I’m sitting here in New Buffalo Michigan, sitting by a fire and drinking some wine while my wife and friends are playing Pictionary.  I would be playing if it was a different game, but I hate Pictionary, I don’t know why, I just do.

I will have to upload a pic of the world’s largest urinal, these things are hilarious.  I really don’t know if they are the world’s largest, but they are ginormous.

Tomorrow we’ll be hitting some wineries and eating lots.  Hopefully make it to the jerkey store and buy some of the best jerkey I have ever had.  Most of you think really dry tough meat when you think jerky.  This stuff is like eating a cured steak, thick and meaty and does not have the texture of a leather shoe.

Hope everyone has as fun of a Veteran’s Day weekend that I will have.  Take time to think about the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan even though you may not agree with the war.

Brian Clark of Copyblogger writes “Why people want to know what’s in it for *you*”.

So what do I get out of this website?  Why do I write a blog?  It’s definately not ad revenue.  What I get out of my blog is hard to explain.  When someone shoots me an e-mail or comments on my blog it just feels good that someone out there cares about what I write.  I have also met some really cool people cause of the Internet and this blog.  If I meet someone I can just tell them to go read some of my blog and they can learn about what i’m about and my interests.  The 30+ RSS subscribers and the 300 unique visitors I get daily tells me that there are some people out there that read my site.  When I think about it, what I get out of this site is I am creating “networking” possibilities through my readers that I normally would not have had without starting a blog.

What do you get out of your blog?

[tags]Copyblogger, blog, website, networking, chicago[/tags]

My brain is fried.

Go check out my Del.icio.us links for something to do.
For some reason I get crazy anxiety on election days and a couple days after.  The whole recount thing doesn’t help it at all. Do other people take the election that seriously?  or am I just crazy and nuts all rolled into one?

I’ve been using Google Docs & Spreadsheets quite a bit lately to distance myself from Microsoft office & even Open Office for that matter. I love the fact that I can upload all my documents to my account and have instant access to them anywhere. And even better is the fact that you can invite people to collaborate on a document. The idea of having all my apps no matter where I am is a real no brainer for me. Some naysayer’s may give me the argument that you don’t always have net access, and I say I always have net access when i’m doing real work, I even have net access on my phone, so I “always” have net access. And if I don’t have net access I’m probably in a third world country enjoying myself and don’t want to be bothered with a computer anyway.
As I use it more I discovered the frustration of Firefox’s good security measures in Firefox 2. Firefox outright blocks access to the OS’s clipboard, so when you highlight text and right click to copy you get the following error message. I applaud Firefox’s good security measures, but for future releases they may want to alter their settings to allow certain high profile sites access to your computer’s clipboard.

Fortunately there is a fix, although not the easiest, you have to edit the user.js file manually.

I will redirect you to the Google Operating System blog for a full write-up on how to fix this issue instead of regurgitating the content here.

[tags]firefox, google, google docs & spreadsheets, web apps, error, web applications [/tags]

Fox reduced the opening of Borat from 2500 theaters to 800 and lost $53 million in sales because it. Retarded!!! I hope someone gets fired for that decision. They must have gotten scared from the snakes on a plane fiasco that bombed even with all the buzz surrounding it.

I can’t remember where I heard this statment, but “Borat is Jackass for the college educated”. I have not seen the movie yet, but I can’t wait. Everyone at starbucks today was talking about it when I went in to get my Latte.

[tags]Borat, Fox, Old Media, Movies, Cinema [/tags]

Orderedlist.com’s feedburner plugin rocks.  The plugin sends all forwards my wordpress feed to my feedburner feed, resulting in feedburner stats to be more acurate.  So feedburner will now report all subscribers to my old feed to my feedburner feed.  I installed the plugin the other day and  it works flawlessly.  I recommend all users of wordpress and feedburner to use this plugin as you will get  more acurate metrics on your subcribers to your rss feed.  I saw my feed subscriber stats double on feedburner as it looks like half of my subscribers to my wordpress feed instead of the feedburner feed.
[tags]feedburner, RSS, feeds, Subscription, feed[/tags]

You can check out out the important changes at Mark Jaquith website.

Well I have decided to remove adsense from the my blog for the time being.  I don’t get enough traffic to warrant it and it is just a hinderance on the the small amount of readers I do have.  If I ever get enough traffic to make some real money they may come back for now enjoy http://blog.zemote.com adfree.

Well I can’t divulge much at this point but I have numerous projects in the initial planning stages which may lead to a startup. I’m just too excited not to post something even though I am not going to say much at this point. I would like to have a working prototype before I divulge my little secret and unleash it on the world. Just to let you know it will be very web 2.0ish. God, I hate that term, it is such a cliche.

World Domination 2.0!!! Is that REM’s “The end of the world as we know it” playing in the background? I am looking for developer’s right now. If anybody’s interested please send me your resume and projects you have worked on to zemote@gmail.com.