Postcards from the Funny Farm

Every Father’s day my wife and I have the same question: “What the heck are gonna get for him?” respectively. My dad is a successful guy who pretty much buys himself anything he wants throughout the year. At the same time I want to get him something that shows I care and how much I love him. Hence, the challenge.

Birthdays are the same thing. Well, I found a resource that will give me a lot of Gift Ideas on these occasions. It’s called Dad Shop and it’s based in Australia. Their Fathers Day is coming up, so especially if you are there or from there, this is a site you should check out quick. Heck, I’m recommending it to my wife, maybe she’ll use it to find me the perfect gift!

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Advantage Rent A Car has a website that makes car rental easier than ever before. Just like you can buy a train ticket or even a plane ticket online, fully automated, now Advantage has created a database and website to help you rent a car just as easily. They do it in 3 steps:

1. Pick Up
2. Select Vehicle -and-
3. Drop Off

It’s all done according to your needs and your specifications. Talking to a human when ordering is sometimes nice, but if you’re like me, you enjoy doing business with an automated system just as much if not more. If you try this service out now, you can take advantage of their brilliant current deals. Last but not least, if you are into a luxury or convertible car deal, they have some great ones going on. This website will make your car renting way easier. Bookmark it!

Blogrolling.com has been down most of the last few days and I for one am about ready to toss out their service. I used Blogrolling because it’s easy to add and update blogs to it and it automatically updates all my blogs simultaneously.

I have other options: Wordpress’ native blogroll has its limitations but at least it stays on when your server is on. Technorati also has a similar code to Blogrolling.com. This is the problem with Blogrolling.com and other online services: when they go down you have no contact info or ability to complain. I can’t do my weekly Blog Safari until I get my blogroll going. Unfortunately, that means rebuilding it from scratch. I can guarantee you that unless they provide an explanation that is reasonable when back up, I will get my OPML downloaded safe and sound on my hard drive and get the hell outta dodge.

How long should you wait when online services are down?