We-Care Thanks to Bill in New York for sending me information on a fun tool that might help get your holiday shopping done and give a little bit back to your favorite charities. We-Care (http://www.we-care.com/) is a collection of 700+ merchants. When you buy products from them through this site a portion of your purchase … Continue reading
Category Archives: Fun Stuff
Thanksgiving Quiz
It’s been a while – but here’s my kind of annual Thanksgiving quiz. Have a fantastic break! Thanks! Ann Thanksgiving Quiz How fast can wild turkeys fly? • They can’t • 15 mph • 35 mph • 55 mph About how many feathers does a mature turkey have? • 1, 500 • 3,500 • 5,500 … Continue reading
Where I’ve Been
Today’s Byte is just for fun. But first — a serious warning… I happened to check my debit card statement this month and found almost $700 in fraudulent charges. Someone had gone to town at gas stations in Georgia. Luckily half of the charges happened while we were flying home from Dublin so we should … Continue reading
Free Food Finds
Today’s Byte is just for fun. I’m back in the US and my birthday is coming up – so I’ve been happily getting emails from my favorite restaurants inviting me to come in for a free drink or desert. It got me thinking about the great ways to use the Internet for free food: Sign … Continue reading
MeetUp
MeetUp (http://www.meetup.com/) is a real social networking site. By that I mean you use MeetUp to get in contact with people near you with shared interests and you actually meet up with them. Not that I was getting lonely in Dublin or anything– but I joined a MeetUp called – New and Not So New … Continue reading
Anagrams & Wikipedia Ban
Today you get two Bytes in one. Both are really just nibbles. Wikipedia bans people and IP blocks I wanted to post an addition to a Wikipedia article (http://www.wikipedia.org the big collective online encyclopedia) but I’m blocked. Actually I am not personally blocked but another eircom customer in my area has ruined it for us … Continue reading
Google Trends
OK I’ll admit it’s Wednesday night, I’m on the road and I’m tired! So I checked out Google Labs again for a topic. Tonight I found Google Trends (http://www.google.com/trends). It does two fun things: It shows the top terms searched today (or any day). I think this is a great way to keep on top … Continue reading
Fun Web Sites
Today’s Byte is a little disjointed but I have come across some fun sites lately that I wanted to share: TechPresident http://www.techpresident.com/ Tracks how the Presidential candidates are doing online including how often they’re mentioned on blogs, the popularity of their YouTube videos and more. I wrote more about then in the Blandin on Broadband … Continue reading
2006 Annual Thanksgiving Quiz
1. According to a recent Cub survey (Cub is a grocery store chain in Minnesota), what is the favorite Thanksgiving side dish? Stuffing (at 36%) Potatoes 28% Pie 29% Green bean casserole 2. According to AllRecipes.com, which side dishes would people be happiest to live without? Green bean casserole 28.2% Gelatin (Jell-O) salad 51.4% Sweet … Continue reading
Google Earth – New Content
Today I tried out Google Earth (http://earth.google.com/). I shouldn’t have because it kept me distracted for too long, but it was really neat. (Google Earth is different from Google Maps http://maps.google.com/; I mention that because I’m hoping to research a new feature in Google Maps in the next two weeks and will mention it soon.) … Continue reading
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