While reading the history of ICanHasCheezburger.com i found out that they run a site call engrishfunny.com. You know, all those funny foreign mis-used words. They have an RSS feed, which is great. I had tried to get one from engrish.com a few weeks back. I did eventually find one that some guy had built by doing screen scraping. But it is nice when a site actually plans for the RSS feed, or RSS Food as is the case with engrishfunny.com!
Check out the screen shots associated with this article: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2327429,00.asp
“New gOS”, so I guess if you rip off Mac OSX you can call it “New” now. Come on Google, I thought you were supposed to be an industry leader….give me something “New”.
At your typical .com office, you have a bunch of people who sit around and work on computers all day. Over the years this leads to many people carrying some extra baggage. InternetSafety.com is no exception.
So back in May the idea was hatched to run a “Biggest Loser” style competition at our office. We split up into teams of 3 (with an optional 4th person as a coach) and participation was 100% voluntary. Each person would set a goal weight, which would be combined into a team goal.
The winning team would be the one that came the closest to their goal or exceeded. The company put up $250 per person for the winning team, and $100 per person for the second place team. We ended up with 5 teams:
Fatty McButterPants.
Gut Busters.
Butter Halves (was supposed to be Better Halves, but there was a typo, this team is wives of some of the employees)
I Can See My Feet!
Interdimensionally Transcendental (supposedly means bigger on the inside than the out).
The competition ends on Tuesday. While the first and second place teams will take away cold hard cash, overall it has been a great success, with hundreds of pounds of weight lost across our office. Everyone who has lost weight, and gotten a little healthier is a winner. Or executive leadership is really excited about it. Everyone is so slim we can give them smaller cubes now!
I personally have lost about 25 pounds. I didn’t really consider myself “overweight” before the competition, but am very happy with the results.
This week was the 4th week I have spent in San Francisco so far this year. The amazing thing to me, is that there is still new stuff to find. Some cool stuff I found this time:
Taylor Street Coffee - A little hole in the wall breakfast place, really great food, and a unique charm to the place.
Taqueria La Cumbre - The birthplace of the “Mission” style burrito. Ate here on Wednesday since I wasn’t in town to BBG as usual.
ATT Park - Got to watch the Braves whoop up on the Giants.
Japan Town - Cool Japanese Shopping Mall, and a cool furniture store where I could have dropped a ton of money.
Ok, so I have a question to pose to my readers about blog spam. There is this guy named Luke Gilkerson, who is on the payroll at Covenant Eyes (a competitor to InternetSafety.com) who is paid to go around blogging about their products. As you know I started a new Internet Filtering Blog.
About a week ago Luke posts a comment on this post: Number of URL’s In An Internet Filter Database: Does It Matter?
Filtering is a great tool, but it’s not the only kind of software out there. Have you ever heard of accountability software? Accountability software is specifically for adults who want to guard where they go online without any blocking or filtering. Combined with filtering, it’s a great Internet safety solution for the whole family. If you want more info about it check out my post “Is Filtering All There Is?â€? - http://www.covenanteyes.com/blog​/2008/06/12/is-filtering-all-the​ re-is-introducing-accountability​-software/​ Also, check out - http://www.blog.cantufind.com/20​08/06/24/covenant-eyes/​
The a week later he comes back and posts another comment on this post: New Consumer Internet Filter - Livia Web Protection
Filtering is a great tool, but it’s not the only kind of software out there. Have you ever heard of accountability software? Accountability software is specifically for adults who want to guard where they go online without any blocking or filtering. Combined with filtering, it’s a great Internet safety solution for the whole family. If you want more info about it check out my post “Is Filtering All There Is?â€? - http://www.covenanteyes.com/blog​/2008/06/12/is-filtering-all-the​ re-is-introducing-accountability​-software/​ Also, check out - http://www.blog.cantufind.com/20​08/06/24/covenant-eyes/​
Same exact comment on two posts within a week. I had seen this same post on another blog, so I dug around online, and found the same post on these other sites. Sometimes he will add a sentence to the beginning of it.
Blog Mommas
Parental Tech
The Other Criminal
José MarÃa Gómez Hidalgo’s Blog
Yahoo! Anecdotal
Gowanus Lounge
Laura Earnest’s Blog
Christina Quick’s Blog
Keeping Kids Safe Today
Real Life Solutions
Topix
Ed Tech
Bill Mullins’ Blog
Your Fun Family
Ronald Daniar’s Blog
So my question for you all, is do you think this is blog spam? Please leave a comment and let me know what you think.
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