Hey cool!

October 9, 2007 · Posted in Blog · 3 Comments 

I had been whining yesterday about my horrid luck and lo and behold if it didn’t change. Not till I got home tonight but anyway…

I was surfing around the other night and found this site called “Take My Tech” ran by Jason Burns of Philoking.com. Basically what he does is he posts his tech stuff that he doesn’t need anymore and then, well here let me use his words:

* Leave a comment on the item you want.
* When the item reaches 100 comments it will be randomly given away to one of those readers!
* Emails will not be sold or used for other reasons
* one comment per item
* rude or profane comments will be deleted!

Anyway, the comments finally hit 100 for the backpack I had been coveting and when he did the drawing I won, woo hoo.

From what I understand he is counting on ad revenue to pay for shipping and running the site. Sounds like a pretty cool idea and I hope it works out for him, hey maybe he could even turn a profit if enough people hit the site! Go check it out, you really have nothing to lose!

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If only I had seen this 5 years ago!

September 13, 2006 · Posted in Blog · 1 Comment 

I found an article today that if I had seen it 5 years ago, well nothing would change. But I also wouldn’t have anything to write today! The article is on the How To Wiki and it is called “How to dissuade yourself from becoming a blogger” It is just chock full of information like:

Find five completely random blogs, and read them daily for a month. After thirty days, you will absolutely dread your self-imposed requirement to read all that dreck. Any blog you create will most likely be on par with what you’ve been reading. Don’t put anyone through that.

And of course who wouldn’t find this persuasive:

Ask yourself if you really have the time to commit to a blog. What about that tree house you wanted to build? Or the book you wanted to write? Or the car you wanted to fix up? Or the restaurant you wanted to take your wife to? Or the new career you wanted to pursue? Instead of writing about pretty much nothing, or whining about all the things you wish you were doing instead, start doing something that’d actually be worth writing about. And if it’s really worth writing about, you’ll be having too much fun doing it to tear yourself away from it.

For the most part I have always enjoyed the wiki but for some reason this article taints their credibility in my book!

Quotes are from the WikiHow.

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