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Monthly Archives: November 2007
The Roomba Saga
I finally got tired of the dog hair around our house, so I decided to purchase a Roomba. I purchased the Roomba 560 as it had a number of features that I liked and with the 20% off coupon at … Continue reading
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When money gets in the way of donations
The mantra of many that want to reduce waste and help the environment is reduce, reuse, recycle and in that order. So today I tried to do the second step of reusing by donating some of my old stuff to … Continue reading
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What’s a Dog/Cat?
I went to purchase some heartworm medication for my dog through 1800PetMeds and when I went to select which pet it was for, I selected Marley (we only have one pet) and the following came up: I know that I … Continue reading
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Installing SlimServer on an AppleTV
One of the services I needed to move off my server before shutting it down was SlimServer which runs my Squeezeboxes. I had looked at a few small PCs that were ultra quiet and as I was looking at the … Continue reading
Fixing a microwave with soap
One of the problems with being an engineer is that I have ideas on how to fix things and it takes a lot for me to have someone else fix things. Lately we’re been having problems with our microwave door … Continue reading
Lets’ spy on the competition
Today I saw that NEAT Receipts has provided more information on their Mac version, and here. Just about a month ago, the founder of NEAT Receipts (or one of his employees) purchased a copy of ReceiptWallet and DocumentWallet. At first … Continue reading
Tagged Programming, Software
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Email and DNS Services turned off!
I’m pleased to say that I’m out of the DNS and email services businesses. I’m now relying on GoDaddy for DNS and some of my email forwarding and Google/Gmail for email. While it may seem risky to rely on Google’s … Continue reading
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One year of selling ReceiptWallet
Yesterday marked the 1st anniversary of ReceiptWallet! When I started ReceiptWallet, it was simply out of my own desire for a program to keep track of my receipts. A lot has happened in one year and I’m quite pleased with … Continue reading
Outrageous sales tax rate
We were in the Chicago airport yesterday and had lunch. I almost fell off my chair (that seems to happen often with me) when I saw the tax on the bill. It was 10.22%. Wow, that is like VAT in … Continue reading
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The end of running my own server
After many years of running my own server, it is finally time for me to wind things down and let the professionals maintain my server tasks. Monday, while away in New Jersey, my mail server stopped responding. I tried to … Continue reading
Tagged Technology
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