Wed 12/31/2008 10:26 AM
I have so much to blog about but still so little time! For now, here's the rundown of what I got for Christmas (in roughly the order I opened them)...
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Tue 12/23/2008 9:40 PM
I talk about Chris a lot, but I haven't ever told you all that much about him. So how about I borrow this hubby meme from Tina?
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Mon 12/22/2008 4:54 PM
Christmas is almost here, and things are getting busy, so I may not be able to post as regularly over the next week or so (you already saw evidence of this last week). And I'm sorry that all of my entries as of late have just been personal updates and not thought-provoking spoutings of my unpopular opinions...
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Thu 12/18/2008 3:47 PM
If Santa could bring me a new knee this Christmas, I wouldn't ask for anything else. My right knee decided two weeks ago, for no good reason, that it hates me...
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Wed 12/17/2008 6:46 PM
I know I haven't written anything yet this week. I've been too busy designing and sending out our Christmas e-card, writing out the few snail mail cards I'm sending this year, and decorating our pathetic little Christmas tree...
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Fri 12/12/2008 3:59 PM
Just four days ago the temperatures here with wind chill factored in were in the single digits. Then on Wednesday and again today it got up to sixty degrees...
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Thu 12/11/2008 3:46 PM
Sorry to bore you with another meme (yeah right, according to my stats you love them!). Angela at mommy bytes combined an e-mail meme with similar questions she found on four other blogs into a massive four things meme...
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Wed 12/10/2008 2:51 PM
Since I can't afford to buy gifts for everyone in my family this Christmas, I've decided I will at least send a Christmas bouquet or centerpiece to my Mom's house. Or maybe a Christmas gift basket from 1-800-Flowers...
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Tue 12/09/2008 11:34 AM
I'm playing along with Tina at mummifiedtimesfive.net; here's a list of 100 things, with the ones I have done in bold. Feel free to grab the list and play along, and don't forget to post a link back here...
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Mon 12/08/2008 11:49 AM
This is the weather conditions when I got to work this morning. It's FREAKING COLD...
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Fri 12/05/2008 1:27 PM
I had quite the crappy night last night. It started out all right... right after work we went over to our favorite hangout and ate dinner...
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Thu 12/04/2008 1:32 PM
If you have an avid reader on your list this holiday season, here's a gift idea. BookSwim is an online book rental service... essentially, it's Netflix for books...
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Wed 12/03/2008 4:00 PM
I'm happy to report that I am out of my anti-Christmas funk. We're still not going to have a tree this year, but I plan to put up all of our other decorations and make the place as Christmasy as I can...
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Tue 12/02/2008 11:57 AM
I feel a week of rants coming on. Today it's about digital rights management, otherwise known as DRM...
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Mon 12/01/2008 1:27 PM
I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving (or just a great four-day break from me, if you're not in the US). I can't believe November is over already...
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Wed 11/26/2008 3:26 PM
Sorry for two contest posts in a week, but I had to enter this one. John Chow is hosting a $6,000 cash giveaway sponsored by tiny URL service XR.com!
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Tue 11/25/2008 4:08 PM
Some bloggers like to include a stock photo in each of their posts relating to the content of the post. I personally feel that doing so in each and every post is too repetitive...
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Mon 11/24/2008 2:19 PM
It's been a while since I participated in a blog giveaway. This one is to celebrate the first anniversary of That Blozzz...
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Fri 11/21/2008 2:36 PM
Well okay, I'm starting to feel the Christmas spirit just a little bit...
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Thu 11/20/2008 4:03 PM
Since I'm short on post ideas, I thought I'd do a quick run-down of the highlights of the past week (not guaranteed to be interesting, amusing, or otherwise worth reading). I've used my Twitter stream to jog my memory...
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Wed 11/19/2008 11:33 AM
For some reason all the stores seem to be starting the Black Friday madness early this year. Instead of reducing prices for Christmas shopping starting the day after Thanksgiving, many of them started as early as the first of November.
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Tue 11/18/2008 11:35 AM
My eye exam yesterday confirmed my suspicions. I don't have a severe vision problem; no nearsightedness or farsightedness. But I do have astigmatism...
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Mon 11/17/2008 12:39 PM
Am I turning into Scrooge in my old age? Or am I having a tougher case of depression than usual this winter? Or is it just too early?
