We dropped into Steamy’s yesterday to give it a shot. Steamy’s is a new-ish restaurant on Quinpool road in Halifax. There’s been a bit of an influx of new restaurants there so my wife wants to check them out to see what their deal is.
So the food at Steamy’s is meant to give [...]
Entries from May 30th, 2009
Steamy’s Restaurant
May 30th, 2009 · 12 Comments · Halifax
Tags: restaurant
Scientific Fraud
May 25th, 2009 · 14 Comments · Rants
Often times, I read or hear about studies that are misleading, especially when related to drugs. Take for example the piece that I wrote about last year which suggested that you can die (actually it’s just increasing your potential rate of heart attack or stroke by 30%) from smoking marijuana (to the tune of [...]
Tags: science
iContact
May 23rd, 2009 · 11 Comments · Web Development
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So you’ve built your fabulous double-opt-in mailing list, have a bunch of people who are interested to hear what you have to say and are set to get started. Now what?
Well obviously, you’re going to have something to say to these people and that’s great, but if you look to your website as a [...]
Tags: email
Yet Another Election
May 18th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Rants
I’ll be honest. I’m getting tired of this.
To frame this a little, I’m a politically passionate, hopelessly deluded individual who thinks that people can effect change within their government through the simple act of voting. But with minority governments at both the federal and provincial levels, we have gone through more elections in [...]
Tags: government·Nova Scotia
Monetizing An RSS Feed – Fail #1
May 12th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Web Development
So I’ve been looking for ways to extract some amount of revenue out of this blog. There’s a trickle coming in, but it’s not much and my hobbies are getting increasingly expensive.
A few months ago, I noticed that Google was offering ads that could be delivered via your RSS feed. I had a [...]
Tags: blogs·monetization
84444.com
May 5th, 2009 · 26 Comments · Topics Of Interest
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84444.com is operated by a mobile marketing company named Advanced Tele. So what’s a mobile marketing company? No, it’s not a marketing company operated out of the back of a van, it’s a company that’s geared towards marketing on mobile devices.
Have you seen the ads on TV that offer you a chance to [...]
Tags: advertising·mobile computing