just testing if youtube is embedable.
Dunkin Donuts spreading coffee around the world… scary thought.
Apparently dunkin donuts is going to china, they plan on opening 100 shops in Shanghai. I used to like Dunkin a very long time ago, until they business formula change and they pretty much just hired robot tending zombies and could not get a coffee right to save there lives. Many nights of getting coffees from Dunkin Donuts that just have gone wrong with coffee that you could either run in terror from or made so wrong that carrot top looks normal. they have gone the way of mcdonalds, Serving warmed shit(although mcdonalds gets an exception- you need to goto Sweden to actually get a burger that is edible compared to its US counterpart). Mostly my friends and I goto honey dew donuts, there you get people who know what you want before asking rather than the blank look you’d get going into a DD. So who knows.. MAYBE just maybe good coffee is out of the country but the judge is out on this one.
whao. i think i need to update a bit more often .
its been quiet and thankfully good , for the most part capital one issue has been solved but still ongoing. in the end my own bank ended up refunding me all the fees , but capital one 4 days later screwed up and refunded me twice more, my main objective is to get that crap payed off and get rid of credit cards… who needs em.. they suck.
Picked up madden 08 for the Wii, although when it comes to games from EA i am extremely wary of EA due to there quality , 9 times out of 10 they have some stupid "Show stopping" bug that either pisses you off to no end or you have to do some thing to get passed that part. the last game i suffered through like that was Command and conquer III, every time you got to the 3rd of 4th level of that game you were greeted with a HARD lock of your PC, i had tried it out on my other PC and same thing happened. Anyways getting to the Madden thing.. about the 3rd game in if you "sim" the games leading up to the game your about to play from the Team scedule it locks the wii in a hard lock which you have to shut it down and restart , If you go from the menu that shows all games every team is playing schedule, it does not lock up. plus if you haven’t saved your screwed. you loose all progress till the last time you saved (did you remember to save)
update 1.58287.18.6.3? post christmas update.
Mmmm Yes… i’ve let Christmas pass without much thought. thanks to capital one keeping me pre-occupied with a severely screwed up checking account. One of the good things to come from christmas is a mini-fridge from my friends jeff and josh.
I used to keep stuff downstairs but it would disappear to the culprits of Not-me and I-dont-know. But now i have my own stash of goodness. Coffee/Soda/more soda/Snacks etc. It needs beer though. i drank the last one out of there awhile ago. I’ve been making use out of the coffee and thankfully stuff doesnt disapear unlike the other fridge.
Lack of Updates.
hmm I’ve not been paying attention to much to the site and i kinda forgot about the site for a bit. stuff has been a bit crazy around here so its hard to keep everything going. 
But with Christmas On the wya things are just going to get more busy here and sleep will be less with the Decorations that my neighbor put up. EVIL EVIL MUSICAL DECORATIONS….
Social Security …my take on it…
| Bush Admin. Urges Social Security Fix
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER – 1 day ago WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration said in a new report A report issued by the Treasury Department said that some |
ahhh social security, How do i know thee. since the 2nd term of George W., He’s had his eye on this issue, but was not able to mess with the system *yet* for the people who stand to make money off it. And right off in starting with this article they are already messing with average joe. “the Shortfall in the coming years.” ? coming years? well fuck whens that? did someone contact the physic network on this one? Maybe next leap year on a full moon with bill clinton playing the sax to the great pumpkin. Magic 8-ball, *Reply hazy, ask again later* (which means yes to certain people.) anyways…
No … Just no………….
Dunkin Donuts is going to start selling pizza…. thats just a scary thought. they cant even get a coffee right , who knows what the fuck they would do to a pizza.
Subway, Dunkin’ give pizza a chance
By Bruce Horovitz, USA TODAY
Subway is to sandwiches what Dunkin’ is to doughnuts. So why are both chains exploring — pizza?
It’s
because fast foodies find it tough to resist sticking a gooey finger in
the $28.5 billion pizza industry at a time when the pie biggies — Pizza
Hut (YUM), Domino’s (DPZ) and Papa John’s (PZZA) — have seen growth stall.
