Doesn't Sit Well With Me

“The rescue package was cobbled together on Saturday and Sunday during a series of telephone...

ebooks

Before I got the Kindle, I hated ebooks.  I dont like reading long documents via adobe and dont...

Iphone's appeal to the over 50 crowd

My parents both hate their current cellular flip phones and have ultimately decided to get the new...

Rehearsal Dinner

Tonight was my rehearsal dinner and it was one of the best nights of my life.  Its a blessing to...

addicted to the kindle

Its reached the point that if a book is not available on the kindle, i dont want to read it

att is annoying

why is customer service closed on sundays?

NBA Finals

The first 4 games of the finals have all started a 9 pm eastern time.  These days I can barely...

Marriage license part 2

Marriage license

Read my tumblr in french, italian,...

I added the google translate gadget to my tumblr.  If any of my 8 or so followers want to read my...

Finally

Financial Independence in 1 Second a Day...

Currently sitting at number five in the amazon best seller list, and number 1 in their business and...

A new post on half-blog half-amazing

Check it out

I saw Jake in Union Square. "jake!...

I was walking in Union square early last week and i walked by Jake from Jake and Amir fame.  It was...

My NBA Blog was Picked up by Yahoo!...

I have an NBA themed blog called Half-Blog, Half-Amazing.  Last night, I posted my thoughts on the...

The New York Times shows some love to...

I previously wrote a mazel tov tumblog to Eran on the sucess of his new firm, ODA Architecture. ...

The "Thanks" email

Do you like getting a reply email that only says “thanks” or would you rather just not...

Got a Kindle

Actually i just ordered a kindle and it arrives tomorrow.  regardless, point is i am very excited. ...

Facebook Chat

I love it.  i dont have AOL IM names for most of my facebook friends and facebook chat makes it even...

Shalom My Friend! Congratulations Eran...

Congratulations to my good friend Eran Chen on the success of his new architectural firm ODA.  I had...

Go Kansas

For the first time ever I finished in the top 10 for my NCAA pool.  You have to understand that I...

Best happy hour ad ever?

Skype and MS Outlook

Why isnt skype address a field in MS outlook contacts?

Ordering books online & the amex bonus...

I have been partial to ordering books online through amazon for as long as i can remember.  This...

ESPN Page 2 - Simmons: 'To An Athlete Dying...

The Future is Here. I'm watching live...

As I type I am watching the end of the Kansas vs. Davidson NCAA game on www.ncaasports.com and its...

Blackberry messenger doesnt get enough...

Ive written before that email is a tool that hinders productivity for many and that we are all...

ESPN - Blazers admonish Oden after hearing he...

Whats the most powerful word in the...

tonight I think the most powerful word is “Why”

QQ: What is the fastest "0 to global"...

katomate: dihard: Basically, what brand (company, product, person, any entity that holds a brand...

Odom Is Flourishing With Gasol On Board «...

Devean George AKA DeLoser George Just Killed...

jonathanmarcus: Best Combos: 1 / 2: Warriors: Davis / Ellis...

Is Wawa as popular as Twitter?

Wawa is a 7/11 style chain of bodegas.  Twitter is the sensation that is sweeping the nation by...

"Euros Accepted" signs pop up in New York...

Pau Gasol And Mitch Kupchak Now In Kobe’s...

Thank you Apple

forearmshiver: There is nothing I hate more than poor customer service, which is one of the reasons...

poortaste: Will their live performances be as good as the...

Social Networking Overload

If I read about one more company that is starting a new social network for _______ group I am going...

Our Justice System Makes Sense

jbeyda: michael jackson molested little boys
jbeyda: r kelly molested little girls
jbeyda: michael vick killed dogs
jbeyda: only 1 is in jail
jbeyda: where is the justice db
db: HA
db: that was genius

Has Hillary Clinton Ever Used Google

How about Barack?  Do I just not understand campaign election laws? I did a google search for...

Have you checked out The Sleeveface Pool on flickr yet? ...

Boston Globe Axing Hundreds, Raising Price -...

ReadBurner is a must use

There are a lot of services that try to use wisdom of the crowds to promote content across the web. ...

gmail is good but their contacts manager...

here is what i would like to see 1. ability to easily merge contacts 2. until comment 1 is fixed,...

Emmanuelle Chriqui was born in Montreal, Quebec, to...

Panic

  Markets around the world are crashing on news of the pending US recession.  Futures are down...

The apology from the Tumblr team

I am really impressed.  Their apology was sincere and genuine, creating a tremendous amount of...

Third tynes a charm

Go Giants!

Mind boggling

To say it’s a great time to be a Boston sports fan is an understatement of historic...

Song Lyrics

How come when I buy a song from itunes the lyrics arent automatically provided? 

‘Real Books’ Are Great, Except in Your...

Exclusives: The Tom Cruise Indoctrination...

Chad Ford actually got one right this time. Chad...

Trends and Truisms Day Ten (part two): Jeremy...

the wait time to speak to a yahoo rep...

