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If you link to their site, they send you a Nalgene Bottle and I love me some Nalgene bottles. I also love me some Amino Acids!

Interesting, Vitabase Nutritional Supplement is giving away a starbucks gift card if you link to their site… so, Starbucks, here I come!

As part of the BzzAgent program, I get to review all sorts of products that I probably never would’ve been exposited to and this time I got to check out a data backup service called Carbonite.

So what is it? It’s an application that backs up all your important files, encrypted, to their servers so that you don’t have to keep track - it’s essentially an enterprise level and quality application for the regular home computer user. It backs up your pictures, your movies, your important documents - everything except system files, which don’t backup well and don’t restore well either. What’s cool about this service is you buy a license for a computer, which means you can back up as much data as you want - no data limits. I’ve seen other online storage places that charged you a fixed rate for some amount of space and then a variable rate for more space, Carbonite just backs up the whole shebang. Their data rates are pretty fast too, it backs up at around 2 GB every 24 hours for the typical internet connection and downloads at 10 -15 GB - the limiting factor is likely your internet connection.

It’s only $49.99/mo and you can get a free thirty day trial (no credit card required) if you use the code BZZ. It’s worth checking out the service because you don’t have to remember to cancel, they don’t have your card so they can’t charge you - this is a free trial done right.

If you haven’t heard about the 2007 Tostito’s Fiesta Bowl where Boise State knocked off football juggernaut Oklahoma, then you need to check out this video of the last few minutes of the game. Not only did Boise State pulled off a hook and lateral play, but they also, as you will see in the video, pull off a halfback TD pass and the State of Liberty play on the 2pt conversion to beat a football POWERHOUSE. Unreal!

This happened with The West Wing a year or so ago so I’m not surprised but recently I’ve been tearing through episodes of 24 like its my job. In about a week I’ve watched all of Seasons One and Two, with Season Three currently on as I type this (Season Four and Season Five are waiting in the wings). I want to catch up before the latest season starts up January 14th and 15th (a two day, four hour premier!).

Jack Bauer is awesome, Keifer Sutherland is perfect for this role, and this show is incredible if you’ve never watched it. Fire up your Torrent app and get yourself some 24. Git!

This isn’t another post about how you should be careful about what you say because it could be discovered by your employer (or potential employer) because that would be a case of tunnel vision. Be mindful of what you write in your blog because anyone can potentially find it… future boyfriends/girlfriends, employers, friends, etc.

If you haven’t done this before (and I have) then you’re probably going to in about three seconds, google someone you know. Heck, google yourself and see what happens. If you have a common name like me, then it doesn’t matter because there are a million Jim Wang’s. Even if you were like my friend Chih-Wei Yi, there are a lot more Chih-Wei Yi’s then you’d imagine. (The first site titled Chih-Wei Yi is not him).

But… if you dig a little harder, you will find almost anyone you can think of. With more searching, you’ll probably find that person’s blog and all the information they thought was only being shared with close friends.

So… be careful about the image you project (especially if you like to rant on your blog, like me!) and what your blog says about you.

Poor Pluto, it gets no respect.

Seriously, who cares?

I’m just trying to read the new regulations on what I can bring on a plane and what I can’t, so why does the BWI airport have the light gray text on a white background? The header also has white on light gray, I mean don’t these people ever read this stuff?

There’s been a lot of noise over AOL’s recent release of nearly 500 megs of search data (with usernames replaced with numbers) and then their removal of that info from their research pages. Google recently told the DOJ it wouldn’t release search data because it was infringe on their user’s privacy and they were right.

Now check this Minority Report-esq find by Markus of Plentyoffish… check out the search queries of User 17556639 and postulate what this user is trying to find out more about. Looks like AOL opened up the can of worms that was bound to be opened and we’ll have to see how this all shakes out.

Clic here for mirrors to the data and some more info about this… this information is all over the web.