http://baxtr.com Dan Baxter 2.0 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:45:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I finally got my old domain name back.  I had danbaxter.com for years then lost it when my registrar went out of business and never got a renew update.  I ended up using godaddy's backorder domain service to snag it. http://baxtr.com/articles/2009/01/12/recovered-danbaxtercom/ I recently switched my blog software over to Wordpress. It was running on Typo powered by Ruby on Rails. I decided to make the switch so I could use the new super cool Wordpress iPhone app. So far I like it, Wordpress has more features and options. ... http://baxtr.com/articles/2008/08/11/new-blog-sorta/ I started thinking about this offshore drilling debate tonight while drinking. Lets say we do offshore drilling and in 8-10 years it actually produces an extra 200,000 barrels per day (1% of our daily oil consumption). Does anyone actually believe that this oil is going to be any ... http://baxtr.com/articles/2008/08/09/why-offshore-drilling-is-a-joke/ We have been busy working on something we should have done years ago. Were finally launching we website dedicated to the crazy black friday sales and leaked ads. The site is still early beta but we hope to have all the bugs worked out in a ... http://baxtr.com/articles/2007/10/08/black-friday-2-0/ It seems every year the black friday sale ads leak earlier. I'm starting to wonder if its now an advertising tactic used by these stores. Last week we received the rumored Ace Hardware black friday ad including a ad scan that appears to be legit. We will be ... http://baxtr.com/articles/2007/09/26/black-friday-in-september/ I just wanted to thank AMEX for crediting my account due to the iPhone price drop. So not only did Apple send me $100 store credit AMEX also gave me the difference back. I guess being a early iPhone adopter wasn't so bad after all. http://baxtr.com/articles/2007/09/19/american-express-iphone-rocks/ Today we got a huge boost in traffic. It turns out my website DealCatcher.com was featured in the popular over 50 magazine AARP. Check out the article 50 Things You Need to Know by 50 were listed at #38. The article has contributions from a bunch of ... http://baxtr.com/articles/2007/06/07/dealcatcher-com-featured-in-aarp-magazine/ digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Test_New_Protoype_Google_Layout_for_Yourself'; I was shocked to find my little blog mentioned on the very popular Web 2.0 blog Techcrunch.com this week. It seems I was one of the first people to spot a new prototype Google layout. Thanks to Google Blogoscoped you can follow this simple steps to ... http://baxtr.com/articles/2007/05/06/test-new-google-layout-for-yourself/ I was doing some searches tonight and at first I thought I was on the wrong site. It seems Google is testing out a new results page and I was lucky enough to get a first hand peak at it. Hopefully it doesn't disappear. This is one ... http://baxtr.com/articles/2007/05/02/new-google-search-results-layout/ Ok so I setup a blog, mainly to test out some new software and a our new server. However, now that its up I feed like I should actually use it and try to right a daily blog. Hopefully, I can think of something worth writing about. http://baxtr.com/articles/2007/04/21/i-need-to-find-something-worth-blogging-about/