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Thu 11/13/2008 1:23 PM
While creating a Facebook group to promote my new home business opportunity, I noticed a group titled "Petition Against Facebook Charging a $2.99 Monthly Fee". First of all, as this is the first I've heard about any kind of monthly fee for Facebook, I doubt this $2.99 fee is anything more than a silly rumor...
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Wed 11/12/2008 11:44 AM
Annoying phone calls are a fact of life, it seems. The creation of the national Do Not Call database here in the US does not seem to have made one bit of a difference...
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Tue 11/11/2008 10:23 PM
Next Monday I am going to see Chris' friend Jeff the eye doctor. I've been struggling with really bad migraines for several weeks now, and something tells me it's vision-related...
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Mon 11/10/2008 4:31 PM
My latest time-waster game obsession is Diner Dash: Seasonal Snack Pack. I'm a huge fan of all of the Diner Dash games, and this one is no exception...
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Fri 11/07/2008 8:40 PM
With all of my computer problems last month I never got around to posting my September online earnings, or setting a goal for October. My goal for September, if you'll remember, was $45...
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Thu 11/06/2008 11:50 AM
It's very rare that I post anything political here. That said, I cannot believe that even now, with the election over, people are still spouting the same, tired, false information about Barack Obama that has been disproven time and time again...
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Wed 11/05/2008 1:22 PM
When we received our invitation to a Halloween costume party last month, I had no clue what to dress up as. When I was young my mom would usually make my costume, or piece it together from items bought at thrift stores...
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Tue 11/04/2008 4:44 PM
I took a couple of vacation days and turned this past weekend into a four-day one. It was great to have a couple of much needed extra days off, but I still did not want to go to work this morning...
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Thu 10/30/2008 4:59 PM
As my regular readers know, I've been without a computer at home for three weeks. But the symptoms actually began at least a month earlier - symptoms which I mistakenly attributed to overheating at the time...
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Tue 10/28/2008 3:56 PM
Super big thank-yous to Grandy for hitting me back with the Super Blogger award! I'll pass this one on to a few of my reads which may have gotten overlooked last week...
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Mon 10/27/2008 3:52 PM
I did it. I applied color to my hair for the first time ever in my life. Yes, it was just spray-in color and I washed it out as soon as I got home from the Halloween party...
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Thu 10/23/2008 10:49 AM
If you're a geek like me, you probably know about the popular tech/gadget blogs like Engadget and Gizmodo. The problem with those sites is that they post every piece of tech news that comes along, which results in tons of posts per day...
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Wed 10/22/2008 3:06 PM
Tina from MummifiedTimesFive has given me the "I Love Your Blog" award! Thank you, Tina! The rules say that I'm supposed to pass the award on to seven blogs that I love, so in no particular order, here they are...
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Mon 10/20/2008 4:04 PM
My poor, sick computer developed a new symptom late last week: it started repeatedly powering itself on. We had plugged it back in after Chris tried applying new heatsink compound to the CPU aong with a few other tweaks, to see if any of it had made a difference...
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Fri 10/17/2008 10:52 AM
Chris and I have come up with a great costume idea for a Halloween party we're attending next weekend. And no, I'm not revealing what it is - you'll have to wait for the photos...
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Mon 10/13/2008 5:31 PM
Friday evening after work I turned on my home computer to do a few things. Shortly after booting up, it shut itself down, never to turn on again. We think it was the motherboard that gave up the ghost. Fortunately...
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Thu 10/09/2008 10:36 AM
We took this photo of our friends John and Joy at the Rose & Crown Pub in Disney's Epcot during our trip last year. Though both from Rhode Island, they have lived in Florida since college...
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Wed 10/08/2008 9:50 AM
I finally got Vixen on video growling at the squeaky football. It wasn't as funny as the first time when her growls were turning into whines of frustration, but I think it's still pretty darn cute...
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Tue 10/07/2008 1:46 PM
Congratulations to Barbara Baker, winner of the Gopher III pick up tool! Your prize will be mailed by the end of this week...
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Mon 10/06/2008 2:24 PM
The truth is, most people go to work sick because their employers give them no other choice. Most of us can't afford to lose any of our pay...
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Fri 10/03/2008 2:15 PM
Does no one want this Gopher III reacher? The giveaway ends at midnight tonight, and so far there's only one comment and I'm not even sure if that comment was intended as an official entry...
