A Peculiar Blog

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!No doubt most people on the Internet today are aware to some degree that web sites can use an assortment of tricks to find out information about you and your surfing habits. By using things like cookies, javascript, Active-X [...]

What’s the first thing you see on bowling.com? LOTS of bowling balls. Then in the sidebar you find links to every kind of bowling accessory you can imagine from Bowling Shoes to books and videos about bowling.
They’re even running a contest for a new Bowling ball (what else, right?) Apparently it’s a monthly contest, [...]

It shouldn’t, but there’s an increasing number of cases where people have been fired because of blogging. There’s a post on Wired Blogs that talks about a survey that claims “Nearly Ten Percent of Companies Have Fired Bloggers“.
Why does this happen? Sometimes an employee will be fired because they’re blogging while AT work [...]

Here’s another in the growing list of social bookmarking type sites. This one’s called “Thoof”
It’s intended to be an objective measure of how interesting readers think something is. I’ve even heard of at least one of the creators of Thoof. Ian Clarke is also the founder and creator of the Freenet Project.
On [...]

In his entry “10 Reasons Why I Don’t Like Your Blog”, Blog Bloke advises against discussing controversial topics like politics or religion.
From what I’ve read, I would go so far as to say that if you’re going to discuss politics or religion, then it’s a good idea to stay within what you know. For [...]

Here’s a tough question. What’s more important, increasing refinery capacity or keeping pollution down? That’s the question facing folks in Whiting, Indiana BP is planning to expand it’s refinery. The expansion will allow them to refine the heavier Canadian crude oil. This will mean an increase in oil production and according [...]

I just ran across this on my brother’s blog and decided that it’s such a good idea that I needed to get in on it. In a way, it looks sorta like a chain letter but instead of sending money, you’re giving links. All you do is take the entries in “the Extended [...]

Once again RFID is raising it’s ugly head as we see another instance of people getting “chipped”.
iWon News - Microchip Implants Raise Privacy Concern
Microchip Implants Raise Privacy ConcernCityWatcher.com, a provider of surveillance equipment, attracted little notice itself - until a year ago, when two of its employees had glass-encapsulated microchips with miniature antennas embedded in [...]

Have you ever suffered from muscle or joint pain? If you have then I have found something that you’re going to want to check out. It’s called “Freeze It“. It’s a topical pain reliever that’s different from the one’s I’ve seen before.
I’ve used some of these things like Aspercreme, which works [...]

The morning news briefs today brings a headline that makes me wonder about how effective polls really are and just how much people will either say just about anything because they think it’s outrageous or because they’re just going along with what they think the poll questions want.
POLL: 63% SAY CLINTON “LIKELY” TO WIN
A CBS [...]