There’s some pretty cool new software for fantasy football this year. It is designed for fantasy football draft parties (for up to 20 teams) to select their players via either a snake draft, or an auction draft. The draft software is called Prime Time Draft, and it was developed by folks at where I work. It is designed for Windows, and it really shines when you hook it up to a big TV. ...
I wanted to start using SQL Server. I was using DiscoutASP.NET, and was paying $10/mo. If I wanted to add on SQL Server, it would have cost an additional $10 per month, brining the total to $240 per year, which was a bit more than I wanted to pay for hosting on a personal blog. I searched around and found a host named Arvixe. The price was absolutely excellent. The basic hosting package costs $5/mo, and it comes with 6 websites and 6 SQL Server databases. They also claim unlimited bandwidth and storage, although I’m not sure what it means. I am pretty sure that its not really unlimited, although I doubt they’ll complain about my little blog. The final price for Arvixe (I also got a static IP) was $96 for 2 years (that’s with a 20% off coupon, which can be found pretty easily using Google), with an additional $48 for a static IP for 2 years. Not bad, and way cheaper than what I was paying before. ...
Finally got Rank 1 in a diamond league (random 2v2) in Starcraft II. I realize rankings don’t mean much, but its still cool to get there.
Logitech has started to send out the replacement remotes (890) as part of their settlement in the class action (Arthur Fulford v. Logitech Inc. Class Action Settlement). Mine came in the mail yesterday on April 15th. It was a refurbished model, but everything seems good. It has already replaced the H1000 in my living room.
Today I was reminded exactly of why I hate flying. A couple months ago, I purchased a ticket to fly to Krakow, Poland. I live in Cincinnati, and it is not possible to have a direct flight into Poland. The best you can do from CVG is a one-stop flight. I really wanted as few stops as possible, so I paid $1360 for a ticket with only one stop ( Chicago ). I could have saved myself $600 on the ticket and bought a multi-stop ticket for around $700, but I just wanted the trip to be as quick as possible. ...
It has been 6 days since my nJoy Electronic Cigarette Review (Part 1). My biggest complaint in that review was the price of the refill cartiges. Thanks to some help from very kind people at the e-cigarette-forum.com, I found out that e-liquid (smoke juice, whatever you want to call it) is actually available for purchase. A couple sites that offer it, such as ePuffer and e-cig; however, both were out of stock (after researching this some more, I found out that e-cig.com has temporarily suspended shipping due to the Olympics and tightened security for sending liquids – they’re based in China). Well, fortunately, we have eBay, and I was able to purchase my very first bottle of the liquid. ...
A week or so ago I ordered the nJoy electronic cigarette. I’ve tried to quit smoking before, and although I had no problems stopping (apart from the 1-2 day nicotine withdrawal), I’ve always felt like starting up again because the thing I was really addicted to doing was the action of smoking. Well, over lunch one day I heard someone talking about electronic cigarettes, so I decided to look it up. The fact that these seem to be relatively harmless (no tobacco, tar, carcinogens, etc.) was very appealing, and I could fulfill my desire to actually inhale something. In the past, I’ve tried nicotine patches (I actually got poisoned from one), but as I pointed out before, the thing I miss most when I stop smoking is the actual action of smoking, not the nicotine itself, so, needless to say, the patch didn’t work. ...
Well, after a few years of doing absolutely nothing with this site, I’ve decided to bring it up again. Not sure what I’m going to use it for yet, but I think I’ll be posting some annoying bugs I’m running into along with other information that probably no one in the world really cares about. But its fun. Also, amazingly, a few days after I activated this domain again, I’ve noticed some people already visited this site… at first I thought it was some random stuff, but these visits were from South Bend, Granger, etc… strange, but neat at the same time.