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Posted in Main on Oct 18th, 2008
Yesterday I borrowed my dad’s Ford Explorer to pick up our screen door that was getting repaired and getting a doggie door. I had never driven his vehicle before and boy was I in for a shock. I drive my Toyota Highlander or my wife’s Honda CRV, both of which are considered SUVs. Neither of [...]
Posted in Main on Oct 18th, 2008
Right after the new MacBook Pros got announced last week, I placed my order with a custom configuration (2.8 GHz and 320 GB 7200 RPM drive). I received a notice that it shipped on October 18. Now UPS tells me that my computer missed its flight “THE SCHEDULED FLIGHT WAS CANCELED DUE TO CIRCUMSTANCES BEYOND [...]
Posted in Main on Oct 14th, 2008
Like a good geek, I kept refreshing the live blogging of today’s Apple event. Based on the rumors I read, nothing was really shocking. Right after the store became available, I went ahead and used my developer discount (basically the select developer program cost is offset by the discount of the machine), selected a 2.8 [...]
Posted in Main on Oct 2nd, 2008
Yesterday I received a campaign flyer from Duncan D. Hunter for Congress and started looking at it, not to think that I’d vote for him, but to see why on this earth anyone would elect him. Our local newspaper had an article about our congressional district and how Hunter had a good chance of winning [...]
Posted in Main on Oct 2nd, 2008
With the recent events about the economy and how John McCain hurried back to Washington to help out in the deal, I started think about politicians doing the job they were elected to do. The presidential candidates and vice-presidential candidates are campaigning when they are supposed to be in Washington doing their jobs. We, the [...]
Posted in Main on Sep 24th, 2008
This summer was one of the slowest times I’ve had in the 5.5 years that I’ve been self employed. While there have been ups and downs, I actually considered taking a job in an office. I went through the whole interview process and was offered a position, but ultimately realized that I couldn’t give up [...]
Posted in Main on Sep 22nd, 2008
Both John McCain and Barack Obama have ideas on how to handle universal health care. Both plans are pretty weak in my opinion. McCain’s plan talks about giving each person a $2,500 tax credit to pay for insurance. That doesn’t pay for squat and requires that individuals actually qualify for insurance. As someone with a [...]
Posted in Main on Sep 10th, 2008
After one success with the Sanyo Pro-200, I began to feel confident that a phone based GPS would work. However, the following day, we used it again and I didn’t quite follow its directions, so it had to recalculate the route. Unfortunately it was far too slow at recalculating the route to be useful. It [...]
Posted in Main on Aug 29th, 2008
After our disaster with a smartphone based GPS yesterday, I was given another phone to try, this time not a smartphone, but a Sanyo Pro-200. We used the Sprint Navigation service and we were quite pleased with it. It gave us directions and spoke the turns. I took another look at the Treo 800w and [...]
Posted in Main on Aug 29th, 2008
My dad has some random HP Photosmart scanner and keeps running into problems with it and ReceiptWallet. His messages imply that it is an issue with ReceiptWallet and that very well may be the case. I looked at his ReceiptWallet log today and saw:
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