October 2006

Bite Me

Ideal Bite, a new daily newsletter, is a cross between the popular Daily Candy newsletter and the Sierra Club. Like the Daily Candy, you get a daily newsletter with interesting and useful tidbits surrounded by sassy illustrations. But, instead of superficial tips on things like fashion, beauty and travel, you get advice on things like fashion, beauty and travel that you can enjoy while saving the planet.

Vote for Me!

According to Dee Margo’s MySpace profile, he’s married and interested in networking and making friends. He has 40 users signed up as “friends�? including Jesus Christ, Admiral CrackMunky and Forever a Bad Ass. Dee is not a high school student, college student, a 20-something, 30-something or even a 40-something. He’s a 54 year old politician from El Paso running for a seat in the Texas State Senate and he’s using MySpace to reach out to a new, younger audience of voters.

Got Storage?

Three months ago, about a year and a half after I bought my HP laptop and 3-year service warranty, two out of three SCSI ports just stopped working. I brought my computer -my lifeline, my means of making a living — to Computer World to have them fix these ports. Simple enough, right? Some (really) young kid at the service desk, with the personality of a tissue, tells me that my entire motherboard needs to be replaced. It will take two weeks to be repaired and I need to back up all my files because while they’re replacing this “motherboard�? files could get erased or lost. Two weeks!?

Tokay for you!

Historic changes in the ever-confusing world of European wine labels.

What a Character!

Tony the Tiger. The Pillsbury Doughboy. Sonny for Coco Puffs. Trix the Rabbit. I might not remember what I did for Halloween last year, but I will always remember these product characters because they are imbedded into my subconscious. Is this just a coincidence? Am I a product of too much TV watching? Perhaps. But, it could also be that these characters were created in such a genius was as to stick in our minds – in a positive way. Who doesn’t like the Pillsbury Doughboy?