took the results and translated it back to English. The reverse translation shows me that the first translation wasn't that bad. Actually, it was pretty good. If you're ever looking for something to do on a rainy day, try translating something (maybe a paragraph of fine literature) from the original language to another. And then, translate it back. Some of the results are bound to put a smile on your face.
Tuesday 18 May 2010
![]() Katharine Hepburn has her own US postal stamp now. A longtime fixture in motion pictures, her image can now be affixed to a one ounce domestic letter. Here's to you, Kate the Great...
Sunday 16 May 2010
Saturday 15 May 2010
![]() Looking for a cheap game to play on your Mac or PC? How about free? I've never actually tried it, but Portal is free until May 24th, 2010. You've got a little more than a week to go download it. What are you waiting for?
Friday 14 May 2010
![]() If you are interesting in playing guitar and looking for a great starter guitar, you simply cannot beat the following deal. Musician's Friend has a Washburn D6S acoustic guitar on sale for only $99 including shipping. You'll not find a better price anywhere. Quantities are limited, so hurry!
Thursday 13 May 2010
After a long hiatus, I've decided to resurrect my old site, SheetMusic411 web site. It's been offline for quite some time, but I figured, there's always room for one more free sheet music web site. There's not much there right now, but I'll keep it updated with new picks as often as I can. Want some mp3 music for free? Amazon is giving some away. It's a sample of 15 complete songs in a genre called "sub pop", which I've never heard of myself, but you can preview the songs and see if they are worth downloading. You can't beat the price.
![]() Lena Horne recently passed. I've been told she was a great lady. I don't know much about her, except what I read in Wikipedia. There was one fact that got to me. Although she appeared in numerous films in the 40s, there was a possibility that her scenes would be edited out if the picture was shown in a state where black performers could not appear. So, most of her scenes were standalone and didn't involve other cast members, because they could not be integral with the plot of the picture. Wow. I'm glad it's not like that anymore. If you have a morbid curiousity and want to see who the latest people to pass are, visit Deaths in 2010. It's a wikipedia site and will list all the famous and not so famous people who have died this year, in reverse chronological order.
Wednesday 12 May 2010
Ever heard of a website called All American Clothing Company? I heard about it years back and bookmarked the site, but now I'm visiting it again. It's an online retailer that sells nothing but American-made clothing. What a great idea! If you want to be sure that you are purchasing something that's completely made in the United States, it's a perfect place to start. I wrote about a particular web site a few years back and decided to add another entry on it because, well, because I wanted to. And they've got a new name now. The website is called America's Cheapest Family and focuses on how you can save money by economizing. I've been looking at coupons more and more these days, and I'm always looking for a good bargain, so I plan on making a trip to this site often. I've never left a way for people to contact me on my web site, most people don't know how to contact me. Today, that changes. I've decided to put my email address at the top of the page. So, now, if you want to contact me, you can. All I ask is that you choose your words wisely.
Tuesday 11 May 2010
![]() I discovered a cool new site that's worth a visit every day. It's called There, I Fixed It and shows hilarious photos of epic kludges people have crafted. Some of them are unbelievable. Check it out now! 11 people in my MyWorldPlus downline! And now I am actively trying to figure out how to grow exponentially, as I know it must be possible.
Monday 10 May 2010
![]() I'm feeling very hopeful about MyWorldPlus as I am up to 9 people in my downline. Hopefully, it will continue to grow. If you haven't already checked it out, please take a look. You've got nothing to lose, and if you become a member under me, that would be a great thing! If you're looking for good deals, Slickdeals.net might just be the perfect place to go. Deals are added daily, and are mostly geared towards those of us looking for technology items. But you never know what you'll find. It's kind of like a box of chocolates...
