Category: Amuse Me

Random things I’ve seen in my recent travels:

:: Technorati is a new service to allow you to watch websites. Wondering what it’s trying to tell you? Check out the Results Help page. I found a few sites that link to me that I didn’t know about before, but otherwise I’m not sold yet on how useful this will be. [via Jason]

:: If TiVo Thinks You’re Gay, Here’s How to Set it Straight – I saw the “King of Queens” episode where the TiVo thought he was gay – it was hysterical! I turned the “record stuff for me on your own” feature off a long time ago though. I record enough stuff as it is. The article also goes in to why Amazon recommends the strange things it offers up to us too.

:: Unspooled is a great article about how the cassette tape is fading away in to history. Remember making mix tapes for someone that you liked? I loved the fact that my dual cassette player even had a feature where it would put the little break inbetween each song. Ah, those were the days… [via Laura Holder; read her post from Nov. 18, 2002 about cleaning out her tapes too.]

:: Tellling All Online: It’s a Man’s World (Isn’t It?) – the poor author of this article thought that all there was to the blog world were men. While what I personally consider to be the “A List” of bloggers is mainly male (and it’s a really short list, but we’ll get in to that some other time), I read a mix of male and female blogs. Some are people just like me, others are people nothing like me. It’s an interesting mix when I stop to think about it – but I would never say that the blog world is dominated by men. At least not in my little corner of it. What do you think?

While I hooked Heather up with the Zip Zap that she really wanted for Hanukkah for Derek, some credit goes to Mike too, since he was the one that found the only Radio Shack in Houston with a steady supply of them. With that discovery, he was able to fill my need and the needs of others for cute remote control cars! Zoom Zoom! Is it Christmas yet? I want to play with mine!

Speaking of Christmas – the annual debate is here: when is the right time to put up the Christmas tree? Feel free to leave your feedback on this – I would love to know what you think!

Oh my. Now I can’t stop singing the “Chim-Chimney” song from Mary Poppins. Yes, some brilliant Texan thought that he could get in to his locked house if he slid down his chimney. When he ended up wedged in the chimney in the country where most people refuse to take the blame for their own mistakes, what did he do? He blamed Mary Poppins, of course! Damn that Mary Poppins! Practically perfect in every way, my ass! (Uh oh. I think all this work today is making me punchy!) [via Minnesota Gardener]

The 500th entry has now been posted at Picture Yourself! I decided last week to reserve the 10 spots after 500 for people who have been absolutely fundamental in getting the project going, either with their mad code skills, their support, getting the word out to the public, or all of the above. Over the next two days these photos will be published for you to enjoy! If you haven’t already – isn’t it about time you Picture Yourself?

I never use Netscape. I hate Netscape – I always have. I think that people tend to love the first browser that they use – and for me, it was Internet Explorer. Today I had to open up the Netscape browser though because my IE is corrupted and won’t let me save images correctly and I need to snag content from a client’s old site, so Netscape was the only option. While there, I discovered on the Netscape home page that there is a Netscape Music Channel where you can listen to entire CDs with Real Audio! Sweet! There are a few new CDs I’ve thought about getting, but I don’t want to download them through Kazaa right now – so this is the perfect alternative!