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Thu 10/02/2008 3:04 PM
I couldn't decide what to post about today, until Angela at mommy bytes reminded me that it was time to go pink for October! I've turned the sidebar section headers pink in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month...
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Wed 10/01/2008 12:04 PM
Today is Vixen's first birthday! It's hard to believe she's a year old already, especially since she's only been with us for eight months...
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Tue 09/30/2008 12:26 PM
I'm a big fan of VistaPrint. I got some business cards and refrigerator magnets from them back when I had my attempted eBay business, and they were surprisingly good quality for the price I paid...
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Mon 09/29/2008 4:55 PM
Don't get me wrong; there are parts of my current job that I do enjoy doing. Bookkeeping, accounting and other work with numbers does actually relax me...
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Fri 09/26/2008 3:05 PM
I recently had the opportunity to get ahold of a Gopher III reach tool for fairly cheap, so I decided to try it out. Alas, as I had feared, I don't have enough squeeze strength in my hands to operate it...
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Thu 09/25/2008 2:37 PM
Check out this video of Kyle aka "0nehandedbandit" from AbleGamers playing Guitar Hero, on the hard difficulty level, with one hand (and one foot)...
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Wed 09/24/2008 9:32 AM
I'm so relieved to report that I've finally made some headway on my Christmas shopping. I've bought a couple of things and stored a few ideas for later purchase. And I think I just found my niece Breana's gift...
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Tue 09/23/2008 2:44 PM
I know you all know by now how much I love my iPhone. I've been on a quest since the beginning to find a protective case for it in my favorite color: purple. I had a silicone skin, which was supposedly purple but in reality was more pink...
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Mon 09/22/2008 12:04 PM
I've been having a problem with my home computer for a while, where many of my startup applications would fail to create an icon on the system tray in Windows XP upon initial boot-up. Logging off and back on to my user account would fix the problem, and since my computer stayed on most of the time I didn't have to deal with it often, so I just let it be...
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Fri 09/19/2008 10:06 PM
Food and a nap finally brought some relief, and then I was stuck in that state I get into far too often when I haven't been feeling well: too awake to sleep, but too tired to really get up and do anything. When that happens to me I like to plop myself in front of my computer and play these fun little time waster games, like the one I played today..
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Thu 09/18/2008 1:21 PM
Poor Chris has had a rough couple of weeks. Two weekends ago he started having some really bad back pain. By Friday he hadn't had much relief so he decided to go see a chiropractor for the first time ever...
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Wed 09/17/2008 3:11 PM
Something I'm quickly finding out as I explore affiliate marketing as a way to make money online is that I am not a natural born salesperson like some people are. Some people, like Chris, seem to have a salesperson gene...
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Tue 09/16/2008 3:03 PM
We were eating dinner at the bar at Dave & Buster's last night during the start of the Monday Night Football game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Dallas Cowboys. When pop singer Kat DeLuna began her rendition of the national anthem, the sound box was turned down very low, so I wasn't sure if I was hearing what I thought I was hearing...
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Tue 09/16/2008 12:01 PM
Here it is, our brand new set of wheels! Okay, not brand new... instead of the 2008 model we went with a slightly used 2007 Altima, which made it a lot easier to get down to the payment we wanted, especially since the dealership that had this one gave us $2,200 more for the trade-in than the first place was willing to give...
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Mon 09/15/2008 1:46 PM
I haven't done any silly posts in a while, and I could use some silliness in my life right now, so I'm borrowing this A-Z meme from Krississippi...
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Fri 09/12/2008 3:34 PM
Every year I have a round of two or three sinus infections in a row. Usually I get the first one in mid-to-late November, right before Thanksgiving...
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Thu 09/11/2008 4:42 PM
Well, Chris may be giving up his big manly vehicle. He wanted a Pathfinder for so long and was so enamored with it when he got it that I didn't think he'd ever consider going back to a "girly car"...
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Wed 09/10/2008 2:00 PM
One of the secrets of affilate marketing is to register domain names and build niche web sites around the products you want to promote. Now I love my web host, even though they're not the cheapest in the world. The excellent service and support they provide is well worth the extra money, and it would take a serious problem to get me to move confoozled.com to another host...
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Wed 09/10/2008 12:14 PM
Since a fourteen-day free trial is apparently only really thirteen days long, and the aforementioned drop shipping network decided to charge me for a month's membership on the morning of the fourteenth day before their customer service lines were even open, I am trying one last strategy on eBay to try and earn my $50 back...
