Randy Charles Morin blogs for the sake of blogging.
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I [Chris Pirillo] just got word (through Tom Merrit on the TechTV Alumni discussion list) about this. Your help would be greatly appreciated: CNET editor and former Fresh Gear contributor and Lab analyst James Kim has been missing since Saturday. ANY word, especially...
Just getting the word out.
PR: Swarmcast, the Minneapolis- and Tokyo-based inventor of grid network content distribution via the Internet, today announced that its parent company, Onion Networks Japan, has recently completed a venture round, raising more than US $5 million capital.
Randy: The Swarmcast patent may be extremely valuable. It predates most P2P file sharing and everybody may be in violation. On the other hand, it hasn't been defended and may be invalid.
Earlier this week, the Toronto Raptors were robbed. The Atlanta Hawks scorekeeper failed to count two point in the trailing minutes of a game, which resulted in the score being 95-93 instead of tied 95-95 in the last seconds. This forced the Raptors to foul the Hawks and lose the game 97-93. The league has decided that the basket never occured and won't even give the Raptor's T.J. Ford his deserved two points. Further, the error was known to have occured during the game and the scorekeeper, who works for the Atlanta Hawks, was approached with the issue and refused to change the score. Isn't this the definition of cheating?
Finally, an airline that understands my needs.
Last October, I got a Ford recall on my RV. I brought the RV to Dixie Ford and was treated to some really horrible service. Of course, I posted a summary of my horrible service on the RV Dad blog. Ya, another one of my 100+ blogs. Anyhow, I got a comment on that blog post about a week ago that said "Has anyone put down a deposit for a 2007 Shelby GT500 with Dixie Ford. Any comments?" I thought that comment was a little weird. I mean, what are the odds of someone answering. Today, someone answered "Yes. I have had great service and my car is coming soon." Wow, what are the odds of that happening? 100%. The user posted that comment from 63.250.103.66, which is mail.dixieford.com. How pathetic! Posted by an employee of Dixie Ford. On one hand, you have to be like that Ford is now engaging the blogosphere. On the other, that type of lameness explains their stock price.
Tom Locke sent out 100 letters to 100 different companies asking for free stuff. Cost $39. Check out what he got.
Earlier today on The RSS Blog, I blogged about the free swag I got from FeedBurner. The response? It seems people want to send me free swag, wear it and blog it. If you got free swag and want me to post pics of me wearing your corporate swag, then send it to me please.
Randy Charles Morin
P.O. Box 93042,
499 Main Street South,
Brampton, Ontario, L6Y4V8, Canada
I'll post the pics on my blog and sell it on eBay. Your Web 2.0 will be so popular and I need the free clothing as I'm unemployed. Wow, I've discovered a new source of income. Can't wait to off-load this stuff on eBay.
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Red Flag Deals: Future Shop has a new pair of coupons, available for use until December 2. If you’re shopping online, use:
- Save $15 on purchases of $150 or more with coupon code 15NOVOFF753616937953
- Save $50 on purchases of $500 or more with coupon code 50NOV0FF753672836867
For in-store purchases, you can print off the coupons in PDF format.
PayPal is offering $20 off $50 or more in purchases from November 23rd to December 31th, 2006. They are also offering free shipping at selected sites.
http://paypal.promotionexpert.com/holiday/
Google is offering similar deals. $10 off $30, $20 off $50 and $10 sign-up.
http://www.google.com/press/annc/checkout_holiday.html
http://checkout.google.com/holiday/
http://www.google.com/checkout/signupbonus.html << U.S. only
It's gonna be a cheap online shopping holiday season thanks to Google and eBay.
I think this was my favorite commercial of all time. For the next couple years, I answered the phone... whasstup!
AP: A church that wanted to do something special for Hurricane Katrina victims gave a $75,000 house, free and clear, to a couple who said they were left homeless by the storm. But the couple turned around and sold the place without ever moving in, and went back to New Orleans. [cut] "I really don't like this area," said Delores Thompson.
