Monthly Archives: December 2007

Foul-mouthed customer leaves waitress $50000 tip

The payoff for kindness. Brownsville Texas: For nearly seven years Melina Salazar did her best to put on a smile and tend to the every need of her most loyal and cantankerous customer. read more | digg story

Twitter Down

What’s the deal?  All the attention from the last couple of days finally get to you? The “twittersphere” is tweeting about the down time.

Spellify 1.0 – An Automatic Text Field Spell Checker

Spellify is a script.aculo.us/prototype based spell checker for form fields that utilizes Google as its spell check engine. Spellify version 1.0 has been released, officially taking the application out of beta and bringing it to prime time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fFA0uWTd4M |

Windows Live Writer

I have just installed the Windows Live Writer (WLW) and thought I would take it for a spin by writing a little review about it. First Impression: It actually seems pretty nice.  WordPress 2.3.1, the backbone of this site, fully…

Marketing 2.0

Marketing is my day job and I typically reserve the blog for geeking out, but I’ve just read a great post by Hugh MacLeod over at gapingvoid entitled, “So What’s All This New Marketing Stuff, Anyway?”  I agree with what…

“The Bubble”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6IQ_FOCE6I via TechCruch  The Bubble video, watched over a million times since it was uploaded to YouTube and other video sites in early December, is back. It was down briefly when photographer Lane Hartwell complained via her attorney that one…

Zumobi: Not everyone hates it

ZDNet’s Matthew Miller writes a positive review of Zumobi. I did a mini-review of it last week and found it to be an underwhelming app when it came to performance. Zumobi brings a fresh experience to Windows Mobile by ZDNet‘s…

Tiny Twitter

Tiny Twitter is mobile application that will run on any java enabled device, Blackberry, or Windows Mobile (Professional or Smartphone).  I downloaded the Windows Mobile Pocket PC version and took it for a spin on my AT&T Tilt.   vs   The Tiny…

Floppies!

I used to love installing software, inserting disc 1 of 34! via download squad Remember when software used to come on disks, not discs? You know, the old floppies that could hold a whopping 1.2 or even 1.4MB of storage?…

Twitter Down

Twitter is still down. Now what am I supposed to while I am in line at Starbucks?