A Peculiar Blog

Here’s something that looks like a good idea. It’s called Fechr.com (pronounced “feature”). The idea is simple. Every day at 12:00 Midnight EST they feature a new site on the home page of fechr.com where it stays for 24 hours. During that time the site gets a significant boost in [...]

I just read an article about cities suing gangs to stop violence. My first reaction to this is to think that somebody out there enjoys spinning their wheels.
Why would a gang even show up in court, let alone obey any kind of court order? It seems to me that somebody has forgotten one [...]

The next item on Blog Bloke’s list of reasons for not liking a blog is
7. Your blog is on MySpace
The idea here is that a lot of serious bloggers don’t consider a lot of free platformst like MySpace to worth reading. Exactly why this is so I haven’t seen anyone saying. I’ve also [...]

Item number eight on Blog Bloke’s list of reasons for not liking a blog is
“You don’t post consistently.”
This one’s really a no brainer. Do you keep going back to blogs that go weeks or even months without new postings? Of course not. Oh, you might look in once in a while to [...]

Having seen countless mentions of things like hoodia patch that have hoodia in the name, I finally took a look to find out just what that is. Turns out it’s a cactus like thing that grows in the Kalihari Desert. The thing thats got so many people excited about it is that it’s [...]

I just read a recent EFF article about Google’s Cookie Monster and it talks about a recent announcement from google where they say that they’re changing something about the cookie they set.
Up until now, they’ve had it set to not expire until 2038, which a lot of privacy minded people think is excessive. Now [...]

Would it be a good idea perhaps to just pick up and suddenly decide to head off to tour London? It’s an interesting idea I think, though I don’t know if I’d ever actually do it, it’s still entertaining to plan something like that. After getting travel figured out, the most important thing [...]

Something like this OUGHT to be a surprize. It should hit you as a shocking revelation. People should be furious about the possibility that something like this has happened.
USDA PAID DEAD FARMERS $1.1B
The Agriculture Department sent $1.1 billion in farm payments to more than 170,000
dead people over a seven-year period, congressional investigators say. [...]

Anyone going into business will eventually reach a point where accepting credit cards will become an important part of doing buisness. That’s when they end up needing merchant account processing to handle those transactions. Sites like Merchant Express, that have been in business since 1998 provide those kinds of services at what looks [...]

Fishing, Golf, diving, whale watching. What do these things have in common? I’m sure there’s probably several others but the one that I’m thinking about right now is Cabo San Lucas, in the Mexican State of Baja California Sur. Never having been there, about the only things I have to go on [...]