The most interesting thing of the moment: 4/10/05

Taxes

Death and taxes are inevitable, but death doesn't get worse every time Congress is in session.

Stranger tales I've never heard

I just got this. Seems a bit far fetched to me:

This is a story about some yahoo who registered several domains to spread his story about developing Peritoneal Mesothelioma after having Laser Hair Removal in Washington DC. For some reason he thought Wisconsin Lemon Laws were in his favor and he'd soon get a huge settlement paid with Best Buy gift cards. It turns out he should have had temporary medical insurance. Now he is looking for a Personal Injury Solicitor.

Speaking of Best Buy, best not buy with $2 bills, unless you like handcuffs.

Google, Amazon and affiliates

I have been trying several "affiliate" programs. So far, the Google adsense has been really good followed by the Amazon affiliate program. They work both as a revenue stream as well as a good way to track usage of the site. People who click Google ads or buy something from Amazon probably liked the site and found some benefit from it.

Feel free to click the sponsored links.

Another Daylight Savings Time Issue

"[on the night the clocks are set back] Supposing some unfortunate lady was confined with twins and one child was born 10 minutes before 1 o'clock. ... the time of birth of the two children would be reversed. ... Such an alteration might conceivably affect the property and titles in that house."

Daylight Savings time

A writer in 1947 wrote, "I don't really care how time is reckoned so long as there is some agreement about it, but I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind. I even object to the implication that I am wasting something valuable if I stay in bed after the sun has risen. As an admirer of moonlight I resent the bossy insistence of those who want to reduce my time for enjoying it. At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves." (Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947, XIX, Sunday.)