I got a personal email from Mr. Bernanke – head of the Federal Reserve
It’s the price of success: people start to think you’re omnipotent. Ben Bernanke How special do I feel??? Today I received a personal email from the head of the US Federal Reserve, none other than Ben Bernanke himself! Now, I found the following things a little strange about the email He uses hotmail. Come on,…
The Curse of the Belly Fat
I guess I don’t so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old. Benjamin Franklin I believe it started out like this: Once upon a time, in a quiet, small town in Canada, a boy lay asleep in his bed. Unbeknownst to him or his family a horrible ogre had slipped into…
I suck at diaries
If you read somebody’s diary, you get what you deserve. David Sedaris Blog’s really are online diaries. And by that I mean you can find thousands of them that have lots of entries between (metaphorically) January 1st and 15th, then things peter off to every once in a while and then the rest of the…
What it is to be selfish
For me the definition of a selfish person is clear I don’t like what you are doing, so I want you to change for me. Recently a friend of mine seems to be running up against this from inside their family. And it got me thinking. I’ve been accused of being very selfish because I…
Is buying frequent flyer miles worth it?
Right now Miles and More (Lufthansa’s StarAlliance rewards program) is having a sale on. You get 20% more miles when you buy. Often this scheme is touted by people (like Chris Guillebeau for example) as a good way to get more miles. But, I sometimes wonder if it is worth it. During the sale, if…
BannersBroker – never give up, never surrender!
Just a quickie about our old buddies at BannersBroker. Seems their latest thing is that their script tag you place on a page to supposedly get ads from THEIR network simply puts up stuff from clicksor. You’d think a company as big and important as BannersBroker would at least use their own domain name.