Archive for July, 2004

Women. You Can’t Live With ‘Em And You Can’t Shoot ‘Em

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A friend of mine was telling me about her e-mail storage woes, so I offered her an account here at poweredbycoffee.net. She was trying to get Outlook working, and was having no joy, so reluctantly, I loaded Outlook and proceeded to hold her hand through the configuration process.
I walked her through a near foolproof [...]

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Great Site For Plane Nerds

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Notice I didn’t say plain nerds, I said plane nerds.
Rarely is it that I click on a banner ad. (I’ll pause so you can all gasp). But I did. Boeing was running ads on avsim.com advertising their new site publicizing the new Boeing 7E7 Dreamliner, set to replace the 737 and 757 [...]

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Geeeze Louise

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A month or a few weeks ago with much laud and fanfare, pomp and circumstance, it was announced that Rogers (my internet service provider) and Yahoo were now allies in the virtual world.
“Experience the Internet as it was meant to be, just for you. As a Rogers Hi-Speed Internet customer you’ll continue to get fast [...]

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Thursday Quick Takes

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Will he make it a month? Will he go a full month without blogging? We’ll know by Sunday. Stay tuned for the “George Costanza Is Dead” simul-cast live from the mighty poweredbycoffee.net.
For those cat lovers among you, I have uploaded a gallery of photos of my feline herd. It is available [...]

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Deja Vu and Twilight Zone All Rolled Into One

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I haven’t blogged about this yet because I’ve been quite disturbed about it. Nobody else seems to be taking me seriously, but I should be used to that by now.
On Monday, I went to Long & McQuade in Oshawa to setup a rental for the next couple of weeks. That’s really of no [...]

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Stupid Is As Stupid Does

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I’ve had a horrible day. But when I read this I just couldn’t stop laughing. You all know how much I love Nigerian 419 e-mail frauds. This guy hit the perpetrators back. And how.

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And A Fun Time Was Had By All

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[Editor's Note: I'm going to be Mr. Sound Geek here for a minute. If you have no interest in sound reinforcement, I suggest skip this article.]
A friend of mine is the head audio uber-geek at one of the local churches in town. They just got a new toy recently and I’ve been angling [...]

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