Archive for December 2004

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No More Late Fees

Wow, is this really true? According to CNN Money, Blockbuster is dropping late fees. Instead, they are implementing a system where…

…customers will be given a one-week grace period… After [the] grace period ends, [Blockbuster] will automatically sell them the product, less the rental fee. If the customers don’t want to purchase the movie [...]

Poll - How’s Your Christmas Shopping Coming Along?

Vote now: How’s Your Christmas Shopping Coming Along?

Cold, Snowy Winter Day

Brr… What a chilly day it is! One of the coldest so far this year for sure. It snowed much of this morning and on and off this afternoon. Figures it would be this cold as today was one of my shifts ringing the bell for the Salvation Army at a [...]

Ten Things To Say If You Get Caught Sleeping At Your Desk

This is for all of you that have at work this Mondy morning.
Ten Things To Say If You Get Caught Sleeping At Your Desk:

“They told me at the blood bank this might happen.”
“This is just a 15 minute power-nap like they raved about in that time management course you sent me to.”
“Whew! [...]

Chris Wins Survivor!

The winner of Survivor: Vanuatu is…Chris Daugherty! I’m so glad he won. I really didn’t like Twila or Scout, who were in the final three with him. Chris played a great game after almost being kicked off in the very first episode of the season. He battled back at the merge, [...]

The Alpha Bloggers

Nice article in Newsweek about blogging - The Alpha Bloggers.

Quote of the Day

“The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws. All the miseries and evil men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.”
- Noah Webster

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday, dear Robin
Happy Birthday to you

New Google Search

Google never ceases to amaze me. They are constantly innovating and thinking outside of the box, blazing that trail where other search engines don’t go. Take for example the local Google search, the Google Images search, and Froogle, Google’s shopping/price comparison search. Then you have a calculator, conversion tool, phone book, and [...]

Poll - What’s Your Favorite Shakespearean Play?

Prompted by the show I saw last night at Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival, I’ve put up a new poll:
What’s Your Favorite Shakespearean Play?