So back to our friends at Taverna Greek Grill, they sent me another email just now with a phone number (yaaaay!), however a visit to their website proves to be an exercise in frustration. Everything opens up in its own new window…please people I know what the back button is, or just have a link …
Monthly Archive: December 2011
Dec 26
Happy Holidays and the Phantom Update
Overall a good holiday weekend/Monday. My daughter loved her presents, wife is happy with the play we are going to see in January at the CandleLight Playhouse and the holiday party with some friends of mine in Fort Morgan was a blast! However one thing annoyed me over the weekend, when I was training my …
Dec 19
Horrible Internet Advertising, Round one…
So I get an email from Taverna Greek Grill in Fort Collins, a favorite Greek Restaurant in Fort Collins whose mailing list I subscribe to (so it’s not a spam) inviting me to their New Years eve celebration, a “Ticket Only Event”. However this email: Fails to give me any clue on how to book …
Dec 18
Net Neutrality, My Take
Net neutrality has become a hot issue on the Internet. For those catching up, it’s the discussion over bandwidth providers rights over their network vs. the perceived need to be “neutral” or that we should be allowed to access everything on the Internet, and carriers should not be allowed to block anything except with our …
Dec 17
Rewards Cards, Do They Make you Spend More at the Grocery Store?
So I’m at King Soopers today (our local grocery store), being the nosy one that I am I glance at an employee bulletin that shows how much more people spend with rewards cards, it turns out according to them it’s quite a bit more. Up to 33%! Not bad money… With me I don’t think …
Dec 11
And this is why E-Books will never take off
So I was looking at buying this book: http://bit.ly/xdKucD Google Books: $29 (dropping decimals) Amazon (PaperBack): $27 – not counting shipping which is $4 if you’re a non-prime customer or free if you’re a prime customer like I am Amazon: Kindle: $25 – and I don’t have a kindle Thank you for $2 less I’d …
Dec 09
Toastmasters, Sharepoint Best Practices and other goodies…
So yesterday I went to my first Toastmasters meeting in Denver. Fun bunch, gives you lots of opportunities for public speaking. Even I got an opportunity when given a pair of Ski Goggles and Miners Helmet and told to improvise a 2 minute speech on how they can help with your holiday shopping. I had a …
Dec 07
Ooogha, me talk pretty one day….
So I’ve been told enough that I need to work on my oral communications skills a bit and that Toastmasters would be a good thing. After searching Loveland Toastmaster options and seeing none that fall at convenient meeting times (6:30am?) I opted for a Denver one tomorrow with more convenient meeting times. But at any …
Dec 03
Amazing what the Internet Still Holds
So I googled myself just for grins like I do on occasion today, it’s amazing what the Internet holds on you…old newsgroup postings, etc… This one in particular amazed me: http://froggykitty.tripod.com/ccc/id1.html This is a class project (CIS 406) from nearly 10 years ago. What is THAT still doing out there…intriguing to see where my programming capabilities …
Dec 02
Christmas Lights….aaaarrrrgggghhh….
So this weekend is probably going to be time for my annual holiday tradition, yup the Christmas lights on the house. It’s bad enough that I need to ascend heights with a ladder and staple gun; worse that I have to do it with one outdoor plug in the back of my house that can’t …
