Archive for November, 2008

A new place to sell handmade wares

So I’ve been seeing on several blogs that there is this new website called Art Fire where artisans who make handmade items can put their products up for sale for one monthly fee. Right now for the first 5000 artisans who sign up, it will only be $7/mo for life – as long as [...]

Amazon’s “Customers Vote” program

Every year Amazon has this neat program where they list three different products that, if it receives enough votes, will be available for certain selected buyers to purchase at a GREAT discount price (sometimes like 50% off).  This year they have 18 different products to vote on in six rounds.  If you vote, you get [...]

The jalepenos are potent today

Chipotle for lunch.
Chips and guac on the side.
Jalepenos in the guac.
OOOOWWWWW!!!!! They’re too hot for me today. Which is sad because I like their guacamole. Oh well.

Holiday shopping for the Hybrid lover

My husband and I have wanted a hybrid for a while now, but it just hasn’t been in the cars, I mean cards. We are only making payments on one of our two cars, but it is almost $300 a month, and there is still at least three years left on it I think.  We’ve [...]

HTML Tip – making URLs in comments

I’ve noticed that some commenters have been leaving multiple links in their comments, and that is fine, except I am seeing that they are not links, which is not going to help you get back links.
I don’t know if something is happening with my comment script (please let me know if this is the case), [...]

Bug season

I think the Kiddo brought home a cold, and it’s trying to invade my space.
*shakes fist*  Go away!  I don’t want you here days before a holiday!!
So I’m sitting here consuming a huge glass of orange juice and took two vitamin C pills.
I hope it goes away… I don’t want to be miserable for Thanksgiving!

Making extra money

I will admit it – we are credit card junkies, although we have gotten better about how many cards we carry balances on.  But at the same time, I always find myself trying to figure out ways to make a little extra money on the side so we can start paying down those vicious balances [...]

Pushing Daisies – say it isn’t so!!

I just heard from my husband that the show, Pushing Daisies, will probably be cancelled.
NOOOOOOOooooooOooOOoOooOoo!!!
WTF, man?  It seems like the networks always, ALWAYS are canceling the interesting shows and keeping the crap, unless an interesting show is really super uber popular (a’la Heroes).  We both swear the network execs must smoke crack daily to make [...]

Nifty Gmail themes

Google is rolling out cool new themes for Gmail.
You will have to log out and log back in, but only if your current layout of Gmail tweaks just ever so slightly… If it looks different to you and you can’t quite put your finger on it (the normal blue color changes just a bit), but [...]

That lingering scent…

Why is it that every time I go to Subway for lunch, I can still smell the place on my clothes hours later? And while the smell inside the store is nice (mmm… fresh bread!), the after-smell doesn’t smell so great? (it’s like a sour bread-going-bad smell)
It’s like walking into a restaurant or bar that allows [...]