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Tue 09/09/2008 3:27 PM
Wit's Bitch thinks she might have a hairball, and I think I can relate! I coughed up a hairball myself the other night. Well okay, it wasn't so much a hairball as just a single long strand of hair (probably my own)...
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Mon 09/08/2008 9:10 PM
According to Feedburner I have about thirty-one subscribers to my feed in addition to the seventeen e-mail subscribers. When I looked at those two numbers together I was actually pretty surprised...
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Thu 09/04/2008 7:23 PM
A few years ago, before I was employed, I tried to start a business selling products on eBay. I signed up as a student of the Disabled Online Users Association, a non-profit organization which aims to help people with disabilities learn to operate successful online businesses, with a main focus on eBay...
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Wed 09/03/2008 6:48 PM
Yesterday I was contacted by a promoter representing the Chicago band Liquor Boxx who asked if I would consider featuring the band on confoozled.com. After listening to a few tracks I was more than happy to oblige...
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Tue 09/02/2008 2:13 PM
The August online income total is in, and this time I well exceeded the $15 goal. For the month of August I earned $75.81...
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Fri 08/29/2008 3:59 PM
Like I mentioned before, August is usually when I start my Christmas shopping. Since I have to ship most of my gifts across the country, I like to be done with my purchases by Thanksgiving...
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Wed 08/27/2008 1:03 PM
Remember how I mentioned that I'm always cold, but if I turn up the thermostat even one degree, I get hot? Not to mention how annoying it must be to others that I'm constantly changing the temperature on them...
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Tue 08/26/2008 7:47 PM
Unique Blog Designs is celebrating its one-year anniversary, and giving away an iPod Touch along with a brand new 'citrus' theme for Wordpress blogs, in three flavors! Commenting on the contest post is good for one entry, and blogging about the contest with a link back is worth another five...
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Tue 08/26/2008 7:08 PM
A few hours ago I learned that my brother was a passenger in a bad car accident last night. There was one fatality and another is in critical condition...
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Mon 08/25/2008 4:42 PM
According to human rights organizations, more than 200,000 US school children were spanked or paddled in school in the past year. And a disproportionately high number of these kids were students with physical or mental disabilities...
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Fri 08/22/2008 2:45 PM
The teddy bear has already been ordered for shipment directly to the winner, and the Entrecard credits have been sent. The rest of the physical prizes are in my possession and will be mailed early next week after I pick up some shipping supplies...
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Fri 08/22/2008 11:21 AM
I don't normally stir up controversy but on this I just have to speak up. Sparked by the use of a particular word in the movie Tropic Thunder, there has been a campaign making its way through the web to get people to pledge to "stop using the r-word"...
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Thu 08/21/2008 10:16 AM
confoozled.com's first contest has ended, and the winners have all been drawn and notified. In the event anyone declines their prize, a new winner may be drawn, so if you haven't received an e-mail from me don't give up just yet...
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Wed 08/20/2008 10:55 AM
As you know I've devoted almost all of my free time these past two months to finding as many ways as I can to make money online. There are all kinds of blogs out there on the subject, some with more helpful information than others, but one I've been following lately is John Cow (yes, that's John Cow, not John Chow)...
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Tue 08/19/2008 7:49 PM
And here's another reason for you bloggers and web site owners to sign up and install an ad region... If you are one of the first ten people to sign up through my affiliate link and keep your ad region up for thirty days, I will buy an ad on your site after the thirty days is up.
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Mon 08/18/2008 1:57 PM
For the last few weeks I've been dealing with this off-and-on stiff and painful neck. It started right about the time we went to see The Dark Knight, so at first I thought it was just from looking up at the big screen for so long...
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Mon 08/18/2008 11:54 AM
There's just over two days left to get your entries in to the confoozled.com 300th post goodie giveaway! If you've entered already but were planning on coming back to earn extra entries, make sure you do so before midnight Eastern Wednesday night...
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Fri 08/15/2008 2:12 PM
It's time for the 2008 Alzheimer's Memory Walk! Walks are being held in more than six hundred communities across the United States this fall, with over 200,000 participants, to raise money for Alzheimer's research...
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Fri 08/15/2008 12:04 PM
For as long as I can remember I've been one of those people who is always cold. In the winter it doesn't matter how many layers I'm wrapped up in - without an external heat source (i.e. a heater, my microwaveable polar bear, or another warm body), I'm freezing...
