From fellow Mini Owner Bob Wilson, I know his car well 
Hi Everyone,
I just learned how to Text Message, talk on my phone, drink coffee and drive while setting my GPS! Neat, eh?
Consider sending this to the drivers you know who would also benefit from this multitasking lesson.
Besides my usual ranting and reviewing on Yelp.com, I decided to give TripAdvisor a go. It’s kinda the same thing, you review places you have been, and it is organized geographically so that people visiting some sort of destination can take a peek and see what there is to do, places to stay, food to eat, drinks to refresh yourself with, that sort of thing.
If you want to check out my reviews there, cool cool, my member name is CalhounC. The website can be found at http://www.tripadvisor.com, though I should mention that the places people review have to actually be listed in TripAdvisor, so a lot of the very small out of the way, not-internet-savvy sort of places (you know, the ones tourists may miss, away from the touristy areas), well they may never make it to TripAdvisor, unless, someone submits it AND they approve it.
Yeah, I just said, approve it — that’s right, the place is highly moderated, they are a bit picky about reviews and need a whole lot of validation, which is kinda good because it is SUPPOSED to prevent people from giving fake reviews, however, the system seems to be very easy to beat if a place asks their patrons to login and give them 5 star reviews (well, dots in this case).
So, you really need to take the review thing with a grain of salt, if you just see someone rating a place and it’s the only review they ever did, I’d heed it with a bit of caution (just like Yelp!). If it’s a seasoned reviewer like me (I am moving up the ranks, so to speak, and have reviewed a lot of places), well, then the person’s rating and list of reviews should speak for themselves.
That said, you can probably find a few folks that like the same sort of thing that you like, and if they tend to enjoy or not the stuff you do, and they’ve been to destinations you are thinking of maybe going to (or what not).. Well, just sayin.. that seems to be the point of TripAdvisor, to … well … advise!
Cheers, that.
Hope you enjoy my reviews, and if you do, please throw some kudos my way eh?
Andrew (aka klaatu42) has done it again, with another awesome feat of editing and voiceovers, brings you the talking animals (user submitted videos on YouTube, which he remixes) as they sing the holiday favorite “12 days of Christmas” tune. Enjoy.
Hi folks, you may wonder what this is about, I wrote a FB app to seamlessly integrate my blogs (which are all WordPress based) and facebook. So I am posting here on starlord.net with the app and a plug-in which should port this so it exists on both sites. I’m including an image in the post just for testing as well. If all goes well I’ll use the same app and plugin on sites such as Miniology.com and other ones that I am hosting. Cheers!
SCPmedia, like the Electric Crayon, is a company affiliated with the production of Miniology and some other broadcast TV/radio stuff.
Christopher / StarLord
Listen to this:
“Can’t You See” by Matt Minglewood.
Now this:
“Southern Rock” – Arranged by StarLord using stock Apple loops.
Same tune!?
How about the iLife/Garage Band “Magic Garage Band” Funky tune?
Most would say it is a dead ringer for Tower of Power’s “Diggin’ on James Brown”
I wonder how many more there are out there?
