Well last night I was doing some work and I was a bit hungry, but didn’t want to make anything. Luckily there is a Sheetz 2 minutes from my place. So I decided to go over there and get a MTO. MTO’s are great, I usually get a 12-inch steak hoagie with double meat, double cheese, and bacon. Anyways while waiting for them to make my hoagie I went over to get something to drink. I really did not feel like pop or an energy drink so I figured I’d get a water. I would normally pickup a Fiji, but looking over at the water section there was VOSS! I was like, “What the…”. Usually you only find VOSS in high class restaurants, hotels, casinos, etc. Now they are selling it at Sheetz?
It was not VOSS Glass, which comes in a glass bottle, it was VOSS Red that comes in a plastic bottle. Of course you know I picked it up! It was $1.59 for the small bottle (pictured above) and $2.29 for larger bottle. As far as taste goes it was still awesome, but not as good as the glass version. I don’t even think any restaurants in Pittsburgh serve VOSS. I guess I will have to wait till Vegas for that.
Well this was a great deal! A ReviewMe review on JohnChow.com is $400! A Text Link is $240! So how did I manage to get a link in his latest post? I bought him a beer! John just installed the Buy Me a Beer WordPress plugin. You can see it at the far bottom of the right column of his site. All it is, is a link to paypal. He suggests $3 for a beer and $7.50 for a pitcher. I decided to buy him a beer for $3. He made a post for the people that bought him a beer with links to everyone blogs / websites. This will give me some good traffic and it only cost me $3! The only other way to get a link back like that on JohnChow.com is to write a review, and that takes time. Paying $3 is much easier!
If you want to get the buy me a beer wordpress plugin you can get it here. I might install it on here, but no one would buy me a beer!
When I first heard of this I was a bit wary, but I guess it seems to be working for me, although I’m not really sure. I know most of you have heard of Facebook. If you haven’t it is the less spam version of Myspace that allows you to connect with old classmates from college and high school. Facebook has a feature called Notes, which is much like a blog type system. You can post notes and all of your friends will see them in the recent notes section. This is cool and everything, but I have my own blog and I don’t want to write posts twice.
So how does this increase your RSS subscriber account? Well every time someone reads one of your notes that are counted as a subscriber. Since implementing the system I have seen a 10-15 reader increase in my RSS. This is really easy to setup and even if it does not help you out a lot it still lets all of your friends from school know what you are up to.
Thanks to Michael for the tip!
Well Ashley has talked about getting a dog for a while. I just said ok thinking she would never get one. Yesterday she came home with a puppy! It is an 10 week old Yorkshire Terrier. Ashley named it Teddy. I can’t believe how small it is, it’s smaller than both of our cats. So now we have 2 cats and 1 dog. So far the cats have gotten along pretty well with the new puppy. We will see how things go.
Finally someone took a hint and put an iPod dock into a keyboard! The Razer Pro|Type is the first keyboard with an integrated iPod dock. Razer was nice enough to send me one to review on ThinkComputers. You can check my review out here. Besides the iPod dock Apple fans will love the all white look. Also gamers will enjoy the keyboard because it has 10 programmable hot keys and up to 10 different profiles so in reality you have 100 programmable hot keys! Enjoy the review.
The Pro|Type is actually based on the Tarantula keyboard, which is focused more towards gamers, so if you don’t need the iPod dock and don’t like the all white design of the Pro|Type the Tarantula is a great keyboard. The Pro|Type is very hard to find right now. It only started shipping on April 9th so I would it to be available more places by mid June. You can order it directly from Razer for $129.99. Make sure you check out my review!
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