I gotta get me one of deez!
ByDerek
This week’s Spam Special comes to us from Shadya Brewer, and seems to be a exceprt from The Hobbit… specially greedy, strong and wicked worm called Smaug. One day he flew up into the air and came south. The first we heard of it was a noise like a hurricane coming from the North, and…
Spent the week in sunny California – Anaheim area. One highlight of the trip was getting to visit the Queen Mary. Interestingly, the city of Long Beach owns the Queen Mary, and purchased it for $3.45 million – considerably more than it’s scrap value in 1967. It now leases it out to various entities, where…
Greg Connors has a piece in today’s Buffalo News about making money from blogging, which quotes yours truly: Derek Punaro blogs with his wife, Amanda, at Punaro.com. He says there are not interested in selling ad space. “A lot of people incorporate ads into their site to defray their costs and bring in some income,…
With the Borders at Quaker Crossing progressing right along, today comes this announcement of Barnes & Noble building a new store at the McKinley Mall. The proclaimed world’s largest bookseller will open its first Southtowns store sometime in 2007, officials confirmed Wednesday. It was also noted that it will be the only Barnes & Noble…
There are lots of great applications and technologies out there for us internet addicts to use as we read and blog. Generally these technologies are invented to fulfill a specific need, but then are frequently adapted by others to extend beyond the original purpose. Generally that purpose is advertising or spam. Take Twitter, for instance….
I was fortunate to acquire a copy of Adobe Photoshop CS5 for work and I was spending a few minutes learning some of the features that have been introduced since Photoshop 6. I had a few of my Europe photos on my work computer, so I wanted to try a treatment on one particular photo…