Amazon.com, friend to stalkers everywhere, offers a syndicated feed of every single thing every person on the site purchases. Go into your profile and look. Unless you disabled it, they are probably publishing a list of everything you purchased as well. Here is an example.

I understand it to some extent as a curiosity. If I were to see, say, a list of books my favorite author had purchased, I might be more inclined to read them. But I am not sure I understand the need for average Joes such as you and me.

Most of what I buy on Amazon isn’t even for me!

Anyway, if Amazon is syndicating your purchases, go ahead and post the feed as a comment so I can stalk you properly!

Good new! Amazon just added the perfect bound version of The Seller Ledger: An Auction Organizer for Selling on EBay to their “4-for-3 promotion.” Basically, anytime you purchase 4 eligible books, one of them becomes free! This offers is only for a limited time but for now, you might be able to score a copy for free if you take advantage of this. More info on this promotion can be found here.

Now for the stalkerific part. Ever wondered what I purchase when I shop online? No? Well, apparently, Amazon wants to tell you anyway!

For reasons known only to them Amazon know offers a syndicated feed of every single thing I purchase on their site. No, this does not make me special, they are probably doing it for you as well right this very second you just don’t realize it. But I thought you might enjoy taking a quick look at it all the same.

I should add the disclaimer that many of the things that I purchase on Amazon are gifts for other people and that I do a lot of my shopping elsewhere online like Ebay (where I just purchased packing tape and a music kit for my new cell phone in the last week). I just don’t want you to think I am a hardcore James Bond fan when you look at this. (That would be my husband and those would be his Christmas presents.)

Unfortunately, I cannot excuse away some of the other things. I have the musical tastes of a tween girl and an unhealthy addicition to computer games. Now you know the truth.

Anyway, if you find yourself curious, take a look below.

So I was doing some big improvements to my other websites and, for fun, I decided to add some little features to this one.

Firstly, if you direct your eyes to the left navbar, you can now subscribe to this blog either in your favorite RSS reader OR by email. I noticed that one early bird already did this since I added this feature yesterday so kudos to you! This way you will know as soon as I post something. Grovvy! I am all about Google Reader lately so I would recommend that one but you can use any of them really. Oh and you can also add it to your Google homepage if you use the customized homepage feature.

Incidentally, for those of you that were having trouble making my site work with your RSS reader, using the link there might work better than what you tired before. I think the issue is that this domain is on another domain’s hosting and for some reason some links work bizarrely and the xml link was no exception. It makes no sense to me either.

Also, if you look farther down on the navbar, there is a new little section called "Where I Waste Time" which are my favorite sites to bop around on when I should be doing work. Good times!

Lastly, with the exception of Mary’s Red Nose blog many of the blogs of my friends have been abandoned or at least just not updated in a very long time so that link section is a little sad. I know there are more friends and acquaintances of mine lurking and reading this blog because you sometimes mention it offline. If you have a blog that you do update at least once a year, let me know and I will add it to the links!