Archive for January, 2008
Need some ‘Bug’ replacement parts? Here’s a useful website
Need some Bug parts? No, not the flying or crawling kind — the Volkswagen automotive kind.
The “BFY Obsolete Parts” website could be just the site you’re looking for if you’re hobby — or career — is restoring VWs and Porsches. In fact, they also have Transporter, and Karmann Ghia parts. One of the nice features [...]
You can do anything on the Internet, I guess, but watch out for those cables
In this incredibly high-tech world, it’s always good now and again to remember how vulnerable we are to “low-tech” glitches: Large sections of Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa were taken off the Internet by a speed-bump on the information super highway: Two undersea cables were cut or damaged.
I don’t know how often such [...]
Looking for a fun business investment? Let’s go smash some pennies
What a really fun idea if you’re looking for a business to invest in: Try one a penny machine. No, I don’t mean a machine that MAKES pennies. I mean a machine that SMASHES pennies. I’ll bet at one time or another you’ve seen one of those machines that lets you crank out an elongated [...]
Now that John Edwards is gone, what will happen to the Democratic race?
The Internet and the cable news people are all “abuzz and aflutter” with John Edwards getting ready to announce in New Orleans that he’s dropping out of the 2008 presidential race.
I have mixed feelings about this one. Edwards seems to be a competent, intelligent, likable guy. I think he had a minimal amount of liabilities [...]
If winter’s headed your way, why not take off for the beaches of Mexico?
I just heard a forecast for 3-5 inches of snow in our area tomorrow. Oh, goody. I say that as a person who has already lived through 59 winters and seen too much snow and ice to make it much fun any more.
Here’s a site you might want to check out if you’re looking for [...]
New Grisham novel reflects reality of ‘buying’ justice in America
I haven’t yet read John Grisham’s latest novel, “The Appeal,” and I normally never write about books I haven’t read — but I have some interesting personal knowledge of Grisham’s theme here and wanted to “sound off.”
The book deals with money corrupting judicial appointments/elections in ways that allow criminal or at least “corrupt” companies and [...]
If you market anything on the Internet, eVisibility can help you
Take it from someone who’s learning how to do it: Internet marketing is a combination of hard work, good luck, and very careful attention to all the details of getting a website up, running, and exposed to traffic. It is not easy. It is not a quick way to overnight fortune.
Above all else, Internet marketing [...]
State of the Union Address — about a C+, maybe, for that one
No one expected President Bush to give a rousing State of the Union Address. I’d say he made about a C+ on it — but when I was teaching the students always found me an easy grader.
What I found really entertaining, however, was watching the Congressmen and Senators during the speech. This year’s was Bush’s [...]
CostCaptian could save you lots of money on some great Microsoft software
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Imagine that: A real, historic Davy Crockett document for sale on eBay
Yes indeed, friends, step right up and place your bids. Here we have (had) a genuine Davy Crockett Almanac. Right there for sale on an eBay auction. (The Crockett almanacs were a series of pamphlets written by the Tennessean who died at the Alamo.)
The one problem, however, is that you have to (had to — [...]
