Archive for March 2005
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Growing Gmail
Growing Gmail. (...)
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The Season of Growth
Spring. It’s finally here. Yesterday the temperature reached into the 60s. The sun was shining, people were smiling, and you could smell spring in the air. I decided to take advantage of the day by getting out my bike. I headed out to the Saginaw Valley Rail Trail where I planned to ride for an hour. As I pulled in, the parking lot was pretty full for a March night. (...)
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Mario - Power Up!
I wore this shirt out to the bar on Friday night and every single person I talked to made a comment about it. Most laughed actually. I just bought it the day before and happen to love the shirt. It brings back a lot of childhood memories. (...)
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Tag, You’re It!
Since I started using Flickr earlier this month, I’ve falling in love with tags. Using categories in WordPress has always been a burden, so made the move to rid the site of them. Using tags is much better way to classify things in my opinion. You can view a heat map or full list of the tags used here at MDV. (...)
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In My Bag
What’s in my bag. (...)
Take On the Fives
How many 5 year-olds could you take on? One of the greatest hypothetical questions I’ve ever come across. I think I could take on quite a few more than 30. (...)
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Johnny Chan Poker Chip Trick
New poker chip trick over at Poker Chip Tricks. It’s the Johnny Chan! (...)
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Adsense EFT
Google Adsense adds an EFT payment option. I’ll be happy to get my payments deposited right into my bank account instead of waiting 4 weeks for my monthly check to be sent. (...)
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Rack It Up
Just ordered a new bike rack to use with the hitch on my TrailBlazer. I decided to go with the Thule 996 - Expressway from Rack Attack which has some good deals right now. I can’t wait to get out on my bike again! (...)
Ya Nut
Does anyone else love the new Coke commercial? It’s the one with the “…put the lime in the Coke, ya nut…” jingle. I can’t stop singing it! (...)
Popular Photo
My most popular photo on Flickr is one with tags of “hooker” and “prostitute.” What does this say for us as a society? (...)
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Double Royal
I try not to post poker stuff here anymore, but this is worthy of a posting. While playing at Party Poker I hit the 4th and 5th royal flushes of my life less than 30 minutes apart. This is unheard of! It’s hard enough to get a royal flush, let alone two in such a short period of time. (...)
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Round 1
With the first round of the 2005 NCAA tournament completed, I couldn’t have asked for better games. I knew it was going to be a great year for March Madness, but didn’t know it was going to be so special. (...)
Wednesday Plans
Went out to Hooter’s tonight with a few friends and had a nice surprise; the Wednesday special is all you can eat wings and fries for $8.95. We quickly decided we have weekly plans for hump day. (...)
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Google Ad Links
Google adds Ad Links to AdSense. View samples. (...)
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CardiacKid
Another happy switch to WordPress. (...)
Getting Ready
The weather might not be cooperating, but I’m ready for summer. I can’t wait to get out on my bike and out on the golf course. Today I dropped my bike off at the shop for a tune-up and looked at a new bike rack to use with my hitch. (...)
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Trade DVDs
Peerflix, “Trade DVDs, don’t rent them.” (...)
What a Deal
According to Kelley Blue Book, the suggested retail on my new used TrailBlazer is $21,085 and the private party value is $17,745. I paid $17,600 out the door with everything included (tax, title, license, and fees). Gotta love small town businesses. (...)
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Firefox on Steroids
As if Firefox wasn’t fast enough, you can make it run even quicker. (...)
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Blue March
My favorite college basketball team, the Duke Blue Devils, won the ACC tournament today for the 6th time in the last 7 years (lost the title game in OT last year). What’s remarkable about the win is that they didn’t make a field goal for the final 11 minutes of the game, until Sheldon Williams had a tip-in with 3 seconds left. (...)
Making Moves
The Detroit Lions have been busy working the free agent market. Yesterday they signed Jeff Garcia to a one-year deal yesterday and earlier in the week they signed Marcus Pollard and Kenoy Kennedy to contracts. This is definitely going to be a playoff year. (...)
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Shoe Tree
Money may not grow on trees, but shoes are another story. (...)
Rogers City Photos
Random photos around my hometown. (...)
