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Archive for January, 2007

An Interesting Coincidence

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

I wrote Best Buy an e-mail last night about what I wrote about in the article immediately before this one. I told them I was sickened by the story and that I was going to link the story of his Best Buy woes on “my crumby little website that gets half a million hits […]

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Performance Service Plans. Ha.

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

Well. I’m a pretty strong opponent of “extended warranties” of any variety. Whenever I’m in “one of those stores” I usually tell the salesperson from the start that I am not interested and to save his/her breath.
So needless to say, I very rarely buy them. Since reading this story “very rarely” has […]

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Another Piece of Software Down The Toilet

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

I’ve tried a billion RSS aggregators. A long time ago I tried Google’s web-based reader and was really disappointed with it and ditched it. Apparently, they did a complete re-write of it not too long ago, and the new version is actually quite nice. It meets all my needs and hey - […]

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Bye Bye Isaiah

Friday, January 19th, 2007

I think we have a new definition of “stupid as a rock”.
Isaiah Washington, the actor who plays Dr. Preston Burke on Grey’s Anatomy had a little “spat” with one of his co-workers last season - a homosexual co-worker by the name of T.R. Knight who plays Dr. George O’Malley. Apparently words were exchanged on […]

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Interesting Trivia

Monday, January 15th, 2007

I just watched a History Television documentary about the Titanic. I saw “the movie” too, and clearly there are a lot of things in the movie that are not historically accurate, but one of the things that is in the movie is the band that played “Nearer My God To Thee” as the ship […]

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Apologies To Commenters

Friday, January 12th, 2007

I’m losing my mind.
About a month ago Akismet - the system that Wordpress uses to filter comment spam - had a brain fart. On that day, I think we had 200+ spam in one day and I had the system e-mailing one of my continuously monitored gmail accounts with copies of all the comments […]

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Whoops, Sorry Leo

Monday, January 8th, 2007

Those of us who are tired of Leo Laporte and how much he is in love with himself will enjoy this clip. I just wish it had happened to Pirillo.

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