Archive for August, 2005

Comfort Suites Raising Prices

Wednesday, August 31st, 2005

Imagine you have just been ordered to evacuate your city because of a deadly hurricane rushing into the area. This probably is a very unsettling situation.
Well, let’s take it a step further.
Now, imagine showing up at a hotel who’s normal rate for a room is $79/night, but due to the hurricane, is now charging […]

Missed Katrina by a month

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005

It wasn’t much more than a month ago that I was in New Orleans at the IFT trade show. At that time I was worried a little about hurricane Dennis. Apparently, Katrina is the one I’m glad I missed.
Eighty percent of New Orleans is, currently, under 6-20ft of water according to CNN.com. I couldn’t even […]

Which Seinfeld character are you?

Friday, August 26th, 2005

Babu… You scored 81% Likeability, 33% lasciviousness, 44% Laziness, and 32% harshness!

You are a hard worker that is well liked by those around you. You are
always trying to succeed, but you have occasional setbacks such as
being shipped out of your country. You may sometimes be a nice person,
but you can get angry […]

Nerd, Geek, or Dork

Friday, August 26th, 2005

Joe Normal 26 % Nerd, 34% Geek, 17% Dork

For The Record:
A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.
A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.
A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.
You scored less than half […]

Introducing Google Talk

Wednesday, August 24th, 2005

Google Talk
They say talk is cheap. Google thinks it should be free. Google Talk enables you to call or send instant messages to your friends for free–anytime, anywhere in the world.
So officially, Google, everyone’s favorite search engine and email client, is throwing its hat into the ring with other IM giants, MSN, AOL, and YAHOO. […]

A World of Warcraft World

Friday, August 19th, 2005

There are more people playing World of Warcraft in the U.S. today (two million) than had indoor plumbing 100 years ago. There are more people with blogs today (31 million) than had internet connections ten years ago.
Thomas Edison said it best: “Change happens with ball-flattening speed.”
via Pointless Waste of Time

No More Cow Bell

Thursday, August 18th, 2005

Well it looks like the “Walken in 2008″ campaign may be a hoax. According to Urban Legends and Folklore, “Web chatter (when has it ever been wrong?) attributes the hoax to members of the aptly named General Mayhem message boards”.
I kindof figured this may not be true, but it was fun to think of the […]

Walken 2008

Tuesday, August 16th, 2005

Christopher Walken is throwing his hat into the 2008 Presidential race. He couldn’t do any worse than Bush could he? So why not.
This will be an interesting one to watch. Unless, of course, this whole thing turns out to be a hoax.
You know what this needs……. MORE COW BELL!

Back to civilization

Monday, August 15th, 2005

I’m back.. didja miss me? Didn’t know I was gone? Well I was. I went camping on Thursday and returned home yesterday (Sunday). So I haven’t posted for a few days. I’m still catching up on reading all of the blogs I watch so don’t expect anything epic out of me today… not that anything […]

Introducing ME SMASH!

Tuesday, August 9th, 2005

A friend of mine, and regular commenter here on A Random Act of Blogging, decided to finally bite the bullet and thrust his ideas onto the rest of Internet society. ME SMASH! is the result of his ramblings. Take a look and help him increase his traffic. Let him know what you like and […]