Author Archives: Brian Alvey

Since my blog is one of the top results for searches on “man I feel like a woman chevy commercial” (okay, it’s the number one result), I figured I should be the one to announce our newest Weblogs, Inc. site: Autoblog. It’s packed with news for anyone interested in cars, trucks and everything in between andContinue reading “Get your motor running, Autoblog”

I was on a site that still serves banner ads earlier today — one of the ten remaining sites that hasn’t switched to Google AdWords — and I saw an ad that started out completely white. Slowly a bunch of letters rotated in place to reveal the message, “Seize the week.” In the next frame,Continue reading “Seize the week!”

I remember it like it was yesterday: “On May 17, 1814, the Norwegian Constitution was signed, giving Norway independence from its 500 year union with Denmark. That request came from his wife. Deep down he knew she was right. But he also knew that someday he would return to her. With nowhere else to go,Continue reading “Syttende Mai”

As I watched Derek Jeter toss a ball to a young Yankees fan who was sitting front row at Fenway Park this afternoon, I imagined that the kid might go home thinking Derek Jeter is his new best friend. Maybe he’ll get calls from Derek on his cell phone, but Derek will have to suddenlyContinue reading “Darby Conley is my best friend”

In November of 2001, I was the best man in a wedding at The Ocean Club in the Bahamas. It was scheduled to be an outdoor wedding, but a hard rain was falling and a hurricane was only days away. The hurricane would hit after we had safely traveled home and wipe out enough of the clubContinue reading “The Dune Breakfast and The McGriddle”

The Onion Boxed Set Winners Dan Benjamin of Cary, NC (via www.zeldman.com) Alexis Clay of Jacksonville, FL (via mylnd.blogspot.com) Sean Uberoi Kelly of Seattle, WA (via karenluk.typepad.com) Kat Kinsman of Brooklyn, NY (via www.quietconfusion.com) Scott Kubie of Des Moines, IA (via www.geeklife.com) Thank you, Three Rivers Press!

Slappa HardBody CD Case Grand Prize Winner Angela Mabray of Yukon, OK (via www.deepsun.com) Slappa Runner-up Prize Winners Joshua Bean of Winston-Salem, NC (via www.ewall.org) Monica Horton of Suwanee, GA (via www.welchwrite.com) Dottie Priolo of Salinas, CA (via www.webspiffy.com) Stephanie Rossi of San Francisco, CA (via www.pseudo-cyb.org) Spencer Dylan Smith of Oak Lawn, IL (via www.geeklife.com) Your rugged, velvet-lined CD casesContinue reading “They call it Slappa, Slappa, Slappa…”

The Weblogs, Inc. Network (WIN) is built to let me roll out a new weblog in minutes. Adding a new blogger takes even less time (but getting the time to give them a tour of the system and pick their brains about their editorial plans and hidden talents takes me weeks). Adding an entirely newContinue reading “Happy New Gear!”

On one of my other Web sites, they’re trying out a new project and communications management system for small teams called Basecamp. Built by the 37 Signals team, Basecamp claims to be “simple, elegant, powerful, fast, and usable” and it is. Some of the things Basecamp does already exists in a similar form in my Weblogs, Inc.Continue reading “All your Basecamp belong to us?”

I recently had an idea for an international murder mystery in which a noted cryptographer and a famed symbologist untangle dozens of clues that had been hidden in old ’80s songs and I couldn’t decide between my two favorite titles: “The Depeche Code” and “The Bon Jovi Code.” As I did more research on Depeche Mode and Bon Jovi I discovered thatContinue reading “The Bon Jovi Code (or Wanted Dead Or Alive)”