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Thu 08/14/2008 2:19 PM
I think the reason for the low number is that I spent most of July tweaking my site design and trying to get it ready for monetization, as well as trying to increase traffic. As a result I spent less time doing things that would actually make me money...
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Wed 08/13/2008 4:37 PM
For those of you with kids in school, one of these label makers could be helpful with those back-to-school preparations as well. You could use it to label what belongs to who, if you have bought the same school supplies for more than one child (or you just don't want their classmates swiping their stuff!)...
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Tue 08/12/2008 12:49 PM
Today Brooskey turns one year old. Yesterday he got a birthday card in the mail, actually addressed to him, from the company that supplies our pet insurance...
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Mon 08/11/2008 4:26 PM
So, consider this a review of the tools available specifically for Movable Type users on the iPhone. Unfortunately, there aren't many, and the ones that do exist are rather inadequate, at least for my needs...
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Thu 08/07/2008 3:09 PM
One of the things I've been doing to promote the contest is submitting it to as many contest blogs as I can find. One such site is Contest Blogger...
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Wed 08/06/2008 5:51 PM
This is it! The official 300th post, and as promised, confoozled.com's first ever blog contest! Now, don't be put off by my calling it a blog contest - you do not have to have a blog to enter, and most of the prizes can be enjoyed by bloggers and non-bloggers alike...
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Tue 08/05/2008 2:58 PM
If you can possibly spare any amount, no matter how small, to help Len's kitty get the care she needs, please donate through PayPal. Gata, Len, and all of us who love them, would be forever grateful...
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Mon 08/04/2008 12:48 PM
Of course we weren't going to let a little weather ruin our day. Our seats and clothes all dried eventually, and when the sun came out afterwards I actually needed my sunglasses...
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Fri 08/01/2008 11:57 AM
As you can see, it's hard to catch Vixen in any one place for too long. In the last scene, it's hard to see, but that's a laser pointer Brooskey is chasing up and down the hallway - otherwise known as the "red bug"...
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Thu 07/31/2008 9:34 PM
Here in Rhode Island, paratransit service comes with a lot of rules. You must schedule your ride at least a day in advance - no spontaneously deciding you want to go somewhere... yet this is considered equivalent to regular public transit...
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Wed 07/30/2008 8:22 PM
The 300th post goodie giveaway is just days away - really, this is post #295! I've gathered up a few prizes, and Lincoln at Canucklehead has been kind enough to donate one as well...
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Tue 07/29/2008 9:27 AM
Lo and behold, I find out that Enkay Blog along with Market Leverage is holding a contest in which one of the prizes is an Asus EEE PC laptop! You can also win a $50 AmEx gift card or one of three USB pen drives...
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Thu 07/24/2008 12:53 PM
I finally managed to grab the fireworks photos off of Chris' iPhone from the night of the Fourth out on Mr. Ping's boat. I have to say, for having been taken with a camera phone with no fancy settings available, they are some pretty decent fireworks shots...
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Wed 07/23/2008 7:54 PM
There's another new addition to the sidebar - this one is down a ways, where the two columns become one. It's my new tip jar, courtesy of ScratchBack...
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Wed 07/23/2008 6:12 PM
The number and type of disabled dolls available is increasing, and I and others think it's fantastic. But there are some people who don't feel the same way...
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Tue 07/22/2008 8:35 PM
Is it ever ethical to use such a thing? Maybe to track your own vehicle in case of theft, and maybe to track company-owned vehicles driven by employees, though I have mixed feelings on that...
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Mon 07/21/2008 5:39 PM
The basic concept is that you check in with Brightkite wherever you go, and you can see both who has been there in the past and who, if anyone, is there right now. Then you have the opportunity to post messages and photos and communicate with other Brightkite members near you...
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Thu 07/17/2008 10:11 PM
Instead of the name given to me by my parents before they even knew me, I used the name I chose for myself to represent me on the internet. I think a name one chooses for oneself tells a lot more about a person than a name given to them.
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Wed 07/16/2008 8:54 PM
The most awaited feature of the iPhone 2.0 software was of course the App Store. I spent the weekend browsing the free applications and downloaded my share...
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Tue 07/15/2008 8:37 PM
Then Josh Blue took the stage, and it was non-stop roaring laughter from that point on. Our faces literally hurt by the time it was over...
