Tobias Buckell author of Crystal Rain and Ragamuffin is giving away several review copies of his latest book Ragamuffin and his first book Crystal rain to individuals who are reviewers, bloggers or prominent members of large forums. If you want one just leave a comment on his announcement post.
I had a chance to read [...]
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Review Copies of Ragmuffin Available
June 29th, 2007 · No Comments
World War Z, Rocks Your Face Off
June 7th, 2007 · No Comments
I just finished World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks. Brooks does a wonderful job of telling numerous stories from various points of view spanning the entire war through the use of short excerpts as told by survivors in an Oral History Format. Let it be noted [...]
Advantage Rent a Car Customer Service, Fixes My Problem!
June 1st, 2007 · No Comments
Providing good customer service is so very simple yet many companies can’t seem to get it right for all the customers on the net. Recently I had a bad experience renting a car from Advantage in San Antonio, in reality it was a combination of bad things which led to a bad experience, if [...]
Tags: Customer Service · How To · Rant · Reviews
What Google Should Do Next
May 31st, 2007 · No Comments
Much of my web experience and blogging information comes to my through Google in one way or another. I currently use Google reader to pour through loads of RSS feeds, Gmail to handle my email, Google Adsense to monetize my writing, and Google Analytics to track my website statistics. While overall the experience [...]
Tags: Lifehacks · Reviews · Tech
Halo 3 Beta!
May 18th, 2007 · No Comments
I had a few minutes today to hop on the Halo 3 Beta. Wow, the Laser is freakin Awesome. I cannot describe how fun it is to hit someone who just popped up on a grav lift with the laser. The game still has a lot of learning for me and I need to look [...]
Star Wars: Attack of the Clone Images
January 23rd, 2007 · No Comments
A classmate of mine sent me a Link to his Brother-in-law’s science fiction drawings from the 1970’s side by side with scenes from George Lucas’s Star Wars. The resemblance is striking. I believe at some point in the past a settlement was offered but not taken. I have just a few examples [...]
Random Updates
December 19th, 2006 · No Comments
Several Happenings
I was recently interviewed for an article about racism in online gaming for a mass media publication. A link will be forthcoming. If you have any inquiries into the use of profanity or racism in online gaming please contact me for more information.
The Amplifier in my car is now broken so [...]
Tags: Caffiene · Customer Service · Deals · Misc. · Rant · Reviews · Tech
How to Find New Music
December 18th, 2006 · No Comments
This is an extremely busy week so this may be the last you hear from me until after Christmas, or quickly on Friday afternoon.
I am getting a new Mp3 player for Christmas, it is a Sansa e280R which works with Rhapsody to do some pretty cool things as far as discovering music. The two [...]
The Christmas Story That Made the President Cry
December 8th, 2006 · 1 Comment
Jason Stoddard has written a fantastic Christmas story which has been posted on futurustic. The ending is one you may not expect and this story really made my day. I have tried about 6 sentences to describe what this story represented to me but I cannot figure out how to describe it. the Story takes [...]
Palm OS impressions
November 12th, 2006 · No Comments
This past Friday I had the opportunity to work on someone’s Treo 700P for Verizon. The phone would not connect with the Bluetooth keyboard they purchased form Thinkoutside. After much wrangling and the need to install Hotsync on a spare computer I was able to download an application to Hotsync to the phone [...]
