Archive for November 2007
TopGear Season 10 Episode 7 Review
Posted by: theprotagonist5 on: November 29, 2007
I enjoyed this week’s show. It was good to see something different. James, Richard and Jeremy all go buy vintage British cars from the 1970’s. They all seem to be small economical cars that are 4 door hatchbacks or mini 4 door sedans. They also seem to be the design that my dad’s 70’s era [...]
Holiday Movie Guide 2007 – Top Movies to see this Christmas
Posted by: theprotagonist5 on: November 28, 2007
I have been looking at the New Movies being released in the next month and it looks like there will be a lot to see over the christmas holiday break. A lot of big blockbuster movies will be out and hopefully everyone will have more free time around the holidays to go out and see [...]
Online Christmas Shopping Coupons
Posted by: theprotagonist5 on: November 28, 2007
I have gotten most of my Christmas shopping done even though it is not even December yet. I was smart and got online and got things bought the easy way. (without standing in long lines and driving all over the place) I do like shopping online more that shopping in malls this time of year [...]
Holiday Shopping Guide Online
Posted by: theprotagonist5 on: November 28, 2007
This time of year everyone is looking for the best gifts to give and the best deals. It is hard to pick out stuff from crowded department stores and guess what people will like. There is a new blog I ran across called shoppingaddicted.com that reviews products and has some good suggestions for gifts this [...]
Why ATT High Speed DSL Sucks
Posted by: theprotagonist5 on: November 28, 2007
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Apparently this is turning into a rant blog this week. I am trying to get my parents set up with DSL service within the Chicago metropolitan area and AT&T came back with the message that the service is not available in the area. How nuts is that? ATT sends us a million direct mail offers for DSL and then [...]
Cleaning out the Garage
Posted by: theprotagonist5 on: November 27, 2007
The garage at my parent’s place is packed. It is so packed with yard related stuff that it is getting tricky to pull both cars into it and not hit anything. I normally wouldn’t notice but I was there over the thanksgiving weekend helping cook and syating there a while and I brought the garbage [...]
TopGear is Pissing me off! (BBC America Edits a Lot Out)
Posted by: theprotagonist5 on: November 27, 2007
Ok TopGear and company, I thought you had finally come to your senses and finally decided to broadcast TopGear to the United States via BBC America. I was glad the US Pilot was scrapped (because there was no open audition for it) and people would stop uploading your videos to YouTube because they would be able [...]
New Travel Site Contest for Key West
Posted by: theprotagonist5 on: November 27, 2007
There is a new travel web site called Trusted Tours and Attractions that is having a contest drawing for free tour tickets from all the people who sign up for it’s new e-newsletter. I thought I would mention it in case you wanted a chance to win 4 tickets for the tour of your choice [...]
Google to hit 900? Then what?
Posted by: theprotagonist5 on: November 23, 2007
I was reading yesterday that Google increased it’s marketshare in search by about 1 percent to 64.5% of the searches done in the US each month. The up side of this is that they are gaining marketshare from the other few search competitors and are poised to continue being the leaders for a long time [...]
Short Week for Thanksgiving
Posted by: theprotagonist5 on: November 20, 2007
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A lot of people are out of the office this week and everyone who is here is in jeans and casual clothes. Everyone is on the phone with family trying to coordinate arrivals and departures already. And Michigan Avenue is lit up like it’s Christmas already beneath the layer of fog that has just rolled [...]
New E-Book Reader: Kindle
Posted by: theprotagonist5 on: November 19, 2007
I saw this today via read-write-web and I was amazed by the fugly-ness of this device. I was hopeful that an electronic book reader would be revolutionary and evolutionary at the same time and this looks like it is from 1989. Was it designed then? Couldn’t they find any better materials? Why beige? Ugh. It [...]
Even More Business Confusion
Posted by: theprotagonist5 on: November 16, 2007
I work in metrics so I see a lot of new data and have to decide what it means and how it can help us, but I was hearing someone talk about a business intelligence position here today and I realized I don’t exactly know what that is. It’s not what I do but I am [...]
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