slamboard

Time zones are cool. I have a feeling some the scavenger hunters who are asleep right now will be frantically looking for this puzzle piece later today. Well, here it is.

hp hewlett packard
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I haven’t put any metrics on this new blog of mine, so I don’t have much idea about the traffic that these PPP puzzle pieces are generating. I appreciate the thank you comments.

In case anyone is curious about the name of this blog I will make a long story short. I got the domain with the idea of making a place where members of large forums could go off-site to vent about each other in an unmoderated arena. I don’t know if it would have caught on eventually, but the amount of spam that it drew became very unwieldy. So, that idea was shelved, but the site has some page rank and a catchy URL so I am going to blog about business and tech stuff here for the foreseeable future.

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I made my desperate bid to get a free HP digital camera from Ted Murphy at PayPerPost last month. They have given out all but one of the ten cameras that they had for that particular promotion. I don’t hold out much hope.

hp hewlett packard

$1000 can make hundreds of bloggers neglect personal hygiene and familial obligations to obsessively surf the net, or more specifically the PayPerPost rich layer of the Blogosphere for as many days as they choose to drag out the contest. That is good business. I think. The above puzzle pieces were posted just after midnight EST on January 25th, 2007.

The first thing I need to say is “I don’t have an Ipod.”

Now that I am looking at all the cool stuff that is available as add-ons, I am considering getting one.

Check out this thing that enables you to use your Ipod to record voices or live music or anything else.

With the low quality setting, you can record 51 hours of sound on your 8GB nano.

Having a huge hit song and then letting countless companies pay to use the hook in their ads is the way to go.

Some people think it is wrong. For instance Frank Zappa successfully prevented advertisers from using his music years after he was dead. Tom Waits said no thanks to an advertiser who then hired a Tom Waits impersonator to act in the ad. Tom sued their butts.

Randy Bachman gets text messages from his agent telling him that an advertiser wants to use “Takin’ Care of Business” every day.

He hardly ever says no.

Here is an interesting article about music copyright and the RIAA.