I’m starting a new, hamster-focused blog for pictures, news, and stories about me and the hams. If that sort of thing interests you, point your computing device to http://www.lifeinhamsterdam.com/.
This is a rebirth of sorts of the content from my late, lamented blog that went with rodentbreak.com. WIth that site, the domain name expired earlier this …
It is unbelievably weird to see a story that we broke at Consumerist on Monday as a “details at eleven” teaser on the local news before “Lost,” complete with exterior shot of the restaurant where it happened.
I finally have a decently-formatted virtual clips page online. I’m linking to my author pages at the various sites I write (or used to write) for, and direct links to some of my favorite work. For Consumerist and AOA, I list everything, since I don’t have enough pieces for either to bother picking out favorites. …
This coming week is National Volunteer Week. Haven’t heard of it? Neither had I, until just now, but I like the idea.
I’ve read reports in various news outlets that newly un-, under-, and self-employed people are volunteering in record numbers. I’m ashamed to admit that I am not one of them. I haven’t done much volunteering …
On Tuesday, I made my first Consumerist post, which is somehow now pushing 300,000 pageviews.
Today, I made my second All Over Albany post, which doesn’t have quite as much traffic, but my photos were still met with controversy.
I’m tired of being e-famous. I think I’m going to shut up for the rest of the week.
Wait, no, …
TU likely to charge Web users
None of this is a surprise, of course, and is part of the broader free-fall of the newspaper business, including at the bankrupt Journal Register Co. (owner of papers in Troy and Saratoga) and the Schenectady Gazette (which has had wave after wave of layoffs, and like the TU recently raised prices for …
It’s strangely comforting to know that Jorge Garcia from “Lost” seems to love coupons as much as I do.
I think I’ve learned how much photographic bacon it takes to make me feel physically ill.
This much.
The following is my visual tribute to this blog post.