I ran across this service through a link shared by my cousin Trevor. Fancy Hands is a service that allows you to have a personal assistant for $30/month by sourcing it to the cloud. It goes beyond the step of just getting information for free on the Internet and actually has someone do things for you. I wonder what accent your personal assistant will have, because they’re sure not going to use American labor for this. Sanjay, Ping, or Shamus will have to do for making my plans.
Let me know if you try this out and how you like the service. I’d be curious. I don’t need this service, because I’m getting married. I have a personal assistant, chef, and maid.
I’ve been keeping some form of blog for about ten years, way back when I had to edit HTML by hand and upload it every time I made a change. Back then it wasn’t even called a blog; it was just called a website, and I was the only one that really kept a personal one amongst my friends. I was kind of the (Internet) world.
Then came Michelle, and by comparison I got a lot less cool. I bet 80% of my readers are actually her readers first. I get the collateral traffic. Take today for instance. The day isn’t even over, and she’s spiked my traffic just like she did five days ago.
I guess I’ll just have to stick with being the cool one in real life.
Google just made clear it’s stance on national broadband. I agree with Eric Schmidt and his giant company. Let’s bring our countries infrastructure up to speed and jump start our economy. Maybe then I will get my flying car…
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I always joke about riding Michelle’s coat tails to fame and glory, but it’s absolutely true. Take a look at my stats over the last thirty days. A single mention more than triples my daily traffic. This isn’t even close to her full audience, just the small fraction that can stomach my offensive rants and is willing to click through.
How do you save money? Do you save money? I read your blogs and wonder, “How much money do these people make at their jobs to be able to roll in style all the time? I wonder if they’re saving up money to buy homes.”
Where is the money saving guide on night life? Maybe I need to stop worrying about saving up for the future and live now. How do you do it?
Cox is my ISP, and they provide great service when everything’s working. Their support, however, is quit lacking.
Tonight I found myself needing to recover a password for my mom. I waited in the queue for twenty minutes for the account representative to chat with me. Half way through the chat, the support representative left the chat room, came back in, and then signed out and closed the chat. No answer to my question. They didn’t even send a chat transcript to my email.
Suck it, Cox Internet.
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If you clicked to my website because of the title, you are going to be sorely disappointed. Well maybe you won’t be if you are a huge nerd. Ars Technica is running an article about Internet ready televisions getting access to an optimized Flash for HD content. Today is the day we start to ditch cable and make all data and media Internet based. If only we could get those assholes at the ISPs to stop looking at bandwidth caps and bandwidth throttling as a legitimate means to earn more money so we can deliver more content via means like this.
I’ve been writing something every day for about two weeks now and my readership is way up, reaching last week’s peak of sixty seven visitors in one day. That’s not bad for someone that writes about random ideas that float into his head. I was feeling pretty good about it all and then Michelle tweeted this. One nod from michellewoo.com and my daily traffic doubled. I’ve had a website for over eleven years. Two years in the game and she’s already surpassed me ten fold.
I can’t say I’m the cool one in the relationship anymore. I don’t think I ever was, but this concrete proof is just a slap in the face. I’ll just have to resort to being the sexy, smart, funny one. You win some. You lose some.
My parents are very generous people. Their successes in life are definitely due in part to their work ethic, but there is also an element of just being in the right place at the right time. For this they are very grateful and so they share their prosperity. Don’t get me wrong here. My parents are not sitting on piles of cash and diamonds, but the amount of money they put into charity would shame most of us. It’s probably more than a lot of us earn in a year.
I’d like to think they have rubbed off on me quite a bit in this area. Giving is in my nature. I don’t have a whole lot of money, but if I can give a couple hours of my time or the shirt off my back I would. Still, there are some places where a man must draw the line.
My parents watch a Korean television station for one particular drama, which I think takes place in feudal Korea. It’s funny because we’re not Korean and they rely solely on the English subtitles, about which my dad has said, ” I don’t really read those. I can get the gist of what’s going on with the tones.” At first it was all fine and dandy. I would give up the television as the hour approached. That’s what sharing is about, but now it’s been taken too far.
Both my parents have found the show streaming online. My Internet usage comes to a crawl when their marathon viewing sessions take place. They don’t even watch together on the same computer. They will sit in different rooms watching the show, using twice as much bandwidth. Do you know how hard it is to pirate new albums before they hit the shelves or full length feature films before their theater release when you have two computers streaming video on your network? Just kidding RIAA and MPAA.
Everyone has had a shower where there just isn’t enough water pressure. This is just like that, only slightly more serious. My files are stuck to me, not able to be rinsed away. It’s beginning to sting in my eyes. I’m not crying! I have soap in my eyes!
I could rewrite the firewall rules so they can’t connect to the site at the same time, or maybe this is my cue to check into Internet rehab.
You haven’t seen much online activity from me lately. For the past three days I have been training a new employee to fill my position in the office. Unfortunately, once I have him trained, I will be taking on more management affairs as well as moving into outside sales. My rule over the Internet may have finally come to an end. So this is the impending doom that is being grownup. It sucks. Maybe I should be training this new guy to handle my Internet duties. I could have a ghost blogger. He could also manage my instant messages and Twitter. It’s not like the writing quality would go down. How could it possibly get any worse?
Hello, there. My name is Matt, but on this website I just refer to myself as m@. I love all things Star Wars, food, beer, and music, especially The Beatles. I'm one who likes to be noticed and will sometimes say or do inappropriate things to get your attention. I'm perfectly complimented by my online and real life partner