Day In The Life of Baz

First of all we need to pick a car wash. There are drive throughs with brushes, there are drive throughs without brushes, and there are the self service car washes. I’ve tried all three and I’ll have to go with the last one. When I was in the drive through with the brushes, it sounded so violent when I was in there. It seems that even the soft touch car washes are hard on the car. The brushless wash or laser was as they called it was interesting. First of all, it was ridiculously expensive. Also, when I got done my windows and mirrors were still dirty.

This leaves me with the self service hand washes. I love these, except for the foaming brush, but I’ll touch on that later.

1. BYOS - Bring Your Own Supplies

Don’t rely on engine degreaser and tire cleaner from the hose. First of all, they shoot mass quantities of it out from a hose, how effective can it be? You’re much better off grabbing some supplies over the counter at your local Auto Zone or my personal favorite, Walmart.

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I really hate stories like this:

BLACKSBURG, Va. - A gunman opened fire in a Virginia Tech dorm and then, two hours later, in a classroom across campus Monday, killing at least 30 people in the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history, government officials told The Associated Press. The gunman was killed, bringing the death toll to 31.

It’s becoming a hazard to go to class now. This has to stop people. Check out the latest updates of this story:

Source:

• Yahoo News
• Bloomberg

Popularity: 9%

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Sigh, I don’t even really know where to begin. I finally got a hold of this new phone of mine and I’m having a problems with it. If you don’t know this phone, it’s the Silver Plum as I like to call it. It’s supposed to be Samsung’s answer to Motorola’s SLVR L7.

The Good

There are a few things that I like about this phone: it’s thin, it’s slick, it’s stylish, and the display looks good. I also like the navigation they got on this phone. The main menu has nine (9) items on it. When you pull up one, the nice thing is that you can move to the other menus by hitting left and right. This means you can go from the Phonebook to Messages without having to exit Phonebook and hunting for Messages. This premise also works for submenus; in messages you can go from the Inbox to Sent messages just like that.

While we’re on the subject of messages. There is something that I experienced with my old phone, the Nokia 6101. You couldn’t go from one message to the next. I mean, what gives? You wake up one morning and have 5 new messages. You read the first one, then have to exit, scroll, THEN go to the next message. That really sucked. So I’m glad that Samsung has made things a little bit easier in this respect.

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Not sure how many of you use Remember The Milk. It’s an online task manager, basically.

• Manage tasks quickly and easily.
• Get reminded, anywhere.
• Plan your time.
• Organize the way you want to.
• Work together to get things done.
• Add tasks wherever you are.
• Take your tasks with you.
• Search your tasks the smart way.
• Locate your tasks.
• Enjoy getting organized.

Now there are a lot of features on this time, but I don’t use it a 1/4 of its full potential. All I use it for is for daily (weekdaily mainly) tasks. Since I have an unlimited text message and SMS plan with my cell phone service provider, I have it forward all my tasks to my cell phone. The main one of these tasks is our daily status meeting. Although I have it set up on Outlook at work, I just need that vibrating reminder so that I can get off my butt and head over to the meeting.

Everything has been going great except for this whole Day Light Savings Time thing. Since we’ve hit it three weeks early this year, all the dates were screwed up.

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I came straight over from millionster.com who has a horror story about 1and1 hosting , which would easily qualify for any Dean Koontz novel. Reading it makes you want to cringe, it sure made me want to.

What I Hate

There are things that I don’t like about 1and1:

1. They give you these cryptic logins for your MySQL account and for your FTP username.
2. They host MySQL databases on different servers, so all your PHP scripts that naturally go to localhost will have to have something else defined.
3. There is no statistics package installed. Now AwStats or anything and you don’t have access to the logs so you can’t install your own.
4. And they are shared, and shared hosts in general usually suck.

What I Like

There are a few things I like about them:

1. They’re cheap
2. They’re low priced
3. They’re inexpensive
4. They allow multiple domains.

Looks like we have a tie: 4-4 :-). But seriously, 1and1 hasn’t given me much of a problem since I’ve signed up to them about 7 months ago. I just renewed my subscription and purchased two new domains from them.

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