30 minutes.  Awesome. 

Simple web design looks great on iPhones. I’m on this...

Another Letter to Yahoo  Dear Yahoo, I have been using...

A letter to yahoo

Dear Yahoo,  I have been using your small business - online merchant solution for the past 3 hours. ...

Is being grateful really that...

Living in a doorman building in Manhattan is incredibly expensive.  This is especially true during...

Tumblr wish list

1. private posts 2. sharing posts only with certain individuals 3. usage stats beyond tumblr...

Time Warner Cable - Graded F for...

I used to have a TWC high speed Internet account. I tried shutting this service off in December and...

I-Reporter's wedding cake is a full-sized...

Windows Errors Part 1

Today I tried to uninstall a Symantec product using the add/remove tool supplied by windows XP. ...

SHAQ'S HAREM

VentureBeat » Jawbone gets big boost from...

Oklahoma City Mayor Puts City on a Diet

205 Million in cold, hard, cash.  Recovered in a mexican...

“I want to leave a legacy, I want to leave a tradition and...”
— Isiah Thomas before yesterdays...

Airport Wifi

I hate connecting to the internet at the airport.  In every airport there is some internet access...

I am not a technologist. But, I have a solid understanding...

NBA Scouting

Below is a scouting report from the 2002 NBA draft written by Andy Katz. Brandon Roy was considering...

Ayn Rand's Brilliance

    “Look, Gail.” Roark got up, reached out, tore a thick branch off a tree, held it in...

Ill take the Glatt Kosher Bacon and Egg sandwich please

Brady vs. Jordan

This post deserves a very long introduction with background on both players. I promise to do just...

Kindle eReader

5. Amazon Launches Kindle eReader Despite mixed reviews of this e-Reader device with internet...

Mixed Martial Arts

Mix martial arts (MMA), and by extension the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), is going to be...

Hollywood Spin Doctor

From Marc Andreessen’s Blog   “This week you probably read headlines to the effect of,...

Instant Fortunes, and Sudden Headaches - New...

System Overload

Wired is reporting that information overload is being predicted by some analysts as the problem...

LowestPricesInOurLicensedOnlinePharmacyVi...

I flag a lot of shit as spam in Hotmail / MSN. Its 2007, and people have spent years focused on...

Fred Wilson's Posts and the Need for a...

I subscribe to Fred Wilson’s feed.  Fred is in Australia for the holidays and is microblogging...

Google Trends

While I don’t remember the exact percentage, i believe Google now controls over 60% of...

Time magazines man of the year has never...

The man of the year is none other than Vladimir Putin the Tsar of Russia. Think about that for a...

Wildest hair ever?

Jet blue Christmas weekend. Organized chaos

Hair shot part 2

Writing is difficult

After tumbling for about two weeks now, I’ve realized that it has gotten increasingly...

BORAT BURIED & ALI G-ONE

VIDEO: Lost - Season 4 Trailer #2

FreeRice

caps and hats, caps and hats!

Success!  Uncle Charlie got his first phone call today for custom printed caps and hats.  The caller...

Even when its off, its on

Today I was giving uncle charlie some ideas on how to make his webpage a bit more user friendly. As...

Google Talkabout: Merry Christmas, God Jul...

Slashdot | 3.2 Billion Dollars Lost to...

No Charlie, its not AOL

My uncle charlie is convinced that being on AOL for too long causes our entire internet connection...

ENJOYABLE Customer Service (gasp)

Google is the greatest.  A tour de force, an unstoppable juggernaut of innovation.  I use gmail,...

tumblr comments!

Last week I noticed that Fred Wilson’s tumblog had a commenting feature. Naturally I...

“Im really enjoying the posts… but you have to proof...”
— http://forearmshiver.com/

Customer service nightmare AGAIN

I am shutting trying to shut down my Time-Warner Business class Internet service.  Trying is the...

ATT Rollover Minutes

I called ATT today to drop my wireless plan from $59.99 to $39.99 a month. There were a lot of...

she cant think of a name for her...

Alana is setting up her tumblog - partially as a response to my putting her name in one of her...

End of 07 epiphany

Tonight I went to a holiday party thrown by james laforce - president of LaForce and stevens (one of...

Google news alerts

I think news alerts provides a very valuable tool.  Informationn/content is king and this is a way...

Google AdWords

I have just started learning how to use adwords and I must say that updating the campaign homepage...

Inspirational quotes

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work - Thomas Edison,...

A sign of the times...

The dollar’s fall has been so drastic, it has seeped into the popular consciousness. In his last...

Simmons for Knicks GM part II

Incredibly, this appeared in sports guy mailbox the same day that I made my original post. Thanks...

Sports guy for knicks gm

Sadly, the knicks are the most embarrassing franchise in all of sports. I put this squarely on the...

A jack of all trades....

Is a master of none.  Thats kind of how i feel right now.  a mentor right now would be helpful.  a...

Whats next

The web keeps us connected.  The world is getting flatter.  We are getting bombareded with...