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Entries for January, 2010

Curating Civility on The Deets

A friend of mine commented to me the other day that he gets a kick out of comments on The Deets where anonymous commenters tell me I should get a life, a job, a girlfriend, out of the basement, etc. Like him, I get a kick out of stuff like that, so let those comments [...]

The Benefit of Losing Power

We woke up to a 48F household this morning due to our power going out at around 4am. I crawled back under the covers while brushing my teeth. That was a first. On the plus side, check out the energy savings reported on our Google PowerMeter: I think we saved 10 cents! Maybe we could [...]

The Value of Various Website Referrers

To me, it’s interesting to look at how traffic from different sources behaves on The Deets. Below you’ll find three lists that break down the sources of traffic for three different actions people often take on this site: Subscribe, Comment, or Click on an Ad (AdSense, specifically). This represents Q4 2009. While there is some [...]

If It’s Bad News It’s STILL a Northwest Flight

Yesterday, I pointed out that Delta appeared to be dumping bad news concerning their airline of the Northwest Airlines brand. At the time, some comments mentioned that Northwest officially was going away at midnight. Here we are in 2010 with our first negative Delta news, attributed to . . . Northwest Airlines. Old habits die [...]

Run Minneapolis: 26th Street

Back on a pre-snowfall November 28th, I crossed Minneapolis on 26th and 28th Streets. But first, I picked off a few streets South of that route to get things started. El Norteno is one of my favorite Mexican restaurants in the city. Very friendly service. Authentic food. Awesome. The only person to give the place [...]

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