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Blog Rock
How big is blogging? A painted rock at my hometown high school has the word “blog” on it. (...)
TrailBlazer Pics
A few photos of the new ride that gets 92 MPG! (...)
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New Ride
I’m up in Rogers City for the weekend because of a big purchase I made yesterday. I bought an awesome 2002 Chevy TrailBlazer LT 4×4. It’s black and is just like brand new. The previous owner took great care of it and only put 25,000 miles on it in three years, so it’s hardly been driven. Since the vehicle has the LT package instead of the LS, it’s pretty loaded. (...)
XM Update
Yesterday I received a letter in the mail from XM regarding updates to their service. Beginning April 2, 2005, we will expand the basic service package to include two premium services at no additional charge — the High Voltage channel (previously $1.99/month) and XM Radio Online (previously $3.99/month). (...)
33rd Nick
MtDewVirus is now the 33rd result when searching for “Nick” on Google. Pretty amazing since just a few months ago I was nowhere to be found in the top 200+. (...)
82 Inches of Flat Screen
I definitely need one of these. (...)
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Ohhh Phil!
What was ESPN thinking when they used this photo in an article today? (...)
Today’s Horoscope
My horoscope for today… You’re thinking of making a major purchase. You’ve been thinking about it for days — maybe even weeks. Before you do, though, be sure you realistically take stock of what you have to spend. That means the checking account, the plastic and the ATM. Everything. How do they know I’m buying a different vehicle? (...)
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About Section
The about section of the site is finally up. (...)
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Using Flickr
Over the past two days I’ve uploaded 572 photos to my new Flickr account. I didn’t do any compression of the files when uploading, but still only managed to use 69% of my upload capacity for this month. I’m really impressed by the service that Flickr offers. For more information and links to all of my photos, visit the photos page. (...)
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The Jacket
I hadn’t heard of this movie until last night when my friend Casey and I were trying to find a movie to go see. We watched the trailer online and thought it looked good. We were right. The Jacket is one of those movies that gets you thinking and will definitely require a second viewing once the DVD comes out. The story is about Jack Starks (Adrien Brody), a man accused of killing a cop. (...)
You’re Not
You’re not your job. You’re not how much money you have in the bank. You’re not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. Fight Club I have to remember this. (...)
Give Me Back My Money
My federal income tax refund hit my bank account today. Just in time to buy a new car next week. (...)
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Fresh Build
I just finished rebuilding my computer. For the non-geeks, this means I erased everything on my computer and reinstalled Windows and all of the software. I only managed to forget to back up one thing, but it was a pretty big one. I forgot to make a copy of my poker history files, so I lost the last 5 months of statistics and record of my play. That’s over 50,000 hands of poker played online. (...)
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Back It Up
I need to back up more often. In fact, I’m sure we all do. I just wish there was an easier way. (...)
Death of a Salesman
After dealing with car salesmen, I almost wish for the death of a few. I don’t know if I’ve ever dealt with a profession which is shadier than dealing with car salesmen. These guys twist words and make up more lies than I ever could. They’re trying to rip us off in the first place…isn’t that bad enough? (...)
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A Service to Replace all Others
Yesterday I discussed my struggles to find a service for links and feeds. Today I found one. My Yahoo! Not only can I store all of my links/bookmarks and keep track of feeds, but there’s a ton of other information. In your My Yahoo! account you can create several different pages. I’ve created a total of four pages so far. My first page is called Main and has just a ton of information. (...)
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Pluck This
I justed tested out Pluck, a service which manages your links and feeds. They have a really nice piece of software that integrates with IE for reading feeds and managing everything, but it’s only for IE. Their web interface blows. Pluck shows promise, but until they can come up with something for Firefox, I don’t see them moving forward. (...)
Anna Rawson
Anna Rawson, just another female professional golfer. (...)
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Flickr
I just signed up for a free Flickr account. After I mess around with the service maybe I’ll pay for a real account and move all of my photos over there. (...)
New Faces in Detroit?
Jeff Garcia and Kurt Warner have their eye on the Detroit Lions. Garcia would be a nice pickup, but I hope the Lions steer clear of Warner. (...)
What about LA))