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Archive for January, 2007

Agloco.com

I have put off posting on this for a long time, because of my mixed feelings on the subject, but it came up in a conversation today and it refreshed my interest in the subject. So here goes…
What is Agloco?
Ever hear of AllAdvantage? These where the original “get paid to surf” people, a 1999 startup [...]

JetPens- My Favorites

OK, I’ll admit it: I like pens. I do so much work on the computer than when I have a chance to write something down I guess I just appreciate it. This is not anything new, I used to like more expensive writing tools, but lately my interests have drifted to cheap stuff (the average [...]

Quick Movies News

Not too much to report lately but I checked out FirstShowing.net and saw that Alex is over at Sundance! Good stuff.  He has a whole bunch of cool content about the event and the movies, but I have to admit I am way more excited by the fact that he got to meet Nathan Fillion! [...]

1&1 Preview Expires Tomorrow

That’s right, it’s all over. The free 1and1.com shared Professional Package hosting package that so many people signed up for three years ago ends tomorrow.
The packages where originally given out, one per email account, to whoever wanted one. This gave free, relatively high quality hosting to a LOT of people (though probably less than it [...]

Bourdain Comments on Top Chef

Anthony Bourdain has a guest post on Michael Ruhlman’s blog in which discusses the season 2 Top Chef contestants. Even if you are not a Bourdain fan (I don’t blame you) it is an interesting post with some interesting insights from a professional chef on how the contestans did and how they will do in [...]

I just read a great post over at Eater about one unfortune person’s experience at the Waverly Inn. The post was done by a “NYC restaurant professional” who seems very fair, and even liked the food, but clearly felt compelled to write something after experiencing the restaurant’s service. After reading the post, I don’t blame [...]

Gmail Down? WTF

I went out for a few minutes and went I got home and I tried to check my mail, this is what I got. This was at 8:52PM EST, though I have no idea when it started. Basically I can’t get to the login screen and am stuck with this rather unhelpful message.
The full [...]

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