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Posts from September 2006

The End of the RAZR Craze?

I don’t often get too excited about cellphones–mostly because there is always something I do not like about the ones that Verizon carries. In New England, you really only have to choose from Verizon and T-Mobile. And since most people have Verizon, and you can talk to other Verizon users for free, the choice is [...]


Gatemen of Cape League Ready for Next Season

Out of all the teams in the Cape League, the Wareham Gatemen are the first to have their 2007 roster online. Yes, there are eight months, three weeks, fall and spring season baseball, a Major League Baseball draft, and a Cape Cod winter to go through before CCBL ’07, and Wareham has already posted a [...]


Valid XHTML for YouTube Videos

My blog is valid XHTML, but ever since I started posting YouTube videos it was not validating. Today I discovered some solutions. For WordPress users, “Viper007″ created a plugin called Vipers-Video-Quicktags. This plugin allows you to post the valid code from various video sites just buy knowing the video’s ID. For WordPress.com users, there is [...]


A Trip Down Memory Lane with Mahir Çağrı

PC World is not always a reputable source, but I did like their rundown of the 25 Worst Websites. One that I forgot about was Mahir Çağrı’s homepage. Mahir became an Internet celebrity in 1999 with his homepage full of broken English and photos of himself. The original version was hosted on Xoom (an extinct [...]


Barnstable Village Haunted Tour

Driving down 6A on Friday I noticed I sign that said “Haunted Tour 7pm” at Sturgis Library. So, I showed up at 7pm, along with a few other folks. At 7pm, a black Honda Element drove into the library parking lot, and out came Derek Bartlett. Derek is president and founder of the Cape and [...]


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