Saturday 8 May 2010
My trusty old iBook is on its last legs. It's gone through several batteries, and I just put a new keyboard on it. But it's tired and feels like it really wants to be pushing up the daisies right about now. I've been thinking of what I would replace it with, and after doing a bit of research, I found the Lenovo IdeaPad netbook. ![]() It's one of the few 12" netbooks out there. Netbooks are superlight, and this one's battery lasts around 6 hours, which would be great. It doesn't have a built-in DVD drive, but I haven't used one in years, so it really wouldn't bother me. I could run either Windows XP or Mac OS on it. You heard right. There are people who have figured out how to get OS X running on standard off the shelf hardware. One of the bigger movements is called Hackintosh. I'm seriously thinking about something like this.
Friday 7 May 2010
![]() A few months ago, my family decided to embark on a great telephone experiment. We would give up our landline and do cell phones exclusively. So, now we have five cell phones, two for my wife and I, and three more for our oldest sons. The phones work great as long as you are not in our house. There, the reception goes from one bar to no signal at all. To remedy this situation, I have been searching for solutions, and I found an interesting one the other day. It's called The Cell Ranger Cell Booster. You basically plug this antenna into any USB port on any computer in your house, and it boosts the cell signal so you get better reception. It doesn't require the computer to do anything except provide the power, so I suppose you could even just find a USB to AC power adapter and plug it into any outlet and it would work just as well. Simple enough. So, I'm seriously thinking of ordering it, as I'm getting moans and groans about having to go near the window in the dining room in order to make a call or even receive one. People just don't know how good they have it. Back when my great great great grandfather was a kid, they didn't even have cell phones! They probably didn't even have regular phones. So, stop whining everyone! And now from some good news. That program I wrote about yesterday, MyWorldPlus, has just given me my first downline member! I really don't know what it means it the grand scheme of things, but I'm hoping it means that it will generate some bucks my way. I've gotten about 879 pre-enrollees, which to mean seems like a lot, but of all of those, only one decided to join the program so far. Maybe in the next few days, that will change. We'll see. Finally, I found that compact fluorescent light bulb I was looking for at elightbulbs.com. The good news is, it only costs $3.19. The bad news is, the shipping on the thing is about $8. Now, I have to decide whether I'm going to keep looking locally for the thing or buy it off the Internet...
Thursday 6 May 2010
![]() OK, I've just joined an interesting program. It's called MyWorldPlus, and it's a program that can make you a lot of money, at least that's what I've been told. The first thing it gives you is lots of discounts at local retailers, so you can quickly make your membership pay for itself and then give you savings over that. Then, if you sign up people below you, you can make money from them and anyone that signs up below them. I know it sounds like a pyramid scheme or multi-level marketing thing, and maybe that's what it is, but just the savings you get by being a member seems to be reason enough to try it out. And if it doesn't work the way you think it will work for you, you can cancel anytime. Check it out! As an aside, I had to go shopping for a specific type of light bulb last night. It was a compact fluorescent bulb, 18 watts, 4 pin plug in. Shouldn't be too hard to find, right? I went to Lowe's and checked their shelf. No luck, so I called for a customer service person. He showed up about 5 minutes later, looked at my dead bulb, looked at what was on the shelf, and said, sorry, they didn't carry it. Maybe I should try the "other" big box hardware store. So, I went to Home Depot and the same thing happened there. Unbelievable. So, now I have no light in the kitchen, and nothing I can do until I can find a replacement bulb. Don't you love it when things like that happen?
Wednesday 5 May 2010
![]() Why Cinco de Mayo? It commemorates the Battle of Puebla, fought on May 5, 1862, pitting the Mexican army against the French. So, why exactly do we celebrate it here in the United States? It's not even a big deal in Mexico. I wonder how much Corona is sold...
Tuesday 4 May 2010
Saturday 27 March 2010
![]() Yes, it's been a very long time since my last post. Been busy with life. And living without coffee since the beginning of Lent. I'm going to have a nice cup on Easter Sunday. Looking for a good supplier of coffee beans, I came across Paradise Roasters. Think I'm going give them a try and see how good their beans really are. If you are looking for earlier musings, Click Here.
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