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Is it weird that I love to go and visit an office supply store? Well, I admit it. I love walking down the aisles of office supply stores. Office Max or Staples, it doesn’t really matter. I just love seeing all the new stuff. As you walk down the aisles you have that fresh paper smell in the air. It’s fantastic. What can I say? I love getting new office supplies.

I think that this all started back in high school when I was on the debate team. There are two essential items as a debater. Stacks of evidence (Translation: Reams of Paper) and pens. Don’t think I did this mansy pansy debate where you get up and philosophize about something. I did policy debate where you would speed read (we called it spewing) as much evidence as you could get out in the alloted time. Well, if someone is spewing evidence then you better have a high quality pen to record what they say, because you have to respond to it. It’s all my debate coach Dave’s fault for getting me into office supplies. That’s when I bought my first box of pens. They were the nice one where the ink just rolls off the tip. Oh yeah.

Don’t get me wrong. I don’t go overboard and I’m not stupid. You won’t catch me paying extra for designer personal checks or something like that. No No! I only buy cheap checks. In fact, the cheaper the better. I’m so cheap with checks I use the blank ones they give you when you open a bank account.

However, I have my weaknesses. Pens. Sticky Notes. Dry erase markers. Pens. Paper. File Folders. Pens.

I love looking at stats on my blog and my favorite part of stats is seeing how people were able to find this blog. Most times stats packages call this referrers or referring pages.

When I see that someone was kind enough to put a link on their blog and send traffic my way, I figure the least I could do is to go and visit their blog. Generate some traffic. Click on some Google Adsense (if they have any) and then most important is pimp their blog with some comments. I don’t know a single blogger that doesn’t love to see comments on their blog. It’s a great feeling. It lets you know that people are indeed reading your blog. It also lets other readers of your blog know that they aren’t the only one reading your blog. I love commenting on other blogs. Probably because I always have something to say. I can’t remember finding a topic where I was utterly speechless. Sometimes I think the post is dumb and doesn’t deserve a comment, but I always could say something if I’d like.

So, all you bloggers out there. Go out and pimp someone’s blog. In fact, maybe I just came up with an idea. I should post a message on the forums I’m on and we can rotate whose blog we’re going to pimp with comments. Each day or probably every other day, we could choose a blogger that we smother with comment love. Sounds like a good idea to me. We’ll see if other people agree.

Either way, you’ll find plenty of my comments across the blogosphere.

Ever since the MWC decided to sign a deal with CSTV they’ve talked about streaming video online and CSTV on demand. Turns out they have a model to follow. SPEEDtv is doing this with their product called Automotive News“>SPEED on Demand. They’ve even built in some of the great TIVO features like rewinding and fast forwarding through parts that you want to see again or don’t want to watch. What a great offering. Many of us have to work and so having a streaming TV component is essential to a TV station these days and SPEEDtv seems to have done it the right way. They have a whole bunch of other video stuff under the interactive menu too. Tie this video into their Automotive News and their package blows CSTV out of the water. Will CSTV ever catch up?

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