Randy Charles Morin blogs for the sake of blogging.
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If I took one of those Blogthings for Which talk show host are you?, then I'd surely be Stephen Colbert. Check out his latest entry on Wikilobbying.
Add this to his recent rant about hockey (my passion) and Oshawa (my teenage home). This guy is me!
Today is the day I finally gave up on Flickr. I must have been one of their first users and first paid users, long before the Yahoo! thing. I was a really big fan, so much that I started a photosharing company.
These days, I can't upload photos using the Uploadr anymore. I've tried getting support from Yahoo!, but their response is try an alternative Flickr client. I've tried several and they all fail for me. They think the problem is my Linksys router or security software, but I have the problem with multiple computers and locations. They've been aware of this problem with many users for a year and a half. I just find it amazing how Yahoo! continues to buy great companies and kill them. If you are looking for a reason for this (stock price graph), then don't look any further.
This is goodbye. Hello Picasa!
Cineplex Odeon has introduced a membership card called Scene for the GTA (Toronto). The card is free, gives you 10% off concessions and you can build up reward points by simply going to the movies.
If they are you to turn on your cell phone at the airport, this is why.
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Scoble has been his usual self these last two days. First, he bashes some a-list bloggers for not linking to bloggers instead of the mainstream media. Then, he apologizes and says he went too far. The truth is, Scoble was 100% correct and is just being a nice guy apologizing. That's what I like about Scoble. He'll point out your flaws, tell you he's sorry and that you are great, all in the same sentence.
More to the point, he is so correct about linking behavior. I find most bloggers just love linking to big media and hate linking to their pier bloggers. That's just not the way to grow your blog. Do you really think you'll get the attention of some New York Times editor? Do you think you're having a conversation with them? In a big sea, it's very difficult to get noticed. So why do you neglect linking to your pier bloggers? I can never figure it out. Personally, I try to link every post to a blogger. Sometimes, I'll even search on topic at Google Blog Search just to find somebody else talking about the same subject and throw them a free link.
The Disney Enquirer reports that the case has been closed on the 4-year old boy who died after riding Mission:Space. Each party will pay their own attorney fees. Autopsy results indicated the death was from natural causes. You can see the court documents here.
Interesting Year: 1981
1. Prince Charles got married
2. Liverpool crowned soccer Champions of Europe
3. Australia lost the Ashes tournament.
4. Pope Died
Interesting Year: 2005
1. Prince Charles got married
2. Liverpool crowned soccer Champions of Europe
3. Australia lost the Ashes tournament
4. Pope Died
Lesson Learned?
The next time Charles gets married, someone warn the Pope.
Even the toilets want some white candy. Check out this cocaine sniffing toilet commercial.
This is better than the Star Wars kid video. And he did it purposefully.
Yo! Wazzup!
ROTFL!!!!!!!
This is just stupid. Stupid enough to laugh at.
Man may not be able to fly, but this woman can. Move over bungee jumping.
Cory Doctorow, a person who calls me friend, was named (#15) on Forbes top 25 Web celebrities. Congrats Cory! Congrats me, by association. I'm honoured just knowing the guy.
http://www.forbes.com/2007/01/23/internet-fame-celebrity-tech-media-cx_de_06webceleb_0123land.html
Very odd, but the U.S. Air Force seems to understand the YouTube generation.
- One day, the Presbyterian Church called a meeting to decide what to do about the squirrels. After much prayer and consideration, they determined that the squirrels were predestined to be there; and, they shouldn't interfere with God's divine will.
- In the Baptist Church the squirrels had taken up habitation in the baptistery. The deacons met and decided to put a cover on the baptistery, and drown the squirrels in it. The squirrels escaped somehow; and, there were twice as many there the next week.
- The Methodist Church got together and decided that they were not in a position to harm any of God's creation. So, they humanely trapped the Squirrels, and set them free a few miles outside of town. Three days later, the squirrels were back.
- But, the Catholic Church came up with the best and most effective solution. They baptized the squirrels and registered them as members of the church. Now they only see them on Christmas and Easter.
- Not much was heard about the Jewish Synagogue; but, they took one squirrel, and had a short service with him called circumcision. They haven't seen a squirrel on the property since.
Turns out, I'm a hotty! My pic on MySpace, which is quite geeky BTW, has an average ranking of 4.6 out of 5. I think I'll upload a less geeky pic and see if I can get the ranking up to 4.7.
Bell Canada, Canada's largest telco, is simply the most ridiculous company in the world. This company has a near monopoly in many parts of Canada. They could run themselves properly and make a fortune, instead of focusing on the dumb things they do. In order to improve their stock price, they converted to an income trust to gain some tax savings. The government, not being stupid, simply changed the laws to void the loophole. Instead of giving customers good service, they seem to be trying to screw their customers at every turn. The problem is that they still have all these monopoly rights which makes it too easy for people to put up with their screw jobs. I'm one of them. I have both a cell phone and land-line with them. I've tried converting, but I'm told that I wouldn't be able to keep the same phone numbers, which I've had for more than 10 years. They keep telling me that there's legislation that keeps get deferred that will enable me to move my phone number between providers. They've been telling me this for 5 years. Frustrating.
