My wife alerted me this morning to a $12 charge on our credit card.  The company that issued the charge is called Complete Savings.  I hopped on the Internet and started doing a little digging, and I immediately turned up some good returns.  It turns out that when you sign up for Pizza Hut delivery online, Pizza Hut feels it’s okay to sell your credit card information to 3rd parties.  Complete Savings, without our acknowledgement, signed us up for a discount program and charged our credit card $12.

We only used Pizza Hut delivery once and I can say with confidence we will not be using them again.  Now I have to wonder what else will be charged to my credit card.

Recently, my boy Jacob and I were doing some errands. A kind clerk with a mischevious smile gave Jacob a blue hard candy. I’m pretty sure, as you can see from the photo, the smile was for a good reason.

I like pizza. Especially since I’ve been dieting for some time now. Every once in a while I allow myself to cheat by taking my wife out for a nice dinner. I tend to like trying new places, but my wife usually likes the tried and true. Last weekend was different, though. She was in the mood for something new and we happened upon Mogio’s Gourmet Pizza while looking around. Pizza sounded good, so in we went.

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If you’ve developed for Flash for any amount of time, you’ll have noticed Flash has some annoying bugs. Last night, I learned of a new one. It took a while to narrow down with the amount of code I was working through and, as usual, I assumed it was something I was doing wrong.

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$14.99 is what I spent on this magazine. A brief glance and a CD inside convinced me to buy Flash & Flex Developer’s Magazine (Issue 1, Volume 1). Was it worth it? In a word: no.

Immediately I was struck by the title Flash & Flex; two of my favorite development platforms.  At first I balked at the price of $14.99, but then I saw some articles on interesting looking technologies I only new of by name. There were also a couple of articles that would be great to pass on to my fellow workers who are ActionScript 3.0 initiates.  I was sold and slapped down the money for the magazine.

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After posting my initial blog entry for robotninjamonkey.com, playing, poking, and giving the new WordPress for iPhone application a brutal staredown, I can honestly say it will have a place in my personal toolbox. That’s not to say it’s perfect, or even close, but it’ll do.

Immediately I was attracted to the idea that I could blog without resorting to draconian website mechanics and use an application that would streamline the blog posting process. Granted, on an iPhone, this is a relative statment. Fortunately, WordPress for iPhone serves up exactly what I needed. It’s very short on features right now, but the main items are there: multiple blog support, compose/modify blog, add pictures, set blog status, add tags and set a category.

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It’s been a long time coming, but I’ve finally gotten around to making a blog for my favorite domain. Why robotninjamonkey.com, you may ask? Well, it’s three out of four of my favorite things: robots, ninjas, and monkeys. I’m also fond of pirates, but robotninjamonkeypirate.com would just be silly.

I chose to use WordPress for two reasons: it’s simplicity, and there’s a spiffy iPhone application for it. I think having a dedicated application for entering my blogs with picture support will help keep me blogging.