Things That ... Make You Go HmmTechnology, music, video, art, news, reviews and muse on the webMariners are in race to see who gets 100 losses first- September 20, 2008 Not sure what there is to be excited about in the Mariners race to having $100+ million payroll and being a mere 6 games away from an abysmal 100+ loss season, but I find myself tuning in to root for them to please, please, please not lose. They play 9 more games and can only ...http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20080920/5454/ Shatner uses YouTube to explain why he wont be in J.J Abrams first Star Trek movie- September 20, 2008 I&8217;ve seen YouTube used by many people for many different reasons. Can honestly say it was a first this morning (credit James) seeing someone like William Shatner &8212; it&8217;s Captain Kirk, man! &8212; using it to tell the world why he is not going to be in the next Star Trek motion picture. Or maybe ...http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20080920/5451/ Uh oh, some financial websites are having FAIL whale problems- September 19, 2008 If you thought Twitter was bad with their fail whale messages, at least Twitter doesn&8217;t have a hold on any of your money. This morning I can&8217;t login to my accounts at Zecco or Sharebuilder. Why not Good ole&8217; &34;Technical difficulties.&34; Meanwhile a friend is also having trouble accessing his broker services (which aren&8217;t the same ...http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20080919/5449/ GiftGirl might help some guys with girl gift ideas- September 17, 2008 Being our 19th wedding anniversary this Friday, I&8217;m in the shopping mode. Can&8217;t write about what I&8217;m doing for my wife as she reads this blog and would see the telegraph. Will say that I won&8217;t be buying her anything through GiftGirl. The idea behind GiftGirl is straightforward: just pick options from a dropdown menu ...http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20080917/5444/ Dooblet as find alternatives search- September 16, 2008 Thanks dooblet for reminding me that I can&8217;t be replaced Don&8217;t think I&8217;m on some ego trip, you can&8217;t be replaced either. Fortunately you can find replacements for common things like car model, software name, music group, technology names and more. If you don&8217;t like the results, you can &34;discuss alternatives&34; in the ...http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20080916/5441/ See yourself with yearbook hair styles spanning several eras and styles- September 12, 2008 My friend Lestat shared YearbookYourself saying: &34;I can see you doing this.&34; He was right. You need to do a better job lining up the size of your face than me. I got the angle right, but not enough face which made me look like Yul Bryner in Westworld when his robot face is taken ...http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20080912/5436/ iTunes 8 Genius feature makes music exploration fun- September 11, 2008 Yesterday I spent too much time getting my music organized in iTunes on the Mac so that the new iTunes &8216;Genius&8217; would not suggest to me music I already own. Probably won&8217;t bother trying iTunes for Windows, &8220;bloated&8221; or with unintentional or intentional problems as some folks are suggesting, as I&8217;ve been happily using Zune ...http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20080911/5431/ Remembering 911 victims on every directory page including home page- September 11, 2008 Repeating the tradition started last year by showing randomly rotated victims from 911 on pages at Hmm. This year instead of flying in the header section, the victims are being randomly displayed on every directory page, including the home page above the first post. Will be leaving these up there for at least the next ...http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20080910/5414/ Another subpar online music purchase customer experience- September 10, 2008 Remember me writing last week about my negative customer experience with CD Baby This morning Don Dokken made it so I could only buy his second solo album Solitary ($9.99, been available online since Feb 2008) through the service Snocap via dokkenstore.com. Didn&8217;t go through as many screenshot motions as I did with CD Baby, ...http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20080910/5411/ Limited utility can get your iPhone app rejected by Apple- September 8, 2008 Apple is flexing their quality control muscle by rejecting applications based on &34;limited utility.&34; This, no doubt, a knee jerk response to pulling the expensive iPhone application I Am Rich and spawns a rejection of another app called Pull My Finger. I&8217;m sure there are plenty more what many might call stupid, pointless, worthless applications ...http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20080908/5406/ |