A Better, Bigger Deal

I’m pleased to announce the launch of my latest website: A Better, Bigger Deal.

As many of you remember, from April to December of last year, I wrote a second blog, for the local newspaper. Every Sunday I looked through the ads that ran in the Sunday paper, and picked out the best Deals on consumer electronics and computers.

Something always bothered me, though. I’d find what I considered to be the best deal of the week in the Sunday paper, and then find that even that deal was beaten by online retailers, especially Amazon.com. Of course, the idea was to promote the newspaper, so I couldn’t mention those sources. I felt like I wasn’t really bringing my readers the best information.

I also got tired of having an additional responsibility to fulfill every Sunday morning, on my day off. So in early December I quit.

A Better, Bigger Deal addresses those concerns. In it I will pull the best Deals from everywhere – the newspaper ads, online sources, or wherever else I happen to find them. Also, since online retailers don’t always follow Sunday-to-Saturday schedules, I plan on posting Deals as soon as I find them, hopefully far more often than once a week. So be sure to check back every day… for the first few Deals I’ll alert you on this blog that there’s a new Better, Bigger Deal to see.

In my first post, I take a look at inexpensive computers running the new Windows Vista operating system, and question whether they really qualify as Deals. Comments will be enabled on this blog, although I haven’t got them working yet… I’m using WordPress 2.1 to publish A Better, Bigger Deal and am still figuring out its nuances.

It’s also my first CSS-based web layout. I tested it in Firefox and IE 6; if you’re using a different browser and it looks funny, let me know.

So, check it out and be sure to bookmark www.better-bigger-deal.com.

P.S. I don’t know why the Sharp Dressed Bum post is there twice… I tried to log into Blogger and delete the extra one, but it doesn’t show up in my posts. I guess it’ll just have to stay there.