Gordaen's Blog

Yesterday, I posted a quick few paragraphs explaining that I’ve decided to do away with Feedburner. Rick Klau commented expressing interest in what caused me to be dissatisfied, so I’m following up on that with a basic analysis of what I liked and didn’t like about Feedburner.
What is it?
For those who don’t know, Feedburner [...]

With an approval rating hovering around 1/3, it’s fair to say the majority of Americans are displeased (if not enraged) by the Bush Administration. What I noticed tonight was how much everyone seems to be railing against him/them in various ways. The Simpsons made a few quips on the episode tonight (no idea [...]

I’ve decided to ditch Feedburner. Maybe I expected a little too much from it, but FB did not deliver to my satisfaction. Initially, I was rather skeptical of adding another piece to the puzzle, one more thing that can go wrong, but I was lured in with the promise of Analytics-like stats about [...]

For a few years now, I’ve done my taxes with Turbo Tax. If you go to the IRS site, you can select Free File and pick from one of the free sites, including Turbo Tax (assuming you’re not “well off”). Turbo Tax has always been good in the past, but this year they [...]

Every once in a while (well, most of the time) I waste my brain power on things that don’t really matter. The other day, I started thinking, “What starts trends?” A lot of trends are really stupid, so how do we go from thinking, “Wow, that guy is an idiot” to “Man, he [...]