Car Insurance, costly but worth it
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Man I'm only 23 but I've have some pretty bad experiences with Car Insurance. My friend had to pay through the roof because he had a BMW and he's young, whereas my brother, a worse driver, paid less than 25% of his premium because he had a junker and a 4-door, maybe no one wanted to steal it. My dad also got a ticket and didn't have his insurance renewed and couldn't get his car back without having insurance, so it's not only expensive and needed. That's the breaks with Car Insurance. Too bad we're not in the UK, since Insure121 got a nice site with quotes on both Car Insurance and Home Insurance, we could've used it. They even got travel and pet insurance, so they got all the bases covered.
Check them out for your insurance needs, URL is www.insure121.com,
-Steve
Posted bySteve at 2:40 PM 1 comments
Tired - The in-season retraining pain
What is in-season retraining pain? It's the pain all Division 1 track runners feels after they've come back from Christmas or New Year's break and have to go through training again. I just slept for 4 hours during the middle of the day. I haven't done that in a while. I need to caught up on my CES coverage, there's really some good stuff on there, and of course MacWorld Expo start today.
I'm going to have some posts both of those, but until know let's hope my legs recover for afternoon practice.
-Steve
Posted bySteve at 2:23 PM 0 comments
Labels: Electronics, Track
Dating service in Boston!
Monday, January 08, 2007
After my little visit to Boston I realized how many younger people were actually living in Boston, it really is a college or young town. After seeing that first hand, I understand the need for dating services like The Post Club. The Post Club is the place to go for Boston Dating to meet, date or to even fall in love. They have a unique combo of personal and photo introductions, so you don't have to fear the dreaded "blind date" that everyone hates. I'd say check it out, you never know when you can find that special someone, especially in Boston, when it's so cold sometimes.
Enjoy!
-Steve
Posted bySteve at 2:50 PM 0 comments
Labels: Travel
The International CES show is underway!
If you guys don't know what CES is, then you're obviously not following technology, computing, electronics or anything related to those fields. CES is the Consumer Electronics Show, and it's held every year at the beginning of January in Las Vegas. It's the show for displaying your upcoming products, or launching new ideas, or flaunting what you've got. Big names like Bill Gates, Ed Zander (CEO of Motorola) and many others present Key Note speeches and introduce new products at the same time.
I was watching Bill Gates' keynote, pretty good, nothing spectacular, but I've been loving all the news from Engadget.com and to a lesser extend Gizmodo.com. I think if you're going to pick up a new electronic toy in the next little bit I'd check out their coverage. I'll post my interesting finds a bit later, but the 51gb HD-DVD looks promising right now.
Alright more later,
-Steve
Posted bySteve at 2:32 PM 0 comments
Labels: Electronics, Internet, Tech
To all you small business owners out there
Sunday, January 07, 2007
Many of the small business owners I know think that they can manage all their funds and payrolls all by themselves while running the business and taking care of all the other little things. Well soon enough they'll burn out, I've seen it happen to my friend's uncle, it'll happen to them. I say, why don't you let someone help you manage all your payroll and bookkeeping needs for you. AccountingParadise.com has a nice service out there for small business that need individual attention without the costs of hiring a huge accounting firm. It's much better then trying to use Microsoft Money or Quicken Books. If you're still not convinced check out this link on how they work to learn more about them, trust me it'll be work it and could save you a lot of time or money, or both.
Enjoy the tip!
-Steve
Posted bySteve at 11:26 PM 0 comments
Labels: Business, Saving Money
Blog of the Night 2 - Skeet's Stuff
Before I start this post, I'd like to mention to Skeet that I ran really well at my track meet, wasn't expecting much however I broke 2:00 in the 800m indoors so I'm really happy about myself.
Skeet, a fellow posite from PPP, and also a termite inspector (how weird/cool is that, lol) has a pretty varied yet interesting blog over at Skeet's Stuff. I know I'm a young guy in my 20's so skeet is normally a vulgar word but I've actually been educated on the word from skeet. If you read this post HERE you'll see that it used to be a common name in the South. I've been to the South only a couple of times in my life so I don't have much experience with people being called Skeet, but hey, it's all what you make out of it right? Skeet also has some nice posts about her holidays, which were from Hawaii since she's from there, Christmas is HERE and her New Years pics are HERE. Pretty cool pics since I know someone from Hawaii (actually my boss, but she's a good friend) and she loves it.
Check out her blog and show her some love,
Enjoy!
-Steve
Posted bySteve at 11:08 PM 3 comments
Valentine's Day Cards!
