Home Improvement Tool and Toy Reviews

I came across this site and while I am not usually into the arts and craft thing my wife definitely is. It is a personalised baby gift that makes the letters of a baby’s name and spells them out with different items such as flowers and butter flies for girls and trucks and airplanes for boys.

This is a really cool thing to give as a baby shower gift for new parents to hang in their child’s nursery. I am going to suggest to my wife that we get one each for my son and daughter to hang in their rooms.

Technorati: Baby Shower Gift, Babies, Decorating, Nursery

Bum deal.

I just tired to connect to Napster to check out some Beastie Boys and the Napster Servers are down. I even tried to get to their web site and no dice.

I still haven’t gotten my MP3 from the yet either.

Bum deal.

Technorati: Napster, Music, Internet Outage, MP3 Player

Offices 2 Share which is a web site where you can search for short-term, ready-to-use office space - Executive Suites, Shared Office Space, etc is having it’s second annual Home Office From Hell contest.

Basically you have to give the top 10 reasons why you have the home office from hell. They also say that you get extra credit for uploading a video of why you have a home office from hell.

The 1st place prize winner will receive 12 months of rent (up to $12,000) at any location posted on Offices2Share.com plus a paid trip to New York City to have lunch with Donald Trump’s right-hand man and former Co-Star of The Apprentice - George Ross.

The First Runner-Up will receive a Dell Notebook Computer, a Library of Trump University audio tapes, and three books by Donald Trump.

The 3rd, 4th, and 5th place winners will get the 3 books by Mr. Trump.

If I was still running my business I bet I could win this contest.

Technorati: Offices 2 Share, Contest, Home Office, Donald Trump, George Ross

I grew up in Southern California where hunting was something that you did no Nintendo or saw on TV. I did go skeet hunting quite a few times - for clay targets - but I have never really been hunting.

Now that I am in Texas it seems that hunting is a pretty big sport here. The local grocery store sells blinds that you sit in in order to get a chance to shoot a deer. I really would not have a problem shooting a deer but cleaning it is another story. Enough said. (more…)

I came across this web site and wished that it had been around a few years ago when I needed health insurance. It is Vimo - Comparison Shopping for Health.

Basically you go to the site type in your zip code and and answer a couple questions and they search for health insurance for you. I have insurance through the company I work for so I hardly pay anything but if I needed insurance this would be a great place to start.

The other thing that is cool about the site is that you can search for doctors in your area and rate them. My doctor was not there but I plan on getting her info and adding it because she is very good.

Anyway, if you are in the market this is a good resource.

Technorati: Vimo, Heath Care, Health Insurance

MIT was the beginnings of a sketch program that after you do your sketch will automatically animate it for you. I would love to see a 3d version of this.

Technorati: MIT, Drawing, Sketch, Software, Animation

This rocks! You can totally put a Google Gadget on your web site. So below how I put BeJeweled right in this post with a simple copy and paste of the code. Cool huh?

Technorati: Google, Google Gadgets, Blog, Blogging

Recently my wife and I were talking with some friends that were feeling a little pinch financially due to some life changes happening in their family. Having been there a time or too before we recommended to them that refinance on or both of their cars with a new Auto Refinance loan.

It is no secret that you can often get better financing then what you can get at the dealer. Unfortunately though it is not always easy to find it.

One company that helps in this matter is rategenius.com. At Rate Genius they have a full set of FAQ’s that explain about the refinance process and estimate home much you could save every month on your payment. They even have an offer that allows you to skip 3 months of payments (just in time for Christmas).

Anyway, if you did not get the best deal on your auto loan check out Raqte Genius to see what they can do for you.

Technorati: Auto Loans, Cars, Loans, Refinance

Dunkin Donuts is giving away a free cup of iced coffee if you set your homepage to yahoo.com for today (Sept 22, 2006) only. The ad is on there home page.

All you do is type in your Yahoo email address and they take you to the spot to get your printable coupon.

Go get one!

Technorati: Dunkin Donuts, Coffee, Free Stuff, Starbucks, Seatles Best, Deals, Marketing

As you can imagine when you move to one region to another their are going to be differences from one are to another - especially when those two areas are separated by 1500 miles.

One of the main differences between Los Angeles and Austin (other then the traffic and the people) is the food. I have long been a fan of Rudy’s BBQ and eat there on almost a weekly basis.

Today I decided to try something different - Schlotzsky’s Deli. It is similar to Quizno’s except for the fact that they make their bread fresh daily (not like how subway does it with frozen dough). The other thing that is cool about Schlotzsky’s is that they have 2 free Mac’s available that you can surf the internet from (I am blogging from one right now). You can also bring your laptop to surf free internet to.

I have to say that it is nice to see companies finally realizing the pull that the internet has on people. See I am not a big deli sandwich type of guy but Schlotzsky’s has just been added to the list because of the internet access.