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95% DVR Households Watch Live TV
2007-10-12 18:20:00 This wasn an interesting statistic both for the advertisers that DVR households still watch 95% of their TV live and interesting because these people have invested 2-400.00 in a new piece of technology that they only use 5% of the time. It hardly seems justifiable then. I am not sure I would buy one now, ... More About: Watch , Live , Americanism , Households , Holds
Hair Removal
2007-10-12 18:06:00 Ok, this is not a topic most people talk about publicly but it has been circling around the office here (oh yea the ygossip bout everything!) and so I am writing about what I am overhearing today. Apparently because I have blonde hair I don’t struggle with hair removal as much as some people do ... More About: Hair
Al Gore gets Nobel Peace Prize with the UN
2007-10-12 17:50:00 How cool is that? Al Gore has gone on to create quite the legacy for himself despite loosing the presidential elections in 2000. I think he has become more human and approchable than people ever thought he could be. I think his work with publicising the impending global warming problem has been one of the most ... More About: Peace , Nobel Peace Prize , Nobel
Home Makeover Shows
2007-10-12 17:40:00 I am a sucker for those Home and Garden Channel HGTV shows abotu home makeovers. I also get sucked in to Extreme Makeover Home Edition every week. There is something about seeing how an old home can look new again with some paint, new kitchens and new furniture that is exciting. I know I can’t ... More About: Martha , Americanism
Rebuilding Your Credit
2007-10-11 20:05:00 Crdit cards are so prevalent these days, they start pursuing kids when they are in High School to get them. The problem is that by the time someone gradates college they are most likley in debt both with school loans and the credit card companies. So at the ripe old age of 22 you have ... More About: Credit , Americanism
Advertising makes you less sensitive to price changes
2007-10-11 20:05:00 Ah, so now they find this out? A new study says that a lot of advertising bombardment of customers makes them less likely to be sensitive to price changes. I wondered why I could go buy the same things at the grocery store month after month and the cost seems to always be a little ... More About: Advertising , Price , Chang , Chan , Vert
Virtual Worlds Collide - War between Second Life and WoW?
2007-10-11 18:17:00 Ok it was a little beyond my reach that people would set up so much of a life in the virtual worlds of either World of Warcraft (of which I found out has dragons in the new Toyota Tundra commerical) and Second Life . I am about at the level of sims version 1998 myself so I ... More About: Second Life , Worlds , Virtual , Americanism
Makeover Site New Hairstyles
2007-10-10 23:42:00 This is so cheezy but we try it anyway right? You have seen those sites that take you picture and change the hairstyle to try out different colors and looks to see what hairdo you should have done with your hair at the salon right? I have and I think they are silly but fun ... More About: Site , Makeover , Hairstyles , Americanism
Facebook Apps and Social Networking
2007-10-10 06:03:00 I am not a huge fan of Facebook , I am more a MySpace person because well, I am getting older and it seems more primitive and understandable to me. But today through one of those many many email newsletters i get I saw there was a graphing social networks conference coming up. I immediately thought, ... More About: Social , Social Networking , Networking , Americanism
Email Marketing and Newsletters How To
2007-10-10 05:31:00 I am a huge fan of email marketing in general for it’s success in bringing in site traffic and conversions, but I am also a huge fan of email newsletters as a consumer. I subscribe to everything from google news alerts to newsletters about every service and site I use. I think they are just ... More About: Marketing , Email , Email Marketing , Newsletters
DVR Playbacks of TV Season Premier Week
2007-10-09 21:22:00 From the programming insider email today: DVR Playback - Week of Sept. 17: Based on ratings for the week of Sept. 17 (one week prior to the official start of the 2007-08 season), the season-premiere of CBS’ Survivor: China was the most recorded program of the week. According to the final Nielsen live plus 7-day ratings, Survivor: ... More About: Season , Americanism , Remi , Premier
SEO Search Engine Rank
2007-10-09 14:53:00 Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the practice of finding out what Google’s search algorithm highly values and finding a way to make those things happen for your site or your client’s site. This helps your site rank higher in the search engine result rankings. Why is this important? Why is SEO a booming ... More About: Links , Search , Rank , Search Engine
Google Video Ads
2007-10-09 14:42:00 I got an email this morning about the new Google Video Ads. I am not sure exactly how they work yet but they do say they you earn revenue for playing them on your site. I wonder if that means they auto play when someone loads the page or if someone has to click on ... More About: Google Video
Sports Trivia Game
2007-10-09 14:35:00 In every bar there is a Golden Tee Game and most likely some sports trivia game. The nation has always loved its sports and many people find watching sports is their main form of recreation as they get older. So if you got to come up with your own trivia questions for your own game ... More About: Sports , Trivia , Americanism , Ports
CTA Green Line Problems Again
2007-10-09 14:28:00 I recently wrote about the problems I experienced on the Green line of the CTA elevated trains. I had thought with the temporary funding increase from next year’s budget that they would be able to fix some cars and trains and minimize the delays we had all been experiencing, but I guess they are holding ... More About: Problems , Line , Americanism
Tequila Sunrise