I know I'm not the most festive guy but I know some of you guys send me cards every holiday so I might let you guys know about a cool site which offers some nice Valentine Cards . Valentine's Day for mos people isn't a great holiday, it's either a lonely, sad or expensive holiday, so send out a free card to all your friends and make them feel a little happier. Why not, you can make people happy, send one to someone you love or like, or just be devilish and lead someone on. Can't go wrong with free Jokeroo.com Valentine's Day Cards.
More later,
-Steve 
Posted bySteve at 10:41 PM 0 comments
Labels: Holidays
Back from Boston!
Hey guys, been MIA this weekend with the track meet, then I went to see Arsenal play Liverpool at Nevada Smith's in the Lower East Side, then I took off to Boston for the Eastern Athletic Trainers Association (EATA) Conference in Boston, MA. It was the first time I had been there non-track related, so it was fun.
I took the T for the first time, which was really cool, but it's weird since the stops are really close to each other. New York you can easily go 5 mins without a stop, lol. The workshops and lectures were fun, and I did manage to win a jacket in the raffle they had for students, so I came out pretty good for the trip. I need to go down sometime and get to explore more, maybe run along the Charles river and visit some sites.
Things should calm down this week, nothing special so far, so more posting will be happening!
Stay Tuned,
-Steve
Posted bySteve at 10:14 PM 0 comments
Labels: Athletic Training, Travel
Web directory of mailboxes and maildrops
Saturday, January 06, 2007
Most have heard of mailboxes and P.O. Boxes but how many of you guys have heard of maildrops? Well for those like me who haven't it's a secure address, that's recognised by the USPS, that you can rent and use it as a postal address. With it you can have a remailing service or establish a business address that isn't your home. Pretty cool thing to have, and if you want some help in getting one, then check out MailDropGuide.com. They got a bunch of information on mailboxes, maildrops, etc, along with helpful guides and listings from all over the world. Worth a look especially for you small or home business owners out there.
Thanks,
-Steve
Posted bySteve at 1:17 AM 0 comments
Blog of the Night - The BenSpark
I'm kinda lazy tonight and don't feel like posting about the things I usually post about (tech news, random real life junk, etc, lol) so instead I'm going to bring you guys a mini-review or highlight of this really nice looking Blogger blog The BenSpark.
The BenSpark, which is located at http://benspark.blogspot.com/, is a really nice blog written by Drew and Allison. Drew seems to have really modified the standard Blogger layout into a nice custom design. His focus is mainly on photography but he has a bunch of content on various things. I loved this picture he posted with Optimus Prime, (he's a big Transformers fan) which he posted HERE. There's a lot more but I'll leave it up to you guys to find out.
Check it out!
-Steve
Posted bySteve at 12:39 AM 2 comments
News service for casinos, gamblers and online betters
Friday, January 05, 2007
I'm not that big of a gambler but I got roomates who are pretty active in the betting world, both online and with a bookie or lottery type bets so I'm letting everyone know about a good news services for all you gambling types. It's called OG Paper, and it's got all the casino and gambling news, reviews, guides and everything you could need. It's a nicely done site and the quality of the content is great, they got news from all over the world and even review Casions from all over as well. Pretty nice site to check out, even if you're not the type to gamble often.
Enjoy,
-Steve 
Posted bySteve at 12:38 PM 0 comments
Labels: News
Busy day tomorrow, Track Meet!
Hey just letting you guys know I got a big race tomorrow, the first of the new year, tomorrow afternoon at the Armory Track and Field Center in NY, NY so news might be slow tomorrow. I'm going to try to write up a post on my sports blog chronicalling the event . After it's late so I must crash, work tomorrow before I go.
-Steve
Posted bySteve at 12:31 AM 0 comments
Labels: Track
Justsayhi.com - Free Dating Site
Thursday, January 04, 2007
Hey I'm not currently attached to anyone so I've been looking around the dating sites and found out about this new dating site that you guys might be interested in. It's called JustSayHi.com, and it's a completely Free Dating site, yep no credit-cards required at all. It's kind of new and they're really working on trying to make a free dating site work so check it out, maybe I'll post my profile up for some lucky ladies out there. The URL for the site again is www.justsayhi.com, check it out.
-Steve
Posted bySteve at 8:49 PM 2 comments
News in the Next Generation DVD Format War
Wow it seems like things must be brewing in the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray camps after today's double announcements of a Double Format DVD player from LG and a new Disc that holds both formats on one disc.
News.com has a story on the new Warner Total DVD that has both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray formats on one disc, which can help consumers who want to see content on one format and not the other. Pretty good news for now until one format wins but it could be expensive yet useless if one camp dies off.
