Sunday, January 04, 2009
post://6159892700569416999/Peapod has taken forever to come to the area... it sucks because I would love to order my groceries online and then have them delivered. The next best thing to that is ordering online and picking them up. Well the time has come for online grocery shopping as Big Y has BigY2Go in Greenfield and Springfield (Walpole too but that's all Boston-y).
I was able to go through our entire grocery list and order. You can search, or go through by category and choose what you want in your order. The best part was that it not only shows you the sales, but you can sort by unit price so you can see which is the cheapest method of buying each thing. I saw poptarts, an 8 count and a 12 count and I could see the 12 count was quite a beat cheaper per unit.
That may seem obvious, but there are other foods where it's not so obvious, and even when I'm curious I don't want to look all over multiple shelves comparing the tomatoes... and what happens when you see that thing you want in an odd part of the grocery store, do you go look for the best deal where it's home is, or do you just pick it up? That's what they're counting on!
Shopping this way allows me to see all the raisins available, and judge whether it's really worth the 6 cents a unit or 30 cents a package for the better tasting ones. The issue can't really be made for saving money, however - because if you were really looking to save all this money you wouldn't be paying them $10 to go grab your list of items off the shelves for you.
$10 for an entire order of groceries (translates to $3 an hour the way I food shop) is well worth it, and I feel quite a reasonable price. So if you live in Springfield or Greenfield MA - give it a shot, it sounds like this could be the feature and I'm loving the potential.
Labels: consumerism, cool, technology, web
posted @ 21:42
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Saturday, November 08, 2008
post://2455176128710699342/I saw a link when I published for "add gadgets to your blog"
I'm still using a template and I like i that way. I have my own ways of adding things to the page but I don't have the time to do it. That's why the scrolling links page has been a white box slapped on top of everything else for so long. I know what I want to do with it, but haven't gotten around to it.
In any case I thought Google's new gadget APi looked like a pretty cool idea.
Labels: cool, graphics, programming, web
posted @ 12:34
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Saturday, January 12, 2008
post://2895705533467000436/I'm building a web site for my mom and practicing my Silverlight.
What is Silverlight? It's a JavaScript front end for VB. I can write limited VB and use it on the web, so all the stuff I'm familiar with how to do can be translated to a flash-like experience, animated, rich gui application (webpage).
If you're interested, check out the following:
Silverlight introduction
Silverlight Quick Start
Silverlight Reference
Silverlight Gallery
Labels: programming, web
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Wednesday, January 02, 2008
post://6803360186600616537/Here are some of the best Fark headlines from 2007
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007
post://5332822013358361988/Like seeing whats up with new sites, this was a fledgling service, and I was all on board with it, finally ponied up the dough and blam, they went mega (Yahoo bought them). This is what happened with Blogger (kinda) I had been using Blogger for a while and finally went pro - a few months went by and they decided to thank everyone who actually paid for Blogger with a free sweatshirt. I think they sent the same M size to everyone, but I've still got it and even occasionally wear it.
Try it out, it's pretty neat... and you can vote and other little things like... such as, and henceforth:
Join MyBlogLog
Labels: web
posted @ 17:33
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Wednesday, October 03, 2007
post://4881947655539162387/Ugg - it's always a drag when the ol domain registration expires.
I swear I'll just buy them all for the next 20 years!
This won't even post when I write it, says 48 hours but I'm hoping maybe by tomorrow?
Apparently I've been expired since the 1st, probably took 48 hours for the change to take effect.
I imagine the restration monkeys get a lot more volume now a days.
In any case I'm going back to elaborate on the bullet points...
// pssst (check below)-----v
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Sunday, August 05, 2007
post://123123248514255889/Here's my latest web project. I'm doing it in trade, I get some electrial work (dishwasher circuit, gararge), and he gets a cool site for his Paintball event. It'll also be a really cool addition to my web portfolio.
posted @ 22:08
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Monday, July 23, 2007
post://2940033367528615847/So I took down my bulletin board. I guess I'm going to have to lock it up. Too many spammers, even with a image test and confirmation email. My next version will have super lock down.
I am hoping it can be a sort of mixer place where people can post items they might not necessarily put on their website. Of course it would probably be that much less effort for someone to post it on their website. I can still wish to be the cool kid...
I haven't yet posted today's links, they're on the work machine, but here's a neat little item:
Safari 3 beta for Windows
Fox News Website hole exposes 1.5 million users' personal info - and that number is coming directly out of my Wiki-hole. I don't think it's quite that high. Can FOX News really effect that many people?
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Thursday, February 22, 2007
post://3791269297214567438/Check out the Crime Scenes - Apparently a new movie about a series of murders in 1989. I like the idea of a modern movie taking place in a realistic time period. One that I can actually watch and recognize the time period while getting all nostalgic.
I'm posting it because it's a superbly done flash site, and a good example of what can be done with modern web authoring.
posted @ 17:58
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