Randy: Beware of scams. Let's see. They gave money to strangers. WTF? They were begging to be scammed.
Coke has come up with a great WoW commercial. This is amazing.
Coke still sucks. It's a dispicable company. I don't buy their products. I have a conscience.
I get so much Viagara spam that I was wondering why do people buy this stuff from spammers? If they didn't buy it from spammers, then the spammers wouldn't be hammering my inbox. Obviously, they do buy it online from spammers. So then, why don't they buy it from Amazon instead? Turns out that Amazon doesn't sell Viagara, but they do sell similar stuff; for both men and women.
Red Flag Deals: Listings placed today (November 21) on eBay.com are priced at 20 cents per listing until the end of the day.
Rogers Cadenhead: When he [Mike Arrignton] wrote about the company [Maya's Mom] in April, he told his readers that Maya's Mom founder Ann Crady Kennedy was one of his peeps. [cut] This sentence subsequently disappeared, so TechCrunch readers weren't told in October that he was hyping a pal. After he was caught by ValleyWag, Arrington offered a novel defense -- conflicts of interest are what make TechCrunch special.
Randy: I find it amazing that some of the same bloggers that jump all over the mainstream media when they aren't transparent, continue to lick Mike's ass. It's great to see at least a few bloggers (Rogers et al.) impose those same standards on our own.
Voting is open for the 2006 Canadian Blog Awards. There's seems to be some big gaps in the nominations. No Mark Evans? No Alec Saunders? No Jon Arnold? No Jeff Nolan?
Jason Schramm is looking for beta testers for his book trading exchange; Nexus Trade. Sign up and you'll be invited next week to the Beta.
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I get a lot of anonymous user comments that eventually disappear from the Internet when my clean algorithm decides I need more disk space. Many of those comments are really worth preserving, so from now on, I'm going to reblog any user comments that show this kind of insight. This comment was left on a blog entry titles Future Shop Sucks Blog.
Don't talk about things you don't know...
As a curreint Future Shop employee in the Car Audio department, I just think that you North Americans are too worried about money. Where I come from dowwn in the Caribbean, people make on average 1/3 of what you make but stilll live life day by day. Everyone here is living for the future, working toward an obtainable goal but guess what! The future never comes and if it does, you have worked soo hard and have achieved your purpose so you have nothing left to do.
Speaking of Future....
1) Just because we make commision, doesn't mean we are scammers. We need to put bread on the table too. We dodn't ask to be put on commision, that's just the way it is.
2) When you ask 'for a deal' you don't realise that it comes out of ourr pocket, and cuts down our commision. So because I buy a case with my ipod, i tink we should get a deal? That's like asking the good people at McDonald's to give you $2 off because you bought fries with your Value Pick. So because this TV pays you $100 in commision, i think i should get $50 offf it? That's like asking a janitor "if i don't spill my milk today, will you give me $2 off every hour you work today?" Face it, commision can drive people to oversell, it's true but that doesn't mean you have to disespect every salesman.
3) Aah the dreaded PSP......
Yes, a salesman can drill you with the 'performance guarantee' or the '60 day replacement guarantee' or tell you each and every thing that can go wrong with it but the bottom line is we've all owned at least one electronic that has crapped out on us. And we almost never even think of the manufacturers warranty, rather we just weigh up the cost of buying a new one. Maybe if you would open your damn minds and listen, you would realise that the manufacturers have lost all confidence in their products and lessened their warranties to a year or less and that the cost and hassle of getting a product repaired under a manufacturers warranty is worth the extra $60 on your iPod! Yes they make a profit on warranties, they wouldn't sell it if they didn't. But i know you fucking white people, you bitch, moan and complain about every fucking thing that affects you financially. Seriously, everytrhing these xcanadians talk about either revolves around their housing projects or money. Its a good investment people! And the best part is, even if you get your product repaired 1 year down the line with a manufactures warranty, you will be casting a witsful eye at the hot new iPod Tera, or whatver the latest thing is. More often than not, FS will replace your product rather than shell out to repair it.
