Archives: 'March, 2006'

25
March
2006

Blast from the past — Photo of the day winner

I was scrubbing old emails from my inbox and I stumbled upon an old email back in April 2005 that informed me I won “Photo of the Day” over at Imaging-Resource.com.  On a whim, I submitted this photo I took of myself which was shot with a Canon S200 without any setup.
http://www.dailydigitalphoto.com/cgi-bin/potd/potd.pl?day=9&month=4&year=2005


14
March
2006

UberReview.com’s Top 10 alarm clocks

UberReview.com posted up a list of Top 10 alarm clocks. This is really the “top 10 most annoying and idiotic alarm clocks”. While it’s amusing to read, it’s definitley not useful because none of em are really viable devices. They do, however, feature the Puzzle Alarm clock I so lovingly commented on before.

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9
March
2006

Alarm clocks reviewed

Gerard sent me a review of alarm clocks that Slate.com did. His exact IM to me was “I thought of your obsession with alarm clocks when I saw this”.
Their rating methodology is on 4 factors:
“Ease of Use (10 possible points): Our days are stressful enough already—setting one’s alarm clock should not be as difficult […]

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7
March
2006

Reunited with snowboarding

Brandon and Amber managed to convince me to go snowboarding with them to Stevens Pass last sunday. I’m SO glad I went as I had a blast.  Technically I’ve been snowboarding for 10 years, since 1996.  Truthfully though, I haven’t been boarding in over 3 years, and in the previous 7 years I’ve only been […]


1
March
2006

Wakeup gadget from hell redux

I’ve gone on in the past about my inability to wake up in the morning and an idea how to solve this. In fact, my previous post on the aXbo alarm clock continues to be the most popular post on my entire blog. I will be definitely adding more fuel to the fire […]

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