Archive for October, 2006

Low Down Marketing

It’s my wife’s birthday today. She got a call from the mortgage company we went through to buy our house. We haven’t heard from them since a month after we signed the papers and they sold our note. So the call really came as quite a surprise to my wife. It went something like this: [...]

October 19, 2006 · Dustin · One Comment
Posted in: Rants

Gmail Addresses Ignore Dots

This is interesting. I keep getting emails from a group of people that have mistakenly entered my email address in their CC field. When I look at it though, it is not my address, it is missing the period in between my first and last name. When I was looking at this, I saw a [...]

October 17, 2006 · Dustin · 4 Comments
Posted in: Web Sites

Google Groups Back in Beta

I have only used it briefly so far, but I had to come rave about the new Google Groups Beta! I wont say much, but I will point you to their new beta version and their blog announcment.

October 9, 2006 · Dustin · 4 Comments
Posted in: Web Sites

One Day to Google

Wow, I’m impressed. On the same day that I set up this site, Google came to pay a visit. You can see from a screenshot of this whois record the date that I set up my nameservers. Speaking of which, DomainTools is pretty on the ball as well. Looking at Google, it seemed that on [...]

October 6, 2006 · Dustin · Comments Closed
Posted in: Programming & Internet

Same Blog, New Home

OK, this is the second time I’ve changed the name of my blog, but this time I think it will stick. Why? Because I’ve found a new home! Rather than keeping it on a sub-domain, I’ve got my own domain for my highly refreshed blog. I really never thought it would come to this. Why [...]

October 4, 2006 · Dustin · Comments Closed
Posted in: Yada

Al Qaeda Missionaries

It’s funny, these Al Qaeda missionaries get the same response that I would often get as a Mormon missionary. Funny stuff. Hopefully the people there knew it was a joke. I would the the camerman following them around might have given it away (The embeded video can be seen at Google Video) [tags]Al Qaeda, Humor, [...]

October 3, 2006 · Dustin · Comments Closed
Posted in: Humor, LDS

Cheapest Domains

I’m always on the lookout for deals. I’ve got nearly fifty different domain names I’ve accumulated over the years. I remember how excited I was to find GoDaddy back in 2001 or so offering domain names for under $10. I’ve since switched a few times. Now my current registrar of choice is 1&1. My first [...]

October 3, 2006 · Dustin · Comments Closed
Posted in: Programming & Internet

Free Sports Tickets Contest

You can now go rant and rave about your favorite team and have a chance to win some tickets to their next game at GoTeamsGo Sports Forum. Here are the details of the contest: $300 Ticket Contest Pick the Score and Win Tickets We’re having a pick-the-score & pick-the-winner contest. Chat with sports fans and [...]

October 3, 2006 · Dustin · 3 Comments
Posted in: Sports & Stuff

Installer Problems

I’ve come across a few installers that simply won’t install on my laptop (Dell Latitude D820). When I extract a zip file and double click on the executable (usually setup.exe) then I will get the following message: ————————— (PATH)\SETUP.EXE ————————— (PATH)\SETUP.EXE The specified path does not exist. Check the path, and then try again. ————————— [...]

October 2, 2006 · Dustin · One Comment
Posted in: Programming & Internet