I use AuthorizeNet as my gateway for my merchant accounts, and I had to call them today. Another much newer AuthorizeNet gateway account I have has an account ID of something like 180,000, but my original account with them, which I’ve had for 10 years, is a 3-digit number that starts with a “2″. When ...…
I just got back from the gym, doing the “Firefighter Training Test” on the treadmill… Each minute the speed and incline increases, and it gets really rough at the end. Towards the last couple of minutes I start frantically clicking my iPod Shuffle looking for a high-energy song to run to. For some reason, the ...…
At Disney’s California Adventure theme park (attached to Disneyland), there’s a personality test where you answer a few questions and then the machine tells you what Disney character you are most like. I answered the questions and my personality type was: Cogsworth The Clock Cogsworth is the nervous clock from Beauty And The Beast that ...…
This is my first “real” day doing some work in this new year, and it’s already late enough that some people have probably already given up on their New Years resolutions! The reason why New Years resolutions tend to fail is that they’re artificially created excuses to let you NOT make changes in the months ...…
We’re gettin’ rain in California… Here’s a photo of a rainbow over my backyard – This is NOT Photoshopped…
George Carlin died today, that really sucks. I don’t want to scare anybody, but I think my outlook and perspective on life has been shaped and influenced more by comedians like George Carlin, Chris Rock, Bill Hicks, and Doug Stanhope than from anything else. I stay up on current events by watching Comedy Central. (John ...…
“And now for something completely different…” I’m a musician and songwriter in addition to running Internet businesses, going way back… I paid my way through college in Santa Barbara playing in bars/nightclubs on the weekends, and I made a living playing music full-time for many years. If you’re at all curious about the other side ...…
In one of the most useless symbolic gestures in recent memory, today is “Boycott Gasoline Day”. Not, “Let’s get serious and start carpooling, making less trips, using alternative means of transportation, and buying more fuel-efficient cars” day. Nope. People are driving about their business as usual, they’re just getting gas yesterday or tomorrow. In other ...…
Hello Friends & Subscribers! Well, it’s my birthday today (March 26th), so happy birthday to me. I didn’t ask for anything for my birthday (I’m annoying to shop for), so apparently I’ve already got everything I need. Instead, I’d like to offer to help YOU with your online business in any way that I realistically ...…
