Ramblings Technology

The Winner Of OCZ Roadster

Congrats goes out to Stephen De Chellis of HMTKSteve for winning the 1GB Roadster USB 2.0 drive from OCZ Technology. Steve is the proud owner of the world’s smallest USB drive. A big thanks to everyone for entering the contest. I will have a new contest soon. Seeing how not as many people added me to their Technorati favorites this […]

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Ramblings

Only Billionaires Need Apply

What do you get when spend $140 million on a house? One very big house! This video takes you on a tour of Updown Court, the most expensive house in the world currently for sale. You have to love a house with an En-suite swimming pool! BTW – The $140 million just gets you the house. You’ll have to come […]

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Ramblings

3000 AGLOCO Sign Ups

Today I passed the 3,000 members mark in my AGLOCO network. As I write this post, I am sitting at 3,010 referrals. Considering I haven’t talked about AGLOCO in nearly a month and my referrals still increase by over 1,000, that’s not too bad. However, the numbers could have been better. If you look at my referral chart, you’ll see […]

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Fine Dining

The Fear Factor Lunch

After reading Carl’s post about his Cheui Yuen Siu Gun experience, I decided it was about time to hit the old standby lunch spot, #9 Restaurant. Richmond has some really authentic Hong Kong style restaurants and #9 is as close to the real Hong Kong as you can get. In many ways, the restaurant is better than what is available […]

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Technology The Net

Would You Pay $355 For an E-mail Address?

I can understand the buying and selling of Internet domain names, but the buying and selling of free email addresses? It seems some enterprising individual registered an email with Yahoo for iPhone_Wholesalers @ yahoo.com and is now trying to sell the address on eBay. The Winning Bid Was $355 First of all, I’m sure the selling of Yahoo email addresses […]

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The Net

Broke Top 1000 In Technorati

I hit a blogging milestone yesterday for John Chow dot Com. The blog broke into the top 1000 Technorati ranked blogs! Currently, the blog is ranked 984 most popular. I’m very happy with results and this is a good start to my goal of getting into the Technorati Top 100. To reach that goal, I will need a lot more […]

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The Net

Google Updates AdSense TOS

Google has updated their AdSense TOS with some new changes designed to ensure Google has no competition from rival networks that look like Google ads. JenSense has the full scoop. Competitive Ads and Services In order to prevent user confusion, we do not permit Google ads or search boxes to be published on websites that also contain other ads or […]

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The Net Wordpress

Threading The Comments

While visiting the Shoe, I came across a really neat WordPress Plugin call Brian’s Threaded Comments. This is a really cool Plugin that I had to install. Brain’s Threaded Comments add a “Reply to this comment” link to every blog comments. When you click the reply link, your comment is placed direct under the comment you replied to. This is […]

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