Survey Says
by patndoris on Dec.27, 2008, under Frugal, Surveys
Most are not worth the time! In January 2007, I wrote about survey sites I thought were worthwhile. (Yes, I know, I was thinking again…very dangerous. But it was my very first blog post and I had to have something to write about.) At the time, I didn’t have a website, hadn’t learned to play canasta (at the moment I?m relatively sure there is one reader who wishes I never had) and wasn’t studying malware removal. I had time to sort through hundreds of emails per week and the time to take all kinds of surveys netting me absolutely nothing. Times have changed! I don’t have that kind of free time to spare nowadays. My perception of "worthwhile" survey sites has changed dramatically.
Updating the Archives
by patndoris on Dec.24, 2008, under Musings, My Philosophy
I don’t really see the point in having old blog posts hanging around for years upon years…collecting virtual dust, entombed in the sarcophagus of my sidebar archives. Mummified entries are just Yankee Doodle Dandy, but only if tomb raiders haven’t stolen the gems of wit and insight (uh…that means they need to be of value). Sure, sure, they provide a history of one’s own personal growth and evolution in blogging - a snapshot in time of oddball thoughts and weird things found interesting. But it’s not sufficient reason for me (and that’s just me…my opinion…not to be construed as a dig at anyone else and their personal preferences so don’t send me any hate mail) to keep years worth of old posts hanging around.
Immortal Internet?
by patndoris on Dec.16, 2008, under Websites, Musings
If you’re like me, you think of the internet as more or less immortal. It’s this great invisible being (like the supercomputer Deep Thought in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy that churns on thinking for 7-1/2 million years) that exist forever, and it’s content will never be lost. Ah, but how far from the truth it is. Sure we have sites like Wayback Machine (which I rarely have luck with due to robots.txt files blocking the request) but what do you do when a site you depend on to be there is just suddenly POOF! Gulp! And double GULP! GONE?
Top this for a Speeding Ticket
by patndoris on Dec.13, 2008, under Jokes
Another great story from my "email archives". Once again - I have no idea where it originates, so I take no credit for it. This has to be one of my favorites!
All I Want for Xmas is a Wireless N Gigabit Router
by patndoris on Dec.11, 2008, under Computers
…and a Wireless N Dual Band USB adapter for the laptop. And since I’m a bit of a bah humbug, and more than a little impatient - when my wireless adapter cut out on me again last night I decided it was time to take preventative measures. (I might ought to mention I got the wireless back with a quick search for new hardware and a reboot - but that’s not the point! It could go at any time and not come back.)
Amazingly Addictive Auditorium Game
by patndoris on Dec.08, 2008, under Websites, Science?
There’s that initial repetition of a vowel sound again. But that’s definitely not the introduction to a new word game. Quite the contrary! I?m sleepily struggling to accurately describe Auditorium. It’s a game of skill (I do believe I should have paid more attention in physics in high school though) and it’s an amazing audio-visual treat (if you manage to play it correctly that is!) The simplicity and yet the complexity of this (based on particle math) puzzle game fascinates me. Even the now fourteen year old male offspring took a crack at it! (That’s amazing in and of itself considering he doesn’t like any game I think is worth playing.)
An Interesting Timewaster: Plug Into Now
by patndoris on Dec.06, 2008, under Websites
I seem to have a real talent for finding sites dedicated (or seemingly so) totally to wasting time. (I should know, I spend enough of my time just surfing around wasting time.) But you know what I mean, sites where one click leads to another…and another… By now you’ve most undoubtedly guessed it! I’ve stumbled upon a new one called…(funny how I insert the link here that makes you open the actual post to find out isn’t it?)…
beta.sling.com
by patndoris on Dec.01, 2008, under Computers, TV/Movies
So I stumble on yet another nice site for watching free TV on the internet. Surprised? I’m quite sure you’re not. I seem to have quite a collection of them going at the moment. (And, ummm, not enough time to really watch any of them.) Sling.com is still beta, but I’m reasonably impressed. Easy sign up, quality is great, good selection of TV shows and movies, and my 14 year old male offspring can even watch clips of his beloved WWE wrestling (which I despise).
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