Posted on December 9th, 2008
I had one of life’s little victories today when I saw that a nearby store sells wooden clothespins without any plastic packaging. This isn’t that surprising since I am presently living in a place where most people do not have clothes dryers. We only use clothespins in the kitchen and on the clothesline but other people seem to find a lot of weird and wonderful tasks for these pinchy little bits of wood and metal. The strangest purpose that I saw on this list was clipping back spaniel ears to keep them out of the gravy train.
I have occasionally used clothespins to clip cords and stuff to my computer desk but there doesn’t seem to be any need with my present arrangement.
Posted on December 2nd, 2008
I recently got kinda almost scammed. You may have recently noticed a small advertisement in my sidebar that was promoting a wonderful web hosting company that uses solar and wind power to operate their servers. I joined their affiliate program after reading their sales pitch. The idea of having carbon neutral hosting appealed to me. I didn’t go so far as to move my hosting, even though they were selling me hard on it. I have a very reliable host and I would recommend them to a friend.
When I started to lay the groundwork to really promote this great company the next day a funny thing happened. I tried to load their website and it wasn’t there. In fact it is still down after a few days of checking. At first, I joked with Catherine that it must be dark where they are, but after thinking about the situation for awhile I started to get perturbed. Obviously, I am no longer interested in trying to sell this web hosting service to my readers.
I guess the lesson that I can take from this is to be skeptical of companies that are trying to cash in on environmental idealism.
