It has been reported today that David Carradine was found dead in a hotel room in Bangkok, Thailand. The linked CNN article does not mention this but other sources have described the scene to be a likely suicide. I really don’t understand that. I mean, I realize that David Carradine is not a young man by any means – he was 72 at the time of his death – but I could never imagine any reason to take my own life. Perhaps he felt that he had done everything that he wanted to do in his life and, w... Read Full Story

The vacation was really nice. I know I posted before that I was all set to post on the trip. Obviously, that didn't happen. But that's ok, I was too busy having a good time. Our flight out was early on Saturday the 23rd. The plane left at 7:30 am and so we left the house at 6:00 am to get to the airport in time. We went through the standard security procedures of the modern airport sans shoes and all, fortunately, without incident. I took a few photos out of th... Read Full Story

Saturday the family leaves for a vacation to California. It will be the first time I have been to California and the first time I have ever flown. Yeah, I know, if you do the math, I'm 32 and haven't ever flown before in my life. It's not for lack of a desire to fly, but rather a lack of opportunity. In fact, I'm really excited about finally getting to take a flight. We are traveling to visit my wife's family, mostly, but also plan to do some typical sightseeing, as wel... Read Full Story

Well, so it's been over a year since I have done anything with this blog and I'm sure if any of you were past regular readers (there aren't any left, right?) you are exceedingly surprised to see a new post. I am too. When I was last maintaining this blog I was trying, rather unsuccessfully, I might add, to do a post every day. At first, this wasn't a very difficult task and for a few months, I believe, I maintained that kind of pace or very near it. Eventually, that kind of... Read Full Story

A good friend of mine spends a large portion of their free time at online casinos. I've never really understood this obsession myself. I totally understand going to a real casino and joining in with the crowd to gamble away some time (and money, most likely). The excitement of the crowd, the rush of winning, even the commiseration of loosing I understand. Personally, I don't see how the same experience can exist online...that is I couldn't understand it until my friend turned me o... Read Full Story

I recently came across this very neat site that allows you to find which keywords you rank for in search results. Here's an example of the results you will get:   If you click on any of the links you are taken to the search engine where the key word ranks. (Google for all of mine, apparently the other search engines don't like the blog at all or maybe it just hasn't been active long enough.) These results are updated every 2 weeks so it may not be entirely accurate. For ... Read Full Story

I recently saw an interesting commercial for LifeLock and had to do some research on the service being offered. In the commercial this guy had his social security number posted in 3 foot letters along the side of a tractor-trailer that was driving through a large city. That's a pretty decent demonstration that LifeLock would protect your identity from being stolen. I did some searching online and found this LifeLock Promo Code and a better explanation of exactly what LifeLock does. Cred... Read Full Story

Wow, has it really been five days. I know that I have been a bit slack in posting as of late, but I had no idea it had been five days since my last post. So much has been going on with the holidays and everything that I didn't even realize the time had passed. I won't make any promises, especially with Christmas right around the corner, but I'll try to post more.In the meantime, I'm sure you have noticed by now that something rather interesting is happening with the layout of ... Read Full Story

I've recently discovered an ad delivery network that I have been using here on Zybron's Thoughts. If you've noticed some very eye catching ads showing up where Adsense was before then you've seen the new ad network in action. Adsdaq.com is the ad network I've been using. Adsdaq has a unique feature for the ads that are displayed on your sight. You get to specify the CPM for those ads. (Cost per thousand impressions.) Adsdaq will then try to match the CPM you have specifi... Read Full Story

As many of you are aware, I signed up for National Blog Posting Month last month. For the most part, it wasn't much of an issue. There were a couple of days that I just had absolutely nothing to write about and if you look back through the archives you will definitely be able to pinpoint those days. If you are looking back through the archives now you'll notice that I didn't quite make it. I'd like to share what NaBloPoMo has taught me. Before November began I was posting abo... Read Full Story