Posts from ‘December, 2005’

Clutter is bad

Every few years, usually around the time I move, I go through my possessions and sell, donate, or throw out things I don’t need. Over the years, I’ve gotten better and better at not collecting/buying things I don’t need. It’s not easy but I try to ask myself if I really need something [...]

Campton Place – Encore une fois

After my last visit to Campton, I’ve been telling people of my near perfect experience at Campton. Talking about it way too much, I decided with some good friends to return for another visit so they could experience it for themselves. The couple joining us had been doing degustations for the past couple of weekends [...]

The best shower

I recently purchased the Aquasana Shower Filter (costs around $60) and wanted to plug the product. A couple of months ago, our water was off due to some building maintenance and I had to resort to washing my face and hair with purified water. I was amazed at how great my skin and [...]

The obligatory spam rant

We’ve recently been dealing with some issues with spam filters erroneously catching activation emails from Hungry Critic. While I was dealing with the issues, I initially got irritated with the spammers. Then I thought about it, and it’s really the fault of the users.
Spammers obviously continue this behavior since it works. [...]

Cool music site

Pandora.com
From their site, “At Pandora Media™ (formerly Savage Beast Technologies™), we have a single mission: To help you discover new music you’ll love.” Basically they use the technology they developed at the Music Genome Project to figure out music you might like based on a favorite song’s characteristics.
So far, I’ve only put [...]