The Net

Digg That Bad Site

Normally people submit stories to Digg about stuff they find interesting, cool or newsworthy. However, Tyler paged me on MSN saying one of his sites got Dugg. I asked him why and he replied because it was bad. Turns out some Digger came across his site and thought it was so bad that he needed to Digg it to tell […]

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Ramblings

The Joy of Not Budgeting

How many people here have a budget? I take it not too many. Now for those that do have a budget, how many of you stick to it? Most people that do have budgets fail to stick to them because there are always expenses that they failed to account for. Me? I don’t have a budget, which seem so unlike […]

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The Net

Couple Surfing – The Wave Of The Future?

Imagine going on lunch date where you don’t talk to your partner. Instead, you communicate via IM from your notebook to her. Sounds crazy? Well, it’s happening more than you think. As a matter of fact, this is happening so often that a new term has been given for it; Couple-surfing. Couple-surfing describes “netaholics” or “infomaniacs” who surf alongside each […]

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The Net

Getting Google’s Attention

It looks like whatever I’m doing is getting the attention of Google because they actually call me up on the phone for a little chitchat. You can imagine my surprise when I answered the phone and the person on the other end of the line said “Hello John? This is Christian from Google AdSense. Do you have time to talk?” […]

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Ramblings

People Can’t Drive When It Rains

Why is it whenever we get just a little bit of rain, Vancouver drivers think the speed limit is 5MPH? We’ve been having great weather for quite a while but today we got some rain and it happened before I went to Mandarin school. I left at my normal time which gets me to school with a good 20 minutes […]

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Cars

NASCAR Love Stories Anyone?

While watching the Allstate 400, I discovered that in addition to entertaining fans with race cars, NASCAR also entertains them with romance novels. NASCAR has a licensing agreement Harlequin Romance to write novels based around the NASCAR world. The first novel is call In The Groove by Pamela Britton. She wouldn’t know a NASCAR star if he hit her with […]

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Cars

You Can’t Beat NASCAR

It’s been ages since I watched a NASCAR race but as luck would have it, Sunday was the running of the Brickyard 400 (now call the Allstate 400) at the most famous race track in the world, the Indiannapolis Motor Speedway. The speedway was built in 1909 and hosts three big race events each year; the famous Indy 500, F1 […]

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