2007-10-09 05:40:00 I have never really been much of a drinker, but some of my friends can be and they all have their favorite drinks. Some enjoy Martinis, others are really into wine and one in particular is a Tequila Sunrise fan. She is not ready to go out for the evening without a Tequila Sunrise to ... More About: Americanism
Bolingbrook, IL Red Light Speed Cameras - Tickets
2007-10-08 18:35:00 I just found out that there is a town in the Chicago suburbs (Bolingbrook, IL) that is ticketing people via camera for running red lights when they just don’t stop completely behind the white line at intersections or don’t stop completley behind the white line before making a right hand turn on a red light. You don’t know it’s happening ... More About: Tickets , Cameras , Light , Speed , Americanism
New Artist Music Videos
2007-10-08 15:28:00 In this MySpace world of word of mouth marketing it is important for new musicians trying to make it big to get on the internet and get networking. The internet is a way that so many new young musicians get discovered. It is searchable and people find music that specifically meets their taste needs. A ... More About: Videos , Music , Artist , Music Videos , Americanism
Chicago International Film Festival
2007-10-08 15:20:00 If you haven’t already bought tickets to the Chicago International Film Festival , now is the time to get them quick! The Festival started this past Thursday on October 4th and it goes for 2 weeks. They show interesting and unique films from all around the world that would otherwise not be released here. It is ... More About: Film Festival
Howard Miller Grandfather Clocks
2007-10-08 14:06:00 I was reading this blog about grandfather clocks today (yes I come across blogs on most anything these days) and was quite impressed with the styles and look of these Howard Miller grandfather clocks. I have seen old style grandfather clocks before but none like this. These were different and would fit in with most ... More About: Clocks , Grandfather , Fath
TopGear is Back! Season 10 starts of with a bang
2007-10-08 05:33:00 I was probably not the only american poised at my computer eagerly waiting for my friends on the other side of the pond to send me the first show of the new TopGear season this afternoon. It aired in the UK at 8pm their time and about an hour after the show ended I got ... More About: Season , Back , Bang
More great writing services
2007-10-07 20:59:00 I just thought of something else that I wanted to post about writing. I love to write, but it is clear to anyone who reads this blog that my grammar and language use isn’t perfect textbook style. In fact I don’t even own one of those writing manuals that tell you what the Chicago style ... More About: Family , Services , Writing , Great
Chicago Marathon Halted Due to Warm Hot Weather
2007-10-07 20:50:00 This is odd. Yes it is hot today in Chica go , but I never have seen the LaSalle Bank Chicago Mara thon get canceled or stopped due to weather concerns. I guess they figure that no one was anticipating this kind of hot humid weather when they trained for it over the past 6 months. Currently my ... More About: Weather
Master Papers Service for Writing Articles
2007-10-07 20:31:00 I am running across new sites and services on the internet every day. It seems that more businesses live in virtual internet world than in the brick and mortar one. This new one is a virtual writing shop for businesses that want to publish research or articles but don’t have the skilled staff or the ... More About: Writing , Articles , Service , Master , Papers
Disturbing Trend
2007-10-07 20:23:00 I have noticed this trend with cell phones for a few months now. People who have their phone on speaker and are listening to music in a public place or s conversation that seems like they aren’t participating at all in, just listening. It’s weird. First off they usually do this in some public place ... More About: Technology , Trend , Americanism , Bing
What does it mean to go Slow?
2007-10-05 22:32:00 Jimmy Buffet is the person who comes to mind first when I hear the term “go slow” combined with a lifestyle. He has exemplified that lifestyle with his music, hawaiian shirts, food, drinks and amphibious airplane as a method of transport. For the rest of us I think going slow is akin to slowing down. ... More About: Slow
Fantasy TV Watching?
2007-10-05 17:39:00 First there was fantasy football, then it spread to baseball and basketball. Now you can get most any sport to play a “fantasy” game where you choose players and use their real game stats to give your team points and stats by technological magic, and voila, you get an alternate reality that no one really ... More About: Fantasy , Watching
Scotland Vacation
2007-10-05 15:23:00 So, I am day-dreaming about vacationing again and my new fascination is with Scotland . It’s beautiful there. And there is this east scotland holiday cottage that I saw online that looks like a great place to go visit. Traveling there is easy, like any other part of the UK you need a passport but you ... More About: Family , Vacation
Social Networking Sites
2007-10-05 04:54:00 I have blogged about social networking sites that I use to keep up with friends, social networks that I have seen clients successfully advertise on and now I see that social networks are taking over the world. Well not litterally but sort of. Here is a map of where they are most popular by country. ... More About: Social , Social Networking , Networking , Sites , Workin
Anonymous Internet VPN
More articles from this author:2007-10-05 04:47:00 With all the information begin collected about you and your computer these days, it is a wonder why more people don’t try and surf the web anonymously? We know that Google archives everything you do and click on both for tracking their search results and for reporting to advertisers. We also know that any banner you ... More About: Internet , Anonymous , Anon 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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