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:
Axiom: [...]

October 19, 2006   Posted in: Rants  One Comment

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   Posted in: Web Sites  3 Comments

Getting Things Done

I checked out Getting Things Done from the library. I read about a quarter of it before I had to return it again. You can see I really need to read this book!

See more progress on: Read Getting Things Done

October 11, 2006   Posted in: Yada  Comments Closed

Spiderman is the Offspring of Highlander

So I tried this face recognition tool at My Heritage. The tool is cool. Yes it has some confusing results, but more on that in a minute.

I entered a photo of me and my son. Turns out the number one result for me is Christopher Lambert and the number one result for my son is [...]

October 10, 2006   Posted in: Humor, Web Sites  Comments Closed

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   Posted in: Web Sites  4 Comments

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 the same [...]

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

Technorati Frustrations

I’m getting frustrated trying to claim my blog on Technorati. This blog used to be located at blog.davisvillage.com (it still is for archive purposes). I couldn’t ever claim that blog location on Technorati. Every time I try I kept getting this error:
There was a problem claiming your blog. Please try again in a few minutes. [...]

October 5, 2006   Posted in: Programming & Internet, Rants, Web Sites  5 Comments

I Love VOIP!

As you may have noticed from past posts, I love VOIP!
Now, I’m not a big phone talker, but recently I’ve been trying out Skype, Gizmo, & VoipStunt. Each of them have their pros & cons. But I just love the fact that I can make calls from my computer. Sure I have a phone at [...]

October 4, 2006   Posted in: Products  7 Comments

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 Nerdy [...]

October 4, 2006   Posted in: Yada  Comments Closed

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, [...]

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