http://www.timjanderson.com Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:53:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For those of you who don't know me well enough in my personal life, I have recently married and with that temporarily moved to Nashville, TN while Kate (my wife) finishes up Grad school.  We plan to switch over our wedding site, www.timandkateanderson.com from what it is now, to more of a ... http://www.timjanderson.com/archives/married-and-moved --This deal only applies if you shop at Kroger, have Kroger Fueling stations and have the right cards for the scenario about to be described-- I'm a deal junkie and love finding the very best value.  Some of you may have heard that Kroger is offering a bonus if you buy ... http://www.timjanderson.com/archives/save-13-on-groceries-and-15-on-gas-at-kroger Some of you may have noticed a new sidebar area called 'Twitter Updates'. I could go through and try to explain what twitter is, but I'd probably end up confusing you. I'll let this very well thought out video explain it instead: There are quite a few of these ... http://www.timjanderson.com/archives/what-are-you-doing On Friday night we had a party to celebrate Nick's 23rd birthday. We invited a couple people over and ended up having a great time with our first party of the spring weather. Anyone who knows me knows I like to take pictures and document big events. ... http://www.timjanderson.com/archives/my-first-video-nicks-birthday-party Even if you are constantly getting charged the same ammount, it pays to double check what you're getting charged for. I've always been told this is a good practice and monthly, will check the charges for my credit cards, our utilities and whatever else. Usually for bills that ... http://www.timjanderson.com/archives/it-pays-to-check-your-bills So last night a couple of us were watching Ohio State in the semi-final of the NIT. I don't remember how it got brought up, but we started talking about Muddy Buddies. Gabe had never heard of such a creation ( I first called it Mud Buddies, which ... http://www.timjanderson.com/archives/muddy-buddies-apparently-the-world-does-not-know Your average Internet user for chat or IM programs will use their respective protocol's IM client. AIM for AOL Instant messenger. Windows Messenger for MSN. Gmail for Gtalk.. etc. For as long as I've had two separate IM protocol accounts (I think ICQ ... http://www.timjanderson.com/archives/diggin-digsby So watching the first round of tournament playoffs has shown some decent commercials. Two I really liked are from Nike and Air Jordan (same advertising agency?) The first has a Saul Williams track, so I might just be digging that. For those of you wondering, the song ... http://www.timjanderson.com/archives/cool-nike-air-jordan-commercials Mood:  Plenary Music:  Led Zeppelin – Houses of the Holy Iron & Wine – Woman King E.P. Fictional character Peter Griffin once said “you can’t eat all those hamburgers.”  Tim & I begged to differ as this Thursday we Venimus, Vidimus, Vicimus’d our way through a set of Wendy’s, McDonald's & Burger King ... http://www.timjanderson.com/archives/cheeseburger-challenge-a-newbs-guest-post A while back, after seeing commercials for Burger King offering their Double Cheeseburger for only $1, I made the comment that we should do a face off of the big 3 burger companies that offer double cheeseburgers for a buck. Newbs took that to heart, and today when I got ... http://www.timjanderson.com/archives/dollar-double-cheeseburger-challenge-extravoganza On Friday night, Kate wanted to take me out to dinner for my birthday.  We had both heard and seen a new Cameron Mitchell restaurant up at Polaris called Marcella's and decided that would be a fine choice to try out.  Reading briefly what type of place this was online, ... http://www.timjanderson.com/archives/marcellas-a-resaurant-review Last weekend my fair city of Columbus, OH received a record setting snow storm. Kate was up for the week, and was planning to head back to Nashville on Saturday, but ended up staying through Sunday because of how much snow we got. It was kinda fun to ... http://www.timjanderson.com/archives/the-great-ohio-blizzard-of-08 For maybe 2 years now, I use credit to pay for stuff 95% of the time.  It's convenient, it doesn't take up space, I can easily track my spending, I earn rewards, and since I pay off my balance each month, it doesn't cost me anything.  I usually carry around ... http://www.timjanderson.com/archives/stupid-pennies Of all things technology related that I enjoy researching, reading and just in general getting excited for, this is one I am very pumped about.  Huge strides in bandwidth, internet cost structures, and mobile computing will take place due to this singular event. Read up. http://www.timjanderson.com/archives/700-mhz-spectrum So there is a new radio station in town (Columbus) that many Columbus area TV viewers or drivers may have seen advertisements for. Its located at 106.7 and is also on the web. It is my new favorite FM station. One of the reasons it is so ... http://www.timjanderson.com/archives/new-radio-station