Same goes for LG's announcement of a Dual Format Player, as seen from the press release on HardOCP.com, it could be good, but we'll have to see what the consumers decide eventually.
I'm probably going with a PS3, so I give in to them, but I would like to see something where both camps player nice as well,
More later (I swear I post up news/pictures tonight of the Holidays)
-Steve
Posted bySteve at 1:33 PM 0 comments
New Tech Blog - The Tech Planet
Hey guys just letting you guys know about this new Tech Blog I've been visiting. I usually frequent Engadget, or Gizmodo for my technology and electronic/gadget news but I'm adding The Tech Planet to the list. It's a new site with a lot of potential to be as well known as the big guys.
They even got nice new gadgets like this Breathalyzer for your Cell Phone. That's really something new that could help you avoid a nice trip downtown to the police station. Don't know if you'll remember it when you're drunk but hey it's nice to see the technology. They also got some news on the $100 PC or the OLPC initiative, Hybrid Cars, and a bunch of varied but nice content. Check these out and more at The Tech Planet and post your thoughts on the site.
Enjoy,
-Steve
Posted bySteve at 12:40 AM 0 comments
Labels: Electronics, Internet, Tech
Cool site you guys should check out
Hey just letting you guys know about DownloadSquad.com since I don't recall ever talking about it on the blog. It's a great ressource for new programs and things to download or new services. I've found some pretty interesting stuff on there (search the archives) and think that you guys might find some good things on there as well. It's in the same network of blogs as Engadget so it's got some quality, so hop to and post your thoughts,
Enjoy,
-Steve
Posted bySteve at 12:10 AM 0 comments
Home equity loans, they confuse you as well?
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Most people are clueless to what they can use their home's equity to get a loan or a large cash advance. I just found out about this over the holidays when my parents were looking into possibly doing this to get enough $$ to pay for a new car instead of financing one. You should really look into home equity loans if you're trying to get something big and don't have a lot of liquid assets like my parents. I'm not an expert about home equity loans and all that but you should really check out this site PersonalHomeLoanMortgages.com to learn more, really worth the look.
Alright more later,
-Steve
Posted bySteve at 3:39 PM 0 comments
Labels: Finance, Saving Money
Ok, I give in, I want a PS3
Yea I've been spending my first day full day in NYC taking care of business, you know, going to work, going to practice, talking to my other boss for my library job. Basic bs that everyone has to attend to.
I've been thinking over the holidays of what my next big purchase is going to be. I have my cell phone, got everything I needed/wanted for Christmas (more later on that, I promise) and am pretty happy. Guess I just need something to look forward to getting. I wanted a next-gen console since Xbox360's been out and I was looking into getting a 360 but I realize how many PS2 games I still have and still actively play. So instead of buying both a ps2 and a 360 I might as well go PS3 and knock both out.
Yea I'm still not 100% but I'm really looking into it, what you guys think? what next-gen console you want? ps3, xbox360 or wii? Post your thoughts.
-Steve
Posted bySteve at 3:33 PM 2 comments
Labels: Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony, Video Games
Boise, Idaho, ever been?
Over the holidays I was talking to one of my old track buddies who went to Boise State, all the way up in Idaho. He got a full-ride like me and was back for the holidays to visit family and friends. I've personally never been to Idaho, much less the west coast, but after talking to my friend for a while I'm getting pretty intrigued about the place. He's lived there for 4 years so he knows what's going on there and seen the changes. He says Boise is booming, the quality of life is great and people are starting to move down there.
Before you start looking into some Boise homes maybe I should give you some info about Boise that I find interesting. It's been ranked in the top 5 for many categories, which you can check out in About Boise. And another great thing he pointed out since I'm French-Canadian is that the City of Boise is founded by French-Canadian trappers. Boise means "woods" in french btw, you can check the link to read about the history of Boise. They also got some cool activities and some great shopping malls for the girls so you can't go wrong when looking there to live. I'm going to check out more of Boise when I finish in May, might be another option to check out.
Enjoy the mini lesson on Boise,
-Steve
Posted bySteve at 1:43 AM 0 comments
Labels: Travel
Busy busy New Years, Happy 2007
Hey guys sorry for the lack of updates I'm working on maybe posting a photo album to show off my NYE pictures and really filling you guys in on what's been going on.
I'm back in NYC, so I should have some more time to write this all up but it's getting late and I just rode on the greyhound for 8 hrs.
-Steve
Posted bySteve at 1:39 AM 0 comments