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Mon 07/14/2008 5:40 PM
My next door neighbor's battle with pancreatic cancer ended early Saturday morning. She was fifty-nine...
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Fri 07/11/2008 4:54 PM
Thankfully, another week is over. I'm not completely caught up at work from my vacation last week, but I'm getting there. I'd probably be further along if I hadn't spent half of this week undoing everything the oh-so-helpful temp did in my absence...
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Thu 07/10/2008 6:24 PM
I found out today that Google has released the Browser Sync code to the open source community. What this means is that anyone can now get their hands on the source code and improve upon it...
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Wed 07/09/2008 6:32 PM
confoozled.com is approaching its 300th entry (by summer's end if I keep going at the rate I am), and to celebrate I plan to host my first blog contest for that 300th post. I promise I will find something cool to give away by then, but I'd also really appreciate some prize donations from my fellow bloggers out there...
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Tue 07/08/2008 8:54 PM
DisabilityNation recently reported that according to a survey, one in five gamers is disabled. You can count me as one of them...
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Mon 07/07/2008 8:25 PM
You can rest assured that I will never be one of those women who lies about her age. I will always be exactly the age I say I am, unless of course I get senile and lose count...
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Thu 07/03/2008 9:15 AM
Well, here it is, the final linkworthy roundup before I start posting these things individually as I find them...
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Wed 07/02/2008 7:37 PM
The more my existing readers help to promote my articles, and the more places in which they do so, the more potential there is for more people to discover my blog and keep coming back. And the more traffic I get, the more likely I am to sell higher paying ads on the site....
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Wed 07/02/2008 9:51 AM
We spoke, and Netflix listened. After thousands of customers pledged to reduce, suspend, or outright cancel their membership plans if the company went through with their decision to remove the profiles feature from their site, Netflix has reversed their decision and profiles are here to stay...
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Tue 07/01/2008 5:16 PM
As outside-of-home, work-for-the-man type jobs go, mine is not bad. But do I love it? Is it what I want to do for the rest of my life? No way. I want freedom...
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Wed 06/25/2008 5:46 PM
If I keep entering these contests, maybe I'll win one someday... :oP This time, contest blog Blog Paradise is collaborating with Contest Whiz, another blog full of contests, to bring you the Whiz Your Way to Paradise Contest!
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Mon 06/23/2008 5:22 PM
I can't smell it either when I shove my nose into it. It's just this whiff I catch every so often when I'm wearing it...
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Fri 06/20/2008 6:11 PM
Maybe you've forgotten, Netflix, but you have competition now. Being that some of your competitors already have an edge over you (in-store returns and exchanges at Blockbuster, anyone?), you need to make sure you have something the others don't...
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Thu 06/19/2008 8:36 PM
John Chow dot Com is having another great giveaway. This time the prize is a bag of goodies from Market Leverage worth over $500...
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Tue 06/17/2008 5:46 PM
One nice thing about one's birthday being a federal holiday is that it only costs four vacation days to take the week off (unless it falls on a Saturday, of course... then I get screwed). I don't know what I'm going to do that week, yet...
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Sun 06/15/2008 7:41 PM
Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there. Here's the latest roundup of interesting items from the blogosphere...
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Tue 06/10/2008 12:36 PM
We talked for a few hours, and had a ton of things in common. And then, that's when the part of the conversation happened that made my jaw hit the floor...
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Wed 06/04/2008 7:39 PM
The last time I wrote about LifeLock, there was a comment left on the post regarding a lawsuit against the company for illegally placing fraud alerts and failing to honor their million dollar guarantee. I asked the commenter if he had any links with more information, and he never came and backed up his comments...
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Tue 06/03/2008 8:07 PM
Yesterday when I posted the quiz scores, I didn't mention anything about prizes because I had a dilemma: two first place winners, and only one prize to give away. So I needed more time to figure out what to do about that...
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Mon 06/02/2008 5:57 PM
I averaged the scores for the two parts, and then added bonus points for anyone who got the last two questions right. Those questions were by far the hardest, since they dealt with my political opinions, which I do not often discuss publicly...
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Sat 05/31/2008 12:07 PM
If you are subscribed to e-mail notifications for confoozled.com, you probably just received an e-mail for a 45-day-old entry. It confused me just as much as I'm sure it confused you. Here's what happened...