This device automatically and wirelessly charages your iPod of cell phone when you lay them on your desk. You'll never run out of battery again. It works with existing devices using an external dongle and will work with some new devices in the future.
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Hat tip to Martin for the link.
Creepy!
The newest Disney customed characters have mouthes that move.
Now that we know all the details, we can finally complete the best scene in the best movie EVAR!
Thanks to Robin for the link!
Video of Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous speech. Quite lengthy (17 minutes). Worth the watch.
I just added MyBlogLog to the right sidebar. It's pretty cool. For those users that register, your picture will be shown in the right sidebar when you've recently been reading this blog. You can also add other bloggers as contacts, join communities and leave messages. It's MySpace for bloggers that don't like ugly looking profiles.
Turns out Wii is also a weight lost aid. Like we needed another excuse to buy one.
http://wiinintendo.net/2007/01/15/wii-sports-experiment-results/
Thanks for the link Robin!
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My son is gonna love this one.
The #1 movie of 2007 will be Transformers. Check out the trailer.
Many people at NASA thought it was a casual remark concerning some rival Soviet Cosmonaut. However, upon checking, [they found] there was no Gorsky in either the Russian or American space programs.
Over the years, many people have questioned him as to what the "Good luck,
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/mrgorsky.htm
Thanks Dad!
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And here are your 2006 KBCafe Blog Awards Winners. Congrats to the winners and thanks for the 422 votes! Search Engine Rountable had the most votes in any one category with exactly 100.
- Best Google Blog - Matt Cutts
- Best Yahoo Blog - Jeremy Zawodny (2 years running)
- Best Microsoft Blog - Inside Microsoft (2 years running)
- Best Apple Blog - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
- Best Toronto Blog - BlogTO (2 years running)
- Best Sillicon Valley Blog - Metroblogging San Francisco
- Best Web 2.0 Blog - Techcrunch (2 years running)
- Best Webvertising Blog - ProBlogger (2 years running)
- Best Syndication Blog - RSS Applied
- Best Internet Communication Blog - GigaOM (2 years running)
- Best SEO Blog - Search Engine Roundtable (2 years running)
- Best L.A.M.P. Blog - 37 Signals (2 years running)
- Best Wireless Blog - The Wireless Weblog
- Best Music Blog - Zoilus
- Best Malware Blog - F-Secure
- Best Gadgets Blog - Engadget (2 years running)
- Best Photo Blog - FlickrBlog
- Best Video Blog - RocketBoom (2 years running)
- Best Movies Blog - The Movie Blog (2 years running)
- Best Hollywood Insider Blog - Hollywood Fun Camp
- Best Video Games Blog - joystiq
- Best Baseball Blog - MetsBlog
- Best Hockey Blog - HockeyDirt
- Best Scifi Blog - SF Signal
- Best War Blog - Kevin Sites (2 years running)
- Best Vehicle Blog - Autoblog (2 years running)
- Best Right-Wing Blog - The Hoffman's Hearsay (2 years running)
- Best Left-Wing Blog - Gun-Toting Liberal
- Best Law Blog - Michael Geist
- Best Venture Blog - The Post Value Money
- Best Marketing Blog - tie Seth's Blog and Micro Persuasion
- Best Disease Blog - The Cancer Blog (2 years running)
- Best Food Blog - Vegan Lunch Box
- Best Anonymous or Former Employee Blog - Xooglers
- Best New York Blog - Gawker (2 years running)
- Best Japan Blog - Sushi Cam
- Best Middle East Blog - Iraq the Model (2 years running)
- Best Web Design Blog - A List Apart (2 years running)
- Best Web Service Blog - Ajaxian
- Best Gambling Blog - The Gambling Weblog (2 years running)
- Best Basketball Blog - Blog Maverick (2 years running)
- Best Football Blog - NFL Cheerleader Blog (2 years running)
- Best Religion Blog - The Evangelical Outpost (2 years running)
- Best Anti-Fan Blog - Eye on Winer
- Best Family Blog - Dooce (2 years running)
- Best Sex Blog - Fleshbot (2 years running)
- Best MySpace Blog - Mashable
A trailer for Disney's upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean MMORPG (i.e. online game).
The worst proof in the world, is when you extrapolate using a very small subset of the data. For instance this video by Sir David Attenborough. He uses data from the last 150 years to extrapolate that we are causing the Earth to increase in temperature. What you have to remember is that the Earth is millions of years old. So, he's using less than 1% of 1% of the data to prove his point. Now, 1% of 1% of my life is about 1.x days. If you used the last 1.x days to examine my employability, then you'd say that I'm not employable. Yet clearly I've worked most of my life. Now don't get me wrong, I'm an environmentalist, but I just hate proof by example and this guys did us a disservice by giving the opposition an easy argument.
And thanks to Martin for sending me the video.
I think this is the first YouTube video that was so popular, it kicked started this girls career. She even started a blog and been on TV.
- Visits from all versions of Firefox in the last 7 days is 10,535.
- Visits from version 7 of Internet Explorer in the last 7 days is 9,796.
