Dan Baxter 2.0

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.

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 famous people like Kirk Douglas, and Donald Trump.

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 try out the new design for yourself.

• First click the following link: www.google.com/ncr
• Next copy and past the following javascript code into your browsers address bar and hit enter.
javascript:document.cookie=”PREF=ID=9d04e374b01fd77c:TM=1177187296:LM=1178229339:DV=AA:GM=1:IG=3:S=Iiqx5SsQA0p79zvy;path=/; domain=.google.com”
• Now try doing a Google search, you should have the new layout set in your cookies. If you would like to revert back the normal layout simple clear out your Google cookies.

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 of the most drastic style changes that Google has ever made. It has a very YouTube inspired look. However, I’m not sure I can get use to all the white space on the left. Has anyone else seen this 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.