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Wed 05/28/2008 9:07 PM
No, Chris and I are not in the videos because we were the ones shooting them. But I assure you, we were right in there with all the rest of the drunks...
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Tue 05/27/2008 8:45 PM
The whole weekend was a nice little mini-vacation, and the first time in a long time that I've felt like I've had a real break. I think I can handle a month of work...
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Thu 05/22/2008 1:23 PM
I love Gmail, but a lot of the complaints I hear about it are from people unhappy with the color scheme and the inability to change it without adding third-party extensions to one's web browser. That may be about to change...
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Wed 05/21/2008 9:41 PM
But for those of you who need a new phone and can't afford the initial expense of an iPhone, there are cheap and even free AT&T cell phones. Or for Sprint users, how about a free Samsung Instinct?
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Tue 05/20/2008 6:48 PM
I hate to just take a vacation with no plans of any type, because we'll just end up wasting the vacation days sitting at home doing nothing. So what I'd really like is to have someone come visit me...
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Sat 05/17/2008 9:40 PM
I found a way around the thumbnail issue, but I'm going to have to start giving my blog posts longer, more descriptive titles here on the site since I no longer have the option of assigning a different title for the feed. Maybe it's just as well, as I have become rather uncreative with my two-word titles as of late, and the alliterations were getting old...
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Sat 05/17/2008 12:15 PM
Today I will be upgrading the software that powers confoozled.com. Comments and trackbacks will be unavailable during the upgrade process, and you may see some errors on the site as I work to test everything and get it all working...
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Thu 05/15/2008 6:55 PM
What are some simple things that satisfy you? Here are some of mine...
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Wed 05/14/2008 8:29 PM
Here are some recent posts from other blogs which have caught my eye. Gee, judging from my comments below, I think I'm in a bad mood...
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Mon 05/12/2008 8:07 PM
Just a few observations on the iPhone so far. My only complaints, aside from missing features which will hopefully be enabled in future software updates, have to do with the on-screen keyboard...
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Fri 05/09/2008 8:04 PM
But, these are large, obnoxious ads that layer on top of your blog, forcing your visitor to either click the close button or wait for the ad to time out. Then, it places a big ugly frame at the bottom of the window...
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Thu 05/08/2008 5:16 PM
My family and close friends should do really well on this (you'd better!), but I think even those random readers just passing through can do a decent job with some research and a few educated guesses...
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Tue 05/06/2008 8:58 PM
Design is very much a matter of personal taste, and just because one designer thinks things should be done a certain way does not mean that's the only way to do it. And I would highly recommend that before he preaches a "rule" of design, he double checks whether it's something he does himself...
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Mon 05/05/2008 5:38 PM
AT&T has told me that the switch-over should take place next Monday. I was actually a little bit surprised that they didn't assign a temporary number just so I could receive calls in the meantime...
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Thu 05/01/2008 6:52 PM
At that time, I read all of the entries which appear on the feed... usually the last ten. If I end up skimming through or outright skipping more than half of them, then it comes right back off the list...
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Tue 04/29/2008 6:10 PM
Pay close attention when they send the family the video announcing that a sponsor has paid off their mortgage. That's the one they shot with us in the audience across the street from the house...
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Mon 04/28/2008 6:31 PM
Before long, Vixen had taken over the small dog side of the park, and was having a blast with all of the other dogs. She even found a Yorkie puppy about her size to chase around...
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Sat 04/26/2008 6:32 PM
Now, it may be semantics, but none of this actually prevents someone from stealing your identity. It only ensures that you will be alerted to it as quickly as possible, so that the steps can be taken to ensure that you won't be held financially responsible...
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Fri 04/25/2008 7:49 PM
I've found a lot of my old high school classmates recently, thanks mostly to Facebook. And that makes getting to those reunions seem a lot less important...
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Fri 04/25/2008 6:19 PM
All you have to do to enter, is have an Entrecard account, for starters... then post about the contest on your own blog, and leave him a trackback or a comment linking to your post. The winner will be randomly drawn at the end of this month...
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Wed 04/23/2008 8:06 PM
Does anyone actually get a list of locations upon entering your zip code? Or does everyone just get sent to the contact form? And if anyone has occasion to actually use their services, I'd love to hear about your experience...