4) if you don't like it, go to WalMart. I'm sure that they'll be happy to eexplain to yout that an ipod can 'play songs an like, you use your computer to put the uh...songs on.' We know our products. it takes the newbies a while to learn uup on the new things and its noyt their fault. we were all new at our job at some point and we all felt unsure and a little dumb. The fact is, t we have tthe products you want. YOu have to go through us to get them. if you on't like the way we move, fine. You can leave. but you won't be taking anytrhing home with you.
fucking Canadian whiners.
Jason Schramm is reporting that Blog News Channel, a major blog network, has 410ed, that is, they're gone from the Internet. Their hosting provider died and they didn't do a backup.
http://www.jasonblogs.com/2006/11/09/blog-news-channel-down/
Digg it!
http://www.digg.com/tech_news/What_do_I_do_when_my_hosting_vanishes_Please_Digg_Help_Vizaweb_Story
Ok, it's time to vote for the best posts in the last two months. Review the posts below and select one or more that you think are the best. Whomever sent me the links via the del.icio.us for:randymorin tag for the top two entries will receive free books from Amazon. This is a popularity contest and shouldn't be taken seriously. Cheating will be tolerated. Tell all your friends to vote. The 10 finalists were chosen by browsing the entries for the last two months and selecting 10 of them at random. Random may have included other factors like funny, informative, I like that person, etc. Voting closes in a week.
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It's been two months since I last gave out a book for the best tagged blog entries. In other words, I owe my readers two books. So, I've compiled a list of 10 articles submitted to me via the del.icio.us for:randymorin tag in the last 2 months. I'll post a poll tomorrow where you can vote for your favorites. The top two will receive free books from Amazon. Here are the top ten articles sorted by some weird algorithm.
Chris Nolan wants to know what Remembrance Day means to you. Tag your replies remembranceday. I mostly think about a poem and red poppies. I'm not sure what it means to me, as my dad and uncles were too young to fight in the wars and my grandfathers were too old.
Way funny!
This is funny! But Hummers are still gay.
Thanks Coolz0r! [play tag with me]
... or at least my name is. Sign-up and your name will be included on a DVD that is shipped to Mars. OK, that's kinda gay, but it's free gay, which is cool!
http://planetary.org/special/fromearth/phoenix
Thanks to Sterling Camden for the link [play tag with me].
OK, it's only funny if you are a geek. And you can't even embed the videa. That sucks! But it's geek funny.
Scott Adams has announced the results of the Weasel Awards.
- Weaseliest Pundit/Reporter - Michael Moore
- Weaseliest Industry - Oil
- Weaseliest Company - Haliburton
- Weaseliest Politician - George W. Bush
- Weaseliest Celebrity - Tom Cruise
- Weaseliest Sport Person - Barry Bonds
- Weaseliest Organization - Republican Party
- Weaseliest Country - United States
No surprises!
http://dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/shop/html/weasel_poll_results_2006.html
List of the top 100 space images taken or inspired by the Hubble telescopr.
I'm looking for someone to help me make a 16x16 icon for RMail that I can use with the Google Toolbar API and as a favicon. Submit icons to randy@kbcafe.com and I'll reward the winner with a free Amazon book (up to $20).
http://toolbar.google.com/buttons/apis/howto_guide.html
Another great Bud beer commercial.
I love Flickr. Type the right keywords and you are on your way to ROTFL.
Odd Sign Placement
Originally uploaded by Mr. Goggles.
I was able to determine that it's a three way stop. So, the likelyhood of the confusion causing an accident is slightly reduced.
Or maybe it's just mirrors, makeup and photoshop.
Thanks to Marjolein Hoekstra for the link [play tag with me].