Abbys Good Stuff Daily Blog

I’ve been on it less than a day, and I can already tell that it’s going to be better than other social media that I’ve tried – and tossed out. Google already has a ton of complimentary online services, like Gmail, Picasa, Google Docs, Calendar, Google Maps and YouTube… Google+ gives us a chance to [...]

  Over the last month or so, several people who live outside the USA or Canada have asked about getting freebies…   If you’ve been freebie hunting for a while, you’ve noticed that most of the offers on US-based websites are restricted to people living in the US.   While some are available to people [...]

When you’re ordering hundreds of freebies, there are good reasons to use a temporary email address instead of your personal, permanent email address. That’s the one that you really only want for your friends & family to use. Avoiding spam is the biggest reason to use a temporary email address, of course, but there is [...]

According to this article in The Telegraph, a court in Bombay has ruled that Astrology, the study of interplanetary alignments as the explanation for everything, is a credible science. Personally, as a tool for making sense of the universe, I think astrology is right up there with fortune cookies and reading entrails in usefulness and [...]

Living in E.Idaho, we’re used to cold weather, big snowdrifts and dressing in layers…  and while it’s even nastier in the midwest right now, I still hate getting in the car for the morning drive to work. Especially when the temperature is somewhere south of zero, and the least little puff of wind can make [...]

Over the last week or so all my ‘spare’ time has been devoted to moving abbys-good-stuff.com from our old webhost (1and1 – they suck) to the new webhost (HostGator – who most definitely Do Not suck)… Actually, I just want to take a minute and compare them in the area of customer service… I’ve had [...]

The move to a new web host is finished… it only took three or four days, but it seems like it was a lot longer. I’m VERY glad to be done with  1and1 webhosting – that is one company I will never recommend to anyone. We’ve signed up with HostGator and, while it’s only been [...]

I’ve been working on moving the website for several days now, and it’s getting to the point where I just want to put my head down on the desk and cry…. At first, it all seemed to be going well… all the bits -n- pieces seemed to be coning together like they are supposed to. [...]