Google Checkout is evil. No, seriously. Bad newz! Whenever I see a site where I can buy something with Google Checkout I know it’s going to be easy and I won’t have to enter my billing address and my shipping address and my cc number and one more password for a site that I’ll never [...]
Man, this guy cracks me up: “First, if you are American, and you believe the deficit means certain doom, you should cash in all of your investments and move into some sort of survivalist encampment, or to a country that has less of a budget problem. You don’t want to pay your share of the [...]
My wife’s like Hyundai Accent is almost 10 years old and it’s falling apart. Still runs but we have to start looking. I want three rows of seats AND 50 mpg but that’s not an option we have to settle for one or the other. So I start looking at the Prius. Right from the [...]
I don’t have a texting (SMS) plan on my phone . . . it’s $5/month for 200 messages and $20 for unlimited (AT&T) and though it would come in handy sometimes I refuse to pay for something that should be free! Also I never think to use it because I just use the SMS feature [...]
Okay, so the hackathon of my Google Phone is over. I decided to “root” my G2 (Google Ion, myTouch, whatever) phone so that I can install other versions of the operation system. The primary reason was the speed advantages but I was also interested in wifi tethering. There are a ton of options but I [...]
Not sure if this came after www.stackoverflow.com but it’s horrible! http://www.justanswer.com/ No mention that you have to pay to get an answer. And, just out of curiosity I decided to go ahead and offer $9 for an answer to my question (it was about my garage door and how it won’t close at around 5pm [...]
Wherein Jim discovers the joys of oversized electronics.
Some background first . . . . I got my wife the iPhone 3G the day it came out. Waited in a line for a few hours and everything. She had been using a Razr for about 3 years and it was time. And we were already on the AT&T network so it was easy. [...]
This article that I found with Consumerist inspired me to make my own list that’s small now but will grow as I remember the places that underwhelmed me. Meteor Crater (someplace in AZ) I won’t even bother trying to find this on the map because I’m sure it’s a Google Search away . . . [...]
I made the Skittles flavored vodka. http://mixthatdrink.com/skittles-vodka-tutorial/ Basically, you separate the Skittles into colors and put them in empty water bottles to dissolve in vodka for a few hours (or overnight). Then you have to filter out the white gelatinous stuff. I did the filtering with coffee filters and the white stuff that was left in the filter had [...]