Archive for the ‘internet’ Category
Monday, June 15th, 2009
Well as some of you know I had, up until a couple weeks ago, ceased being an early adopter of operating systems. As part of a better beta program from Microsoft I had been running Vista for a very long time, and other than a few frustrations, found it ...
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Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
Oh yes, I love eBooks. Small size, carry them anywhere Don’t dry out your hands on old paper No paper cuts 2 gig of library in eBook format is tiny. 2 gig worth of dead trees is ...
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Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
As you know, I’m a fan of GrandCentral, the one number for life follow me service that was acquired by Google back in July of 2007. The acquired it and basically told NOONE what they were doing with it.
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Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
According to Network World, “A federal court today spanked two telemarketers with some $1.2 million in civil penalties for violating the Federal Trade Commission's Do Not Call (DNC) Rule.” Read the full article here. Spam for the phone. I can’t escape it.
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Friday, January 23rd, 2009
Recently I took the opportunity to fire a contractor. His email address was very close to another address that I basically replaced him with. Outlook, being the helpful application that it is, “suggests” an address as you start typing. This, of course, is NOT good when that address is ...
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Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Let’s debate about the usage of the Wordpress more tag, or the split post. I use it to minimize the space each of my posts take up on my home page, thus leaving more and MOAR! space for more and diverse topics, so to speak.
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Monday, December 22nd, 2008
I read on Engadget today that Ballmer and the Redmond gang are going to extend the end of life date for XP until May 30th, of 2009. Netbooks can still get XP till June of 2010.
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Sunday, December 21st, 2008
I read about this around the first of the month but never finished the article. Procrastination for the win. (I sure am pulling a lot of information off of Web Worker Daily of late. I seem to have a lot of the same interests as one of the authors over ...
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Saturday, December 20th, 2008
I’m an avid reader. In this Aaron and I share a hobby, we even like many of the same authors. Our biggest difference is in the fact that I rarely ever read “dead trees,” I’ve been slowly migrating my pretty extensive collection of both hardbound and paperbacks to eBooks. This ...
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Friday, December 19th, 2008
I’ve been using DropBox. A lot. See my older post. Also, I still think that OneNote from Microsoft is one of the most killer applications to come from ANYWHERE, not just Redmond. Well, I have noticed traffic is way up on my blog here, and was wondering why.
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