More than a decade ago, even McDonald’s (MCD)
tested pizza before tossing in the apron. But with consumer interest in
pizza high and pizza-dominated chains’ sales lagging, the temptation to
roll out the dough is once again peaking.
Of all meals eaten at restaurants, 9% now include pizza, reports NPD Group.
“The demographic of pizza eaters is about the same as oxygen breathers,” says Steve Green, publisher of PMQ’s Pizza Magazine, a trade publication.
Recent
pizza growth has been in artisan, take-n’-bake and rising-crust pizzas,
Green says. Now, Subway and Dunkin’ think faster, smaller pizzas may
find a niche.
Subway is dishing out
personal-size pizzas at about half its stores nationally, and Dunkin’
Donuts is testing personal pizzas at 15 prototype stores in six states.
“Everyone in the industry is keeping an eye on the new entries,” says Mandy Detwiler, managing editor at Pizza Today.
Network Nuetrality again…
it seems after the network Neutrality issue is being dragged up again.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118910051959919525.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
From the article
Justice Department Opposes ‘Net Neutrality’
Associated Press
Word Count: 323 | Companies Featured in This Article: AT&T, Verizon Communications, Comcast
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Thursday said Internet service providers should be allowed to charge a fee for priority Web traffic.
The agency told the Federal Communications Commission, which is reviewing high-speed Internet practices, that it is opposed to “Net neutrality,” the principle that all Internet sites should be equally accessible to any Web user.
Several phone and cable companies, such as AT&T Inc., …
the companies want to Prioritize traffic , traffic shaping. Which in the right hands maybe a good thing. but this is not going to happen. they just want to squeeze more money out of the net. to make sites Pay for there bandwidth used on there network and create another revenue avenue.
an article from SlashDot.org http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/09/06/2329200.shtml
“I was saddened (though not surprised) to read that the Justice Department opposes net neutrality saying that it could “hamper development of the internet.” While it may seem counter-intuitive to me, they argue that allowing ISPs to provide different levels of service/speed for different content will benefit consumers. They did promise to “continue to monitor and enforce any anticompetitive conduct to ensure a competitive broadband marketplace” — not that anyone was worried about that.”
Has the DOJ looked around lately ? there is No competition , and with opposing network neutrality it would only dig this hole further. Now, if you have not traveled out the US you will not realize how badly companies have hamstringed US broadband. First off DSL which rather than upgrade to fiber the companies would rather use existing infrastructure thats aging beyond its years. years back there was an inititave that was suppose to have the US on fiber but that dissapeared. (google 200 billion rip off to find out about that). all this talk about having a “high” and “low” speed lane on the internet they want to create. ITS ALREADY HERE. Look around, low speed lanes. AOL, People PC, Net zero , etc. high speed lanes COX HSI , Verizon Fios(limited areas) , comcast , etc.
Anyways getting back to limited point of view. if you have never been outside the US , you would not believe the speed options you have , In sweden for example – For less than $20 a month you have 100mb up and 100mb down speeds. which is currently 25times faster than most ISP’s in the US , and I do discredit speedboost and light speed or whatever the hell its called because its only a speed burst.
Other counties have no problems devoloping there Internet why should we have any problem unless lobbying gets in the way…….
Strangeness with Mp3 players.
late night conversation of Strangeness
[00:30:44 AM] Mike: http://www.anythingbutipod.com/archives/2007/05/smell-my-data-port.php what the fuck?
[00:31:34 AM] Jeff Ski: lol
[00:31:46 AM] Mike: that’s what you have right ?
[00:32:12 AM] Jeff Ski: lol .. it does kinda smell like bubble gum
[00:32:19 AM] Mike: lmao wtf
[00:32:37 AM] Mike: strange……….
Just read the link to understand this one…
Warm Weather is here!
its may but Its a warm May cause its had few days already in the 80s . I’m wondering how warm this summer is going to be.