Bummer - I use this service quite often. Paypal is one of the great things that’s come out of the internet. I received this email from them today:
We are writing to let you know that PayPal’s BillPay service will be discontinued in early August, 2005. If you currently use BillPay, you will need [...]

There’s been speculation that Google uses the term “Public Beta” a little loosly. If you think about it - it’s gmail service was unveiled in a beta fashion. No hype, just word of mouth and folks touting the service. About a year later it’s one of the most popular free email providers [...]

Do yourself a favor and go install Adaware and Free AVG, before a virus or 500 spyware tools install themselves on your computer. Adaware has been a savoir more times than I can count. I’ve set it up on my parent’s computer and run it at least once every two weeks, as unbeknown [...]

This is really freaking cool:
webaccelerator.google.com
Google caches the web already, and they’ve got amazingly good net connections with amazingly fast web servers. Now you too can harness the POWER OF GOOGLE! By installing this browser plug-in you can access pages through Google’s cache instead of from the server the site your browsing is served [...]

I love friendster. I haven’t always felt this way. The service struggled with slow servers, timeouts, and errors for a couple of years. Now they seem to have finally gotten their act together and put together a quality product. It’s getting better all the time. My rommmate only has a [...]

What’s up with the ‘net these days? The other day the MS Office website was on the fritz, and now Blogger! Granted, Blogger tends to have a bit of a reputation for this stuff, but it’s owned by Google - presumably, one of the most reliable websites in the nether … so what’s [...]

I guess it happens to the largest of websites. I snapped this screen grab last week - it was a weekday in the middle of the afternoon:

Had a rather manic day - meaning I haven’t had breakfast yet. Instead of bitching about it, I’m just going to recap some interesting things I’ve been exposed to today:

This little bugger is a wireless webcam. It’ll stream video, snap pictures on a timer and email them to you, or just act as [...]

I came across a neat online tool that allows you to build blog buttons - you know those little 80×15 pixel images that link to other sites like I have listed in my sidebar? It’s called the “Button Maker” and I just LOVE it! Here’s a button I made for my site:

Now go [...]

I tried it once and got 113 wpm.

Time your typing.