- Total visits was 53,271.
Burger King's I am a Man Texas Double Whopper commercial.
I added a small blogroll in the right sidebar (bottom). I use to have a 1000 feed blogroll, which I couldn't exactly outline on this blog. I've reduced it to a dozen or so blogs so that I can share link love with those that share link love with me. Initial blogroll is reproduced below. If you are a regular here and missing from the list, then leave a comment and I'll consider adding you.
I tried RuneScape earlier today. Quite a time killer. A little too slow for me. I played for 15 minutes and was only partly thru the tutorial. The Java interface was very jerky and the player is not very responsive. I can't believe this is one of the most popular MMORPGs. I do very much like the fact that it runs in the Web browser; how I hate installing things.
Just a reminder that the KBCafe blog awards will terminate at 11PM PST on January 10th. You can vote with the following form. Thanks!
The top searches on Yahoo! last week included "mckinney north pictures," "mckinney north cheerleaders," and "mckinney fab five". It appears cheerleaders are the new bullies in highschool. Check out what these high school cheerleaders have been up to.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16441559/site/newsweek/
Thanks to oemperor for the link. [play tag with me]
Tonight I have the privilege of watching one of the worst movies ever. It's so bad, you want to keep watching, just to see how bad it is. And there's a sequel.
Finally, a useful photosharing website. Take a picture of an asshole that can't park and upload it here. Too bad they blur the license plates. It would be nice if you could sort them by plates and get a feel for the biggest assholes of them all.
More swag. Hey when you are a professional blogger, you have to sell-out completely.
I'll keep these as Christmas gifts for my children when they become teenagers. This year they got FeedBurner pins and stickers. My youngest loves stickers. Send me more swag. I'm a starving blogger. If you send me Swag, then I'll take pictures of it and include it in a blog post.
Randy Charles Morin
P.O. Box 93042,
499 Main Street South,
Brampton, Ontario, L6Y4V8, Canada
A small easy to follow tutorial on beating the crane game.
Hat tip to Coolz0r for the link [play tag with me candidate]
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Alec Saunders: Web 2.0 photo-sharing startup Bubbleshare been acquired by Kaboose (TSX: KAB) for $2.25 million plus an additional $750K possible earnout.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/saunders/~3/70754902/
Albert, nice pot! Congratulations to the entire team.
My cousin, poker buddy and agent Mary has an online baby sling business called Z'Fina. Her slings are also in a few stores in Toronto and Ottawa. There's also a Z'Fina blog.
PR: Despite a September survey found that 64% of Americans are repulsed by the idea of eating food from cloned animals, the FDA announced this week that milk, eggs and meat from cloned animals will soon be allowed on the market. Ignoring a number of disturbing studies suggesting potential human health hazards [cut].
Sexy Reebok commercial starring Shakira.
A sexy game where you blow into a mic to get a girl to do various things.
Video of the Saddam Hussein hanging hit Google Video.
Don Dodget: The Edwards campaign invited Scoble to travel with them around the country to formerly announce his run for the presidency.
Randy: This is big. Big for Edwards, but even bigger for political bloggers. Congrats to both Scoble and Edwards.
Gears of War has the best trailer and commercial of any RPG. Never played the game. The trailer and commercial are entertainment enough.
Funny and banned breast exam commercial.
Greg Narain has a list of things to do in 2007. Great idea! Here's mine.
Books to read...
- None
Work to be accomplished...
- None
Personal Projects...
- Taxes (ya me too!)
Places to Visit...
- New Orleans
- Houston
- Tucson
- San Diego
- Anaheim
- Las Vegas
- Grand Canyon
- Dallas
- Thunder Bay
- Cobalt
- Winnipeg
- Edmonton
- Detroit
- Indianapolis
- Minett
I was asked by a reader what the breakdown of my earnings are on the KBCafe blogs. Here's a list based on my recent AdSense earnings.
- The RSS Blog - 41%
- iBLOGthere4iM - 38%
- Meta-MySpace - 9%
- Besting AdWords - 1.5%
- Game Certainty - 1.5%
- Destroy All Malware - 1.5%
This does not account for earnings from BlogAds, ReviewMe and FeedBurner FAN, but Google accounts for most of my revenues and the rest wouldn't affect the percentages very much.
I got exactly in the middle, so my brain is neither more male or more female. Spotting the difference, I scored 64%. Systemizing, I scored 15 of 20. Eyes, I got only 5 of 10. 3D Shapes, I got perfect. Words, I sucked off the bottom of the chart.
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Voting for the KBCafe blog awards will terminate at 11PM PST on January 10th.
When I processing the nominations, many of the nominated blogs were no longer active or were off topic and I did not include those. Feel free to email me with any questions reguarding why I did not include some nominated blogs. In particular, many blog were nominated from WeblogsInc that have been dormant for many months.
Hugh Macleod posted his five things you don't know about him and of course, he got me ROTFL.
- I dislike you intensely.
- I love it when bad things happen to you.
- When your name is mentioned I immediately try to change the subject.
- I wouldn't read your blog if you paid me.
- If we were trapped on a desert island together I would kill myself.
http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/003585.html