Monthly Archives: March 2006

eBay’s Commercials

By Jacob Allred | Published: March 26, 2006
Was watch­ing TV and saw an eBay com­mer­cial. The premise is that any­thing you want, you can “find IT on eBay”. What a bunch of stupidness! Things you can’t find on eBay: Guns Ammu­ni­tion Body parts Ani­mals Alco­hol Tobacco Drugs Coun­ter­feit items And a ton more… (Whole list avail­able here) Stu­pid decep­tive adver­tis­ing. It isn’t that I WANT these items to be sold on eBay (guns and ammo [...]
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Verizon XV6700

By Jacob Allred | Published: March 24, 2006
Last week I got a brand spank­ing new Ver­i­zon XV6700 cell phone. Yes, it is expen­sive. I ended up pay­ing some­thing like $300 ($100 IR) for the phone, and it comes out to like $96 a month for ser­vice (that includes unlim­ited EVDO broad­band inter­net, and also slow inter­net for those in non-EVDO areas…). I opted for [...]
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zulugrid.com lives again!

By Jacob Allred | Published: March 23, 2006
zulugrid.com has been, more or less, offline for about 2 years. But it finally lives again! Some things com­ing soon: Review of XV6700 cel­lu­lar phone Review of Dell Insp­iron 1150 laptop Stamps.com review in rela­tion to eBay And much more! All­right so it isn’t that amaz­ing or spec­tac­u­lar. Mainly it is just a place for me to post my ran­dom and unor­ga­nized thoughts, and to speak my [...]
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