Do One Nice Thing is a website link my mom sent me. Their lag line is, "Sometimes we're nice, Sometimes we're not." In checking it out I found a great page where each week they list a couple of "Nice Thing Ideas". For this week one of their suggestions is to send school supplies to Iraq and Afghanistan via US Soldiers. Each suggestion has very clear, simply instructions on how you can do this one nice thing. Maybe it will inspire you to do one extra nice thing for the world.
Web/Tech
June 05, 2009
September 23, 2008
July 28, 2008
Getting the most out of our TV
It's official, we have joined the world of Blu-ray. Last week Matt bought a Playstation 3 primarily because he wanted a Blu-ray player, but he also felt if he was going to spend that much money on a Blu-ray, he should spend a little bit more and get a PS3 out of it too. We haven't watched a movie yet, but our Netflix has been switched over so I'll post an update after we have seen what our TV and new Blu-ray can do. Matt seems pretty excited about finally getting full 1080p out of his TV, whatever that means. I have a feeling I won't notice the difference, but I thought the same thing about HD TV programing until we got it and discovered I was wrong.
July 14, 2008
Zbaby is born!
eZfolds are official! Christina's eZfolds (custom prefold cloth diapers) are now for sale on-line at her Zbaby website. If you or anyone you know uses cloth diapers or has an interest in them, please pass her website along. She is also a wealth of knowledge on the subject if anyone has questions.
June 06, 2008
Blahdiblog + Your Inbox
I figured it was time to review a feature I have on this blog that currently only Jacob uses. 
Located on the top right side is a place to sign up for FeedBlitz and what FeedBlitz does for you is it emails you when I post something new to this very blog. Those who obsessively check 3 times a day looking for a shred of entertainment probably don't need it, but for those of you who mean well, but often forget to check in, this may be your answer. In the email you will get the full post as well as a link to take you to it on Blahdiblog. This also works for those who can get to your email at work, but not to my blog. This is assuming that you are all that interested, but I figure if you are still reading this post, you must be, that or you are just really really bored.
May 06, 2008
April 23, 2008
April 15, 2008
revisiting my stats
I stopped paying attention to my stats for this blog because once I made it "private" instead of "public" it eliminates all of the really funny ways people reach your website via search engines. I previously posted some of those searches here and here. There are still some interesting features StatCounter offers even for private websites. Like this map of recent visitors...
Every single visitor either come directly to my blog, probably via their favorites, or they come over from Steven, Chris, Sue, Jenny, or Christina's blogs. Meaning most of my visitors also visit those blogs. They could be like me. I go to my own blog and use it as a starting point to link around to all the others until I've visited and read each one.
Another thing you can look at is who has visited and how often. It doesn't give names, but some of them I can figure out by location. Take this one as an example, Comcast-Attleboro tells me that's my mom. It shows me what days and what times she came to my site. Many I don't know, like someone in New York who uses a Mac and has AT&T. Some of them give you a company name which is fun to see who is visiting at work (on their lunch brake of course).
Well, this isn't as interesting as seeing that someone putting motivational speaker crayon handshake into a search engine reached my site, but interesting nonetheless. Maybe someday I'll open my blog back up to the public so we can laugh at all of the ridiculous searches people use.
I should also note since I'm babbling about stats that this blog now has 841 posts and 2,316 comments since the start back in June 2005. Looks like I need to start thinking about a 3 year anniversary post sooner than later.
Recent Comments