Archive for April 2007
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Spammers Attack
Over the past week I’ve had a problem with spammers hitting my comment form hardcore both here and at 2 Hole Cards so hard it was crashing the web host server. They had to disable the sites and it looks like the spammers have moved along. Just to help out for future attacks, I’ve upgraded to the latest and greatest testing version of WordPress and added Spam Karma 2.3 as a new plugin. (...)
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Horizontal vs. Vertical Space
I love my 50 inch LCD wide screen TV. I love my 13 inch wide screen MacBook. I just hooked up a 19 inch wide screen high definition display as my primary monitor at work and moved my normal 19 inch to a secondary monitor. I’m not quite sure I like the wide screen display. (...)
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Knock Knock
One thing I don’t like about being a homeowner is all the knocks at my front door. Everybody wants something. Yesterday it was some young kid looking for signatures, donations, and people to write letters to the Senator for the Michigan trash problem. Now that the weather has warmed up it seems like I’m getting a couple of people a week at the door. (...)
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Google Docs & Spreadsheets Finally Add Charts
I had a little fun charting golf stats with the new charts functionality in Google Docs & Spreadsheets. (...)
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H&R Block Knows the Value of a Customer
I usually do my own taxes, but with the sale of pokerchiptricks.com and all of the other miscellaneous income from web sites this year, I was more than a little confused. I started with the free TaxCut federal version from H&R Block. Once I got to the part for State taxes, I went ahead and purchased the Michigan version for $24.95. My credit card ended up being charged twice for some reason. (...)
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Tax Day 2007
I just mailed out checks for my 2006 taxes and estimated tax payments for the first quarter of 2007. Are your taxes done? (...)
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Fatblogging
A few months ago Jason Calacanis started a flatblogging revolution. He challenged bloggers to work on their health and fitness, writing about it along the way. Well, I’ve been working out consistently for over a year now and haven written about it in awhile. Back on February of last year, I wrote about my weight nearly hitting 200. (...)
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FaceBall at Flickr
Someday I want to work at a place which plays fun games like Faceball at Flickr. (...)
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What is a “Hoya”?
While watching Georgetown during March Madness this year, the question came about their nickname and “What is a Hoya?” We thought it might be some type of bulldog, but after looking it up, I don’t quite feel so stupid for not knowing what a Hoya actually is. No one really knows. (...)
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Review: 300
I went to see 300 at an IMAX the week it came out. We drove from Saginaw all the way to Lansing one night after work, which put the total drive time around 3 hours. That’s a lot of driving to see a movie when I could have went 2 miles down the road from my house. Well…it was well worth it! 300 is one of the greatest movies I’ve ever seen, if not the greatest. (...)
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The 411, Google Style
Call 1-800-GOOG-411 (1-800-466-4411) for free or visit Google Voice Local Search for more details. This is an awesome service! (...)
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April SNOW Showers
Last Sunday was it was 70 and sunny. I was out golfing. It was April Fools Day and the joke was on us. The past few days have brought temperatures in the 20s and snow. I drove up to Rogers City last night and ran into a snow storm with 2 inches of fresh snow. Whatever happened to simply “April showers” to bring the May flowers? (...)
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Michigan Basketball Will Rise
With John Beilein coming to coach the University of Michigan, maybe we can get excited about something other than football again. He did a great job at West Virginia. (...)