Everybody's gearing up for the Super Bowl, and I'm hearing more about it since its being held so close by, in Indianapolis. But I'm not excited, and it isn't because I'm not that much into football. More like I'm not rich, so I'm not going to be able to enjoy any of it, even though I've paid my share. Steve Hammer has a column that summarizes my feelings.
The only thing close to a horse I got in this race is voting for the band Five Year Mission to play in one of the concerts going on down there. You can vote once a day, so if you get the chance, help them out.
And here's a classic post from the archives: Sports Welfare Must Stop!

Something you don't hear about is the businesses for sale that you wouldn't expect to be for sale. Businesses like practices such as for dentistry and accountants. For some reason, when you think of professional practices like that, you think that they get handed down from generation to generation. I was going to say "father and son" but my mind immediately thought "sexist much?"
But actually passing along practices are done often like other businesses, in a sale. There are practices for sale all of the time. But Practice Sales Group deal with practice sales to ensure you get the best, whether you're buying or selling. Whether you're looking to buy or sell a dental practice for sale or accountancy practices for sale, they can help you get the best deal.

Right now Redbox movie kiosks are running a promotion where you can answer movie trivia questions for discounts on Redbox rentals. You get 5 trivia questions to answer in 60 seconds, with helps such as 50/50 and freezing time for 5 seconds. Each correct answer gets you a 10 cent discount for a rental, up to 50 cents. You can only play once a day for the discount, but its unlimited to play for fun. I may not use close to the amount of rentals I win, but its fun to play.

For those of you wondering what to do this weekend...
Maybe you remember hearing about recreating Star Wars from 15 second excerpts that people would select and film. Well, the whole thing has been put together, and here it is:

I was glad when Ain't It Cool News mentioned in their post about this that YouTube being available on XBox Live. I downloaded it and found out it was for Gold members only. But I've a blu ray player that plays videos from the internet (including YouTube) so I won't have to watch this on a computer monitor.

As I've said before, I just started a new blog. One of the things that I like about it is the excitement I'm getting from starting something new, trying to get my voice heard on the web. Also, that I don't have to be a major corporation with deep pockets of money to be able to start something like this. Its just a matter of finding the right webhosting, getting it set up, and get it out there.
I know each step of getting a new website can be overwhelming, but it isn't anything that can't be done. And there's so much competition for hosting that its just a matter of doing some research and making a choice. And if you're looking to run more than one website someday, you can look at multiple domain hosting services and see who can help you there. And creating the website is more do-it-yourself than ever. Basically, if you can think it up, you can do it. Its so easy, you'll wonder if you even did it after its done.

I just started a new blog, and again I'm running into the same thing: getting the word out. I want to get people to check out the blog, and I don't have a big advertising budget to get the word out. This new blog I've started is literally to point out cool stuff on the internet to my wife, but I'm always looking for cool stuff online and I figure there's other people doing the same. But at least this way I know there's one person reading the blog.
Business owners are facing the same thing when they set up an online prescence. It doesn't take much to realize that there's a lot of websites out there, and people searching out for what you have to offer can be overwhelmed quickly. Do you know how many websites can be found with a search? I just did a search for "cool stuff on the internet" and they came back with over 29 million results, with the top 10 on the first page. How often do people click further? How long would it take before they even got to my site.
But there are ways for businesses to improve their online profile to get discovered sooner by those looking for them. But submitting to web directories such as Jasmine directory. They can help you to not only prevent you floundering online, but that you have the best chance to reach the customers looking for what you have to offer.