Free Refills & Why I Love America turned one year old today! The first post, besides the welcome message, was about the wonders of ice.
Over the last year there have been 256 posts–a paltry 10 percent of which are part of the “What Makes America Great” or “What Makes Europe Stink” lists. I’ll work more [...]
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Happy Birthday Free Refills & Why I Love America!
Welcome Wyoming!
Earlier this month I lamented the fact that no one from Wyoming had ever Free Refills & Why I Love America. I must admit I was a little hurt by this, particularly considering this blog has had visitors from pretty much everywhere else in the world. In response to this slight, I decided to proclaimed [...]
My least-favorite state
Over the last 6 months (since I installed Google Analytics), Free Refills & Why I Love America has had thousands of visitors from nearly every corner of the globe. Hits came from 6 continents, 75 countries and 49 states. Virtually every nation and state that is home to a McDonald’s sent visitors to this blog, [...]
A Free Refills & Why I Love America theme song?
I’ve never heard of a blog that had a theme song, but I suppose that is not a good reason to not have one.
Anyway, this landed in my inbox nearly a year ago but somehow slipped my mind until now. If there was ever a song that summed up the important differences between the US [...]
These two maps look shockingly similar
I was looking over my blog readership stats on my Google Analytics account earlier today when I noticed that the global distribution of hits to my website over last quarter looked shockingly familiar. It took me a moment to realize why the map looked so familiar.
Then it came to me: the heavy concentration of readers [...]
Housekeeping
Free Refills & Why I Love America has broken free of the shackles of Wordpress.com and moved to its own hosting.
The new hosting will allow a better blog, complete with a redesign (in progress) and more interactive features.
Hopefully everything will be up and running in the next few days. In the mean time, please [...]
Free Refills is moving to the Big Apple
The Midwest is where America can be found at its finest.
The cars and trucks are big, the houses bigger. Every township and country road is lined with drive-thrus and big-box stores. It gets just hot enough to require the liberal use of air conditioning every summer. All-you-can-eat buffets are only slightly less ubiquitous than [...]
Posting Updates
This weekend I will be traveling to NYC so posting could be slighly irregular.
I will, however, use the occasion to expand this site a bit. I want to include a bit more location-specific travel commentary. Expect things along the lines of last week’s post on Travel Tips for Europe, only a little more specific.
New layout
I spent some time today changing around the layout of the site. The changes are:
Switched to a 3-column layout
Created a new header that incorporates the site name into the image
Added an ongoing list of the things that make America great, [...]
