Archive for May, 2007
I’ll never miss an opportunity to bash the New York Yankees, especially when the target is as juicy as Alex Rodriguez. According to a gossip column in today’s New York Daily News, Rodriguez’s wife, Cynthia, packed up and left when he was out on the town with a buxom blond. The News reports: “In New [ READ MORE ]
Here’s the music video for Common’s first single off his new album, “Finding Forever”. The song is produced by Kanye West. [ READ MORE ]
For the first time ever, DanielHonigman.com topped the 100 visitor plateau, thanks in part to Chicago 2016 news, a link from the Wall Street Journal and a review of JohnChow.com. Here are my Google Analytics stats for May 30, 2007: Here’s a chart of who sent me visitors: Thanks a lot, folks. And you’re the reason [ READ MORE ]
Looks like Chicago’s going to have some tough competition. Earlier today, the Spanish Olympic Committee approved Madrid’s bid as its official candidate for the 2016 Olympic Games, two years after losing to London for the 2012 Games. Madrid placed third out of five cities for the 2012 Games. The Madrid bid committee still has to file [ READ MORE ]
I got an idea from Jason Neuman’s blog about how to increase one’s Technorati rank. Just follow these instructions: ———copy and paste the Viralink and instructions below this line——— Below is a matrix of 120 stars, I have already added a link to my blog onto one of the stars, all you need to do is [ READ MORE ]
In a Sun-Times report today, Monifa Thomas writes that the Chicago Transportation Authority mulled around some ideas to help get rid of its $97.5 million budget gap yesterday. One plan, she said, was to raise bus and train fares to $7 during rush hour. If the CTA did this, then any claims that Chicago is a “green” [ READ MORE ]
Kudos to the editorial staff of the University of Washington’s “Daily.” In yesterday’s paper, an editorial raised an interesting suggestion: How about Al Gore waits until 2012 to run for president, but on the Green Party ticket. Citing Gore quotes from the Time Magazine story, “The Last Temptation of Al Gore”, it is obvious, the editorial [ READ MORE ]
I was just checking out some of the sites that have been sending some traffic my way when I saw an interesting addition: The Wall Street Journal. Listed in my new Google Analytics, I saw that a piece on my site from last week, “IOC says logo fiasco won’t hurt Chicago 2016 bid,” was [ READ MORE ]
Here’s the video for Kanye West’s first single off his upcoming album, “Graduation.” Enjoy: [ READ MORE ]
I called in on the Chicago Access Network Television show, “Muhammad and Friends,” hosted by Munir Muhammad. (Don’t laugh. I was drawn in by the John Coltrane rendition of “My Favorite Things” during the break.) Muhammad, appointed by Governor Rod Blagojevich to the Illinois Human Rights Commission in 2003, had Chicago Deputy Police Superintendent [ READ MORE ]