This looks really cool! http://www.google.com/goog411/
Google has a free service that lets you call a toll-free number (1-800-GOOG-411), give the automated service your location, and a business or category to search for, and it will connect you to the business. Sounds good to me.
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Get Satisfaction
I just ran across a Web site that's a cross between a social community site and a customer service site. I don't think I've seen a site exactly like this before and I wish I had thought of it. There are lots of sites where you can ask questions or interact with a community, of course, but I think this is the first one I've seen that's supposed to be specifically for customer service.
Here's the link: http://getsatisfaction.com/
Let me know what you think, and I hope you get some satisfaction. :-)
Later,
Rick
Here's the link: http://getsatisfaction.com/
Let me know what you think, and I hope you get some satisfaction. :-)
Later,
Rick
Monday, February 18, 2008
Keep on Bloggin'
I need to get in the habit of posting to this blog and there are a few things I can think of right now to blog about but I don't really have the time to do it right now.
I thought I would at least post a list of topics that I plan to blog about as soon as I get a chance to:
Let me know if you're particularly interested in any of these things and I'll give you more info right away.
Later,
Richard
I thought I would at least post a list of topics that I plan to blog about as soon as I get a chance to:
- Lilac festival in Rochester NY (this happens every spring and is really nice if you like flowering stuff).
- Moving in with my girlfriend.
- Getting into stock trading by reading Toni Turner's book A Beginner's Guide to Day Trading (I got an account at ScotTrade.)
- Having on of my pictures that I've uploaded to Flickr picked to be in an online travel guide called Schmap. I don't know if my photos made the final cut but it's kinda exciting just to have one of my pictures selected.
- A cruise my girlfriend and I went on to the western Carribean last year.
- A trip we went on to Costa Rica a couple years ago (she likes to go on trips and not your run-of-the-mill cheap vacations either, so I'm sure I'll have lots of those to report on).
- Tubing at Sugar Mountain ski resort.
Let me know if you're particularly interested in any of these things and I'll give you more info right away.
Later,
Richard
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Happy Valentine's Day!!!
I just thought I'd wish everyone a Happy Valentine's Day!!!
The servers at Hallmark.com were having a bad day today. I've never seen them so messed up. I had a hard time sending eCards but I didn't have anything better to do except work and I was persistent, so I managed to send out a few.
Later,
Rick
The servers at Hallmark.com were having a bad day today. I've never seen them so messed up. I had a hard time sending eCards but I didn't have anything better to do except work and I was persistent, so I managed to send out a few.
Later,
Rick
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Groundhog Day
I mentioned Groundhog Day to some guys at work the other day and they didn't seem to know what I was talking about. I was really surprised because I thought everyone knew what Groundhog Day was. One of the guys is from The Sudan, so it's understandable that he wouldn't know about it. I doubt they have Groundhog Day in Sudan -- maybe Camel Day, but not Groundhog Day.
Another guy is from West, by God, Virginia. He said they *hunt* groundhogs there. By the way, I noticed that the republicans in W Va voted for Huckabee in their primary the other day, bless their hearts.
Here are some links to info about Groundhog Day, in case you're from The Sudan or West Virginia, or just haven't heard about it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundhog_Day
http://www.groundhog.org/
There was a movie called Groundhog Day too.
Later,
Rick
Another guy is from West, by God, Virginia. He said they *hunt* groundhogs there. By the way, I noticed that the republicans in W Va voted for Huckabee in their primary the other day, bless their hearts.
Here are some links to info about Groundhog Day, in case you're from The Sudan or West Virginia, or just haven't heard about it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundhog_Day
http://www.groundhog.org/
There was a movie called Groundhog Day too.
Later,
Rick
Who Knew Productivity Could Be Fun?
While I was Christmas shopping last holiday season, I ran across some little notebooks at a Border's store that caught my attention. They're called Moleskines. Most of them are just notebooks or sketchbooks of different sizes -- some have blank pages, some have ruled pages and some have square-ruled pages like graph paper. There are also Moleskine city guides for some major cities around the world, that contain maps and info about the city etc. The Border's store had a whole rack just for the Moleskine notebooks and I was intrigued by them. I walked away from the rack once but went back to it and picked up a notebook and examined it like the Monkeys in 2001: A Space Odyssey examining the monolith.
After I left the store, I searched the Internet for Moleskine and found links that led me to a whole world of productivity and self-improvement that I never knew existed before. First I found a link to a blog called 43 Folders that has info about productivity and mentions a book by David Allen called Getting Things Done (GTD). I didn't realize that there was so much info out there about getting things done.
43 Folders isn't updated frequently, although much more than this blog will be, I'm sure. The blog is also geared towards Mac users and even though I've used Macs, I don't currently own one so I don't find this blog as useful as another one I discovered on my journey into productivity called Lifehacker.
Lifehacker claims to contain, "tips and downloads for getting things done." Lifehacker seems to be updated frequently and contains tips on a wide variety of subjects and links to downloads for both Macs and PCs.
One of the best sites I've found in the realm of productivity is http://www.rememberthemilk.com. At Remember The Milk you can create to-do lists or really any kind of list. It will integrate with a few different calendars, I think, like Google Calendar. I've found that it's a great way to keep track of your monthly bills.
Although I'll probably spend a lot of time making lists and checking them twice, I think all of this info I've found might actually help me be more productive and not less. Speaking of which, I guess I should do some work now.
Later,
Rick
After I left the store, I searched the Internet for Moleskine and found links that led me to a whole world of productivity and self-improvement that I never knew existed before. First I found a link to a blog called 43 Folders that has info about productivity and mentions a book by David Allen called Getting Things Done (GTD). I didn't realize that there was so much info out there about getting things done.
43 Folders isn't updated frequently, although much more than this blog will be, I'm sure. The blog is also geared towards Mac users and even though I've used Macs, I don't currently own one so I don't find this blog as useful as another one I discovered on my journey into productivity called Lifehacker.
Lifehacker claims to contain, "tips and downloads for getting things done." Lifehacker seems to be updated frequently and contains tips on a wide variety of subjects and links to downloads for both Macs and PCs.
One of the best sites I've found in the realm of productivity is http://www.rememberthemilk.com. At Remember The Milk you can create to-do lists or really any kind of list. It will integrate with a few different calendars, I think, like Google Calendar. I've found that it's a great way to keep track of your monthly bills.
Although I'll probably spend a lot of time making lists and checking them twice, I think all of this info I've found might actually help me be more productive and not less. Speaking of which, I guess I should do some work now.
Later,
Rick
Hello Blogger World!
I haven't felt like working lately and I can use a break anyway, so I've been spending a lot of time surfing the Web and trying to find better things to do than work.
I saw a link to Blogger just now and thought I'd create a blog to post random stuff to. I have Movable Type installed on a computer at home and I've used that for blogging in the past but one of my computers is down so I think that blog's out of commission for now. This blog will probably have more features and look better anyway.
I'll end this post before it gets too boring. I'll make a couple more quick posts before I try to make myself do some work.
Later,
Rick
I saw a link to Blogger just now and thought I'd create a blog to post random stuff to. I have Movable Type installed on a computer at home and I've used that for blogging in the past but one of my computers is down so I think that blog's out of commission for now. This blog will probably have more features and look better anyway.
I'll end this post before it gets too boring. I'll make a couple more quick posts before I try to make myself do some work.
Later,
Rick
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