Year: 2005

Overture has a great search engine tool that tells you how many searches were done for any word you enter: http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/ So I put together a list of 151 animals and plunked them into the system. Quite surprisingly, cow was…

Ever wonder where people sell your name to when you fill out a request form or profile form online? Here’s a trick that I do: When filling in your first name put something unique after your name. i.e. my full…

Where is: Latitude 33° 33Min 33Sec, Longitude 33° 33Min 33Sec? — It’s right off the coast of Israel. Then you can add minus signs in the numbers. 33° 33Min 33Sec -33° 33Min 33Sec — Middle of North Atlantic Ocean -33°…

I’ve been using this word, blogworthy, for awhile. Finally thought I’d post it. blogworthy: anytime there is something that is deserving of going on the blog i.e this post about blogworthy is so blogWORTHY!

“the life of a clown is a life of extremes” -matt maldre

One day my scarf darted away. Hey Hey comfy blanket of gray, I say come with me today. You a fine body scarf, hooray!

Coca-Cola has a promotion where you could win a PSP handheld video game system, or the new PS2, or a PlayStation2 game. So being a sucker for soda giveaways, I bought a bottle (plus feeling a little sick, coke makes…

I’m looking for some software or service that would notify me via email (or RSS feed) whenever there is a new site linking to my site. And that’s just it, i only want new sites. I don’t want to be…

We are so accustomed to our 12-month calendar, January, February, March, etc. What if we were to use a calendar based on the full moon? Seeing that there is a full moon tonight, this would be the start of the…

I’ve had plenty of problems with my current hosting company olm.net and am considering changing hosts. I need a plan with: Size 600mb storage or more 15 gigs traffic or more MySQL stuff MySQL version 3.23.32 or newer. PHPmyAdmin MySQL…

The empty coat closet at work, no jackets inside do lurk. All is quiet and still, Nothing moving notta nill. I hang my coat off to the side, setting over any jacket pride. Don’t want it to get in the…

According to the Houston Chronicle, the Astros, Devil Rays, Pirates, Diamondbacks and Cubs are interested in free agent OF Jeromy Burnitz. Great, the Cubs could really use another player to strikeout 120-150 times a season.

i say a $499 computer. bank it.

I’m looking to buy an xbox console, but they are sold out everywhere. How bizarre. I thought ps2 was more popular than xbox. One would think that xbox would have a ready supply for anyone willing to get their less…

Public art is great to have around. It sparks dialogue and thought. But according to the artist’s website this installation constitutes “a lasting anxiety.” Hmmm. do we want a piece that causes anxiety in our parks? It’s one thing if…

Are there names for hours other than 12am and 12pm? For instance does 1pm have a name? Certainly 6pm should have a name. It’s the point where the day is 3/4 done. The Lojban language has something that kinda does…

A friend at work and I were talking about Vanilla Ice and Snow’s name came up. Y’know the guy who did that reggae song, “Informer” in the mid 90s. Lo and behold iTunes actually sells it from the 12 inches…

Word is that the Mets are gonna pay Carlos Beltran $25 million a year to join their team. How fitting that he would join the Mets. Every player on the Mets have sucked. Yeah, Beltran rocked last season, but he’s…

Please draw a flower on a yellow 2 by 1.5-inch stickie note and mail it to: Matt MaldreFlower Project350 Phillips AveGlen Ellyn, IL 60137 You may draw your flower using any medium. i.e. pen, pencil, marker, crayon, paint, pastel, etc…

The band wanted to go beyond the standard album and have a theme with legs. Building off from the name of the album, “Please Remember My Name” we developed the concept of using a nametag–photos of the band wearing the…