Archive for September 8th, 2006
Friday, September 8th, 2006
Porres Coat of Arms
Yes, it’s true, my roots can be traced through Italy and back to nobles living in Spain (the Val de Porres). This is an image of my family crest. If you are feeling adventurous and your Castillian is up to snuff, you can read about the Porres name and history here or try using Babelfish [...]
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Friday, September 8th, 2006
Alexaholic
Found Alexaholic today…as described by the site: Alexaholic blends Alexa website traffic graphs with a lightweight ajax-enhanced interface to satisfy hard-core Alexa traffic chart junkies – aka Alexaholics. Webmasters, SEO/SEM specialists, and domain owners can compare and measure website statistics for up to five domains at once, switch traffic chart types and ranges without page [...]
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Friday, September 8th, 2006
Atari Plug’N'Play Keychains!
My friend Tom Simpson forwarded me this link today from ThinkGeek. As the title of this post describes, for $14.99 you can buy a mini-joystick keychain that includes actual Atari games. Joystick 1 – Asteroids and Millipede Joystick 2 – Centipede and Yar’s Revenge Paddle – Pong, Breakout, and Warlords Plug an included cord into [...]
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Friday, September 8th, 2006
US Open Mania!
I had the very fortunate opportunity to be invited to the US Open yesterday, where I remained for about 12 hours of tennis (and managed to get on the jumbotron a few times as well!). Saw Martina twice (women’s doubles, mixed doubles), men’s doubles, and both men’s quarterfinal matches (Haas/Davydenko, Federer/Blake). I was really excited [...]
