Archive for November, 2008

Hotmail now allows free forwarding

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

Thought I'd never see this day.  My circa 1995 Hotmail account finally allows me to forward email to another account.  A sane move by Microsoft and Hotmail. But there is always a catch. All your forwarded mail gets deleted from the Hotmail site. No big deal there. But ...

Love it when Twitter looks like this

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008



No Free Dr. Pepper for Me

Monday, November 24th, 2008

Dr. Pepper promised everyone free Dr. Pepper if Guns and Roses released their album, Chinese Democracy, in 2008. G n' R at long last delivered, but not Dr. Pepper, at least not for me.  I tried foolishly for too long yesterday to get some at http://drpepper.com/freedrpepper .  The offer ...

Amazon: ‘Customers Vote’ Promotion

Monday, November 24th, 2008

I received a somewhat interesting email from Amazon -- from all of their unwanted email they send.  It is titled: My Name: Vote for Our Most Ridiculous Deals.  I clicked, taking me to a landing page where, from what I gather, you vote on products you'd like to buy then ...

Fatwater

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

I shot and edited this heinousness. The music is by Leo Kottke, The Old 97's and, I believe, an instrumental by the Beastie Boys. If anybody is wondering about the title, "Fatwater", I guess it is kind of a play on Blackwater and "Fatroll" which is a nick name of one of ...

Down for everyone or just me.com

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

So I'm trying to test this new site that was passed along to me: DownForEveryoneOrJustMe.com and am experiencing trouble finding sites that could be potentially "down".  (Internet, you are just too perfect today.)  But finally found one with one of my favorite radio stations, WFMU.  When I tried streaming their ...

All Things Twitter

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Looks like Twitter is down again for database maintenance.  They have come up with this humdinger of a "be right back" image.  I have yet to scope the "failwhale" recently.

Is Twitter ‘Fail Whale’ gone? Replaced with this image?

Monday, November 10th, 2008

Last Friday I clicked on Twitter>>Find people>>Search, typed in a name and hit enter. And today it says the same thing it did then: This feature is temporarily disabled. Thanks for your patience while we work to restore it. And there is an image of a bird staring down a bug.  What ...