Category: General
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Thanks Microsoft
It is nice when a company recognizes that decisions they made many years ago no longer make sense. Reinstalled XP this evening with the retail disk I have laying around but could not activate since the key is OEM. Such a bother they ever set this up. Well there is a tool for fixing this,…
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T-Mobile Fail
Went to check on the cell account and was informed that my password did not meet their requirements. So, using lastpass I generated a very strong password but when I tried to use it I informed of the follwing, the password: Must be at least 8 characters long. Must contain both letters and numbers. Must…
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eMusic update
Checked back earlier this week and they have finally gotten the link for downloading the track fixed, only took a 6 weeks. If I did not keep finding more music there that I want to get I would just cancel, this almost sounds like an ad but really, they have been adding quite a lot…
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eMusic FAIL
I have been a subscriber to eMusic.com for at least a couple year now, I have always been pleased with the experience, good music, good price and downloading music was simple. They recently redesigned their website and it is now and complete disaster. I can no longer download in either Firefox or Chrome which limits…
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ABC News fail
Just posted this on Facebook: ABC news just said the satellite that is going to deorbit next week is going to “burn up when it hits the scorching hot ring that surrounds the Earth.” Wow, they should not report science topics when they don’t know something as simple as why objects falling to Earth from…
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Washington’s newest teacher!
Three long years and finally she is done, now we wait for the official papers.
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New Olympia flea market
Friend recently launched a new site. It is a for a flea market/bazaar in Olympia which he is setting up, it is called Olymarket. Have to check it out next month.
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Reality is for suckers
I had started this a while and forgot to publish it, so a little old but that does not mean the idea has lost merit. Saw a reference to an interesting post over at John Dvorak’s site today. He was referring to an editorial which appeared at the The Independent, a British publication. A very…
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An interesting article
Found this BBC article today and figured others would find it interesting also. On the site I found it at I was looking at some of the comments and began to wonder, were we reading the same thing? To each their own I guess.
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Taxes update
Took a look at my T-Mobile wireless bill this weekend and the city utility tax charge is still there, bit more than bothersome that. I did a little searching and found that Olympia levies a 9% taxes on phone service. So I called them up again asking where I can send information showing that my…
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City taxes
Something for those of you out there who don’t live in a city. I was just looking at my cellular bill and noticed they are charging me a City Utility Users Tax. Well, I do not live in the city and feel that I pay enough in sales taxes which I cannot avoid to the…
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Convert .tod to mpg
Finally found a quick way to convert the .tod files which my JVC camcorder produces into the much more usable mpg format. I have tried the ffmpeg method but when I use that the resulting files cannot be opened in my editing program which does me no good. This same editing program also has a…
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As they say, don’t talk politics
I was chatting with a friend at work Thursday afternoon when someone who sits nearby joined in. Somehow the discussion turned to government regulations and after a short while this other guy was getting quite angry about this topic. There was no way to just discuss this with him, his viewpoint appeqrs to be the…
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Mariners game
Heading back to Tacoma on the sounder train. Very cool, free parking and an hour ride to Seattle. The only drawback is the train leaves Seattle only 35 minutes after the final out which does give much time to hang out. Perhaps next time will go north on the train and then take the bus…
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Global warming?
I have been hearing a lot more talk lately about how global warming is bunk. Or that if it is happening then mankind is not to blame, that what is happening is just part of a natural cycle. Let’s look at it this way instead, no matter how one feels about this topic the actions…
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First post from ipod
Just trying this out, picked up the wordpress app for for my iPod. Pretty nice can do all usual stuff on the blog and I don’t have turn on the big computer. I am being so green.
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Odd phone call – scam?
Just got a call from “cardholder services” letting me know I could lower my interest rate to 6.9%, just press nine to talk to operator. I was curious so I bit, first thing I ask the person who comes is what bank are you from and her reply is what card do you have? OMG!!…
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My 15 minutes?
I think that I got my 15 minutes of fame today, while listening to one of my favorite podcasts, The Daily GizWiz, a letter I sent was read out. A couple weeks ago I had sent in a letter asking Leo Laporte to not sing with the jingles, when I was listening episode 769 in…
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Google vs Live search
Sometimes we hear about how google searches are no longer any good and Microsoft likes to make it sound like their search is so great but every time I use Windows Live search I am disappointed and when the same search is run at google I generally find what I need on the first page.…
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Circuit city going away
and I am not sad about that, except for the employees, this sucks for them. I quit going to Circuit City when they started that DIVX disk idiocy, that was a bad to begin with and died the death it deserved. The few times I did go in the local store I was typically frustrated,…