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Wed 04/23/2008 6:32 PM
I did find some online at a food service supplier, but I'm hoping to find them in a slightly smaller quantity so that I don't have to spend quite so much money at one time. Or at the very least, somewhere local so that I don't have to pay for shipping...
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Tue 04/22/2008 9:12 PM
Even as I write these opening paragraphs, I still don't know what my eight facts are going to be. But I'm going to surf through others' responses, and hope that I get inspired...
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Tue 04/22/2008 6:51 PM
I'm not being paid to write this (only if you sign up!), and yes, it really does work. I've confirmed that my $25 was deposited to my bank account last week...
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Sun 04/20/2008 6:47 PM
It was an exhausting day for both of them, and they both passed out on the way home... Vixen fighting it the whole way by holding her head up as she slept...
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Sat 04/19/2008 6:50 PM
We're far better off continuing to buy our cartridges one set at a time from our office supply chain of choice. Never mind the fact that I have some strong opinions on the quality of generic inks and what they do to your printer...
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Wed 04/16/2008 3:04 PM
Calls are answered in the order in which they are received, they admonish, so hanging up and calling again will only further the delay...
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Fri 04/04/2008 3:37 PM
I decided to spare you all the attempt at an April Fools post, mainly because I couldn't think of anything good. I did get my mom and sisters, though, with a subtle e-mail asking what they liked for girl and boy names...
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Fri 03/21/2008 1:14 PM
So now I will be on antibiotics for the next week, when I was going to be done tomorrow. But I can already feel them working, which is good...
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Fri 03/14/2008 6:04 PM
The two of them are getting along really well, though there are still a few arguments a day, but being that they are both very strong-willed, that may always be the case. Brooskey really loves to play with Vixen, but still hasn't quite figured out how much is too much for her...
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Thu 03/13/2008 6:48 PM
Here are some more of my recent favorites from the rest of the web...
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Fri 03/07/2008 6:38 PM
In this day of rapid written communication, i.e. text messaging and internet chatting, replacing spoken conversation, I'll concede that spelling may not be as important in these media, as long as your point gets across...
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Tue 03/04/2008 6:57 PM
Just in case some of you were still concerned, my post the other day was entirely facetious...
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Mon 03/03/2008 6:30 PM
Another story of uncalled for school punishment, this one from Jane (aka Mamacita) at Scheiss Weekly...
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Thu 02/28/2008 6:45 PM
Whether everyone I've ever encountered in life is tone deaf, or this was just a cruel, cruel joke they all conspired to play on me for twenty-eight years, I don't know. But at least now I know the truth...
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Tue 02/26/2008 10:28 PM
It was toward the end of the shot that they panned past us, so it very well may get edited out when the episode airs, but you never know. It is expected to air sometime in May, and if I know ahead of time I will give everyone a heads up...
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Tue 02/19/2008 9:10 PM
I had some fun tonight, that is, before spilling my drink all over my computer desk, singing Avril Lavigne's Sk8er Boi on The Sims On Stage. Enjoy...
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Wed 02/13/2008 7:16 PM
With his gift I achieved my goal: to surprise him with something he'd never expect from me. I owe some credit to his best friend Joe for the idea...
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Tue 02/05/2008 7:27 PM
She's a little kissing machine and washes all three of our faces thoroughly every day. Her absolute favorite place to be is in my lap, and I'm more than happy to accommodate...
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Mon 01/28/2008 6:55 PM
Brooskey is maturing more every day and we look forward to all the fun we're going to have with him when he's full grown. And I'm already madly in love with this little girl, even before ever seeing her in person...
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Fri 01/18/2008 10:49 PM
What I discovered was that while I love all of her music and love singing along with her, her songs are actually very difficult to sing solo. This one was the only one I could bring myself to publish...
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Tue 01/15/2008 5:31 PM
A little while later we caught him in this pose, sitting there on the couch like a little old man with his arm on the armrest, dividing his attention between the TV and people-watching out the window...
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Fri 01/11/2008 6:30 PM
I'm having a lot of fun with it and have recorded several other songs already. As I do more I will try to share here every so often...
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Thu 01/10/2008 6:12 PM
This past year was quite the year for me. It brought some of the highest and some of the lowest points of my life so far...
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Tue 01/08/2008 9:23 PM
A little over an hour and it was done. So again, seems a little strange that a plain no-frills file manager had no trouble copying what a drive imaging product could not, but I just don't know where the fault really lies...
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