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Comcast Sucks
When we first moved to Arizona, I splurged and bought a Tivo. It was an old one, and it was wonderful. Worked great, super intuitive interface, great integration. Back then it had to call Tivo every day to get the latest listings. In 2006 or so, we went HD, and upgraded to a Series 2…
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Apple Mail Madness
A bit of a rant here, sorry. I use Google for my personal domain(s) email service. Google Apps is a good deal, even for the two accounts my wife and I use. Solid performance, wicked good junk filtering, and they do a great job of detecting phishing and spearphishing attacks. I use the Apple mail…
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Saying Goodbye to a Faithful Friend
It is with sadness in my heart that I must announce the passing of my Cateye Enduro 2 cycling computer. I acquired it in early 2002 when I bought my road bike, and it has been a rugged companion since then, logging and recording over 9,000 miles on the bike. It was not the first…
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Pleasant Surprise – Cell phone
Yesterday I had a great experience at the local AT&T store, and I have to share. My wife has been a Verizon customer forever. She chose them way back because they had better coverage where she spent a lot of her time. Being somewhat of a luddite, she has been using a flip phone (a…
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Going legit. Real photoshop
I have an admission to make. I have long been a scofflaw. I have been a Photoshop pirate. I am not proud of this. And indeed am somewhat ashamed. But to be fair, I haven’t used it for professional purposes, and mostly have used it to re-sample images for use on the web. I have…
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Family Tech Support
A couple of days ago, as I was fading into a jet-lag induced foggy sleep, my wife complained that her laptop (A 13″ MacBook Pro, probably 4 years old) was getting slow on email. I knew that it had about 1/3 of the disk free (about 90 gigs) so it wasn’t running out of space.…
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Google Authentication Shenanigans
Is it me, or has google been fucking with their gmail authentication today? I swear it has kicked me off my webmail 4 or 5 times today. Won’t remember which accounts are logged in. At one time it got me stuck in an authentication loop. Over and over, prompting for my password. Grrrrr. This has…
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My online history
My blogging/online history I started blogging late, in 2009. I was stuck in a bad job, that had gotten much worse due to some serious political wrangling by the executive suite. At first I just grabbed a wordpress.com site, and made a couple of posts that were really not meant to be read by anybody.…
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My history with e-Readers
I am a gadget person. I have always loved tech, and have often been on the leading edge of trends and an early adopter. One category that I dove into head first was the e-Reader trend. I first stumbled across them in 2006, when Sony launched the PRS 500. I didn’t jumped then, but I…
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e-Reader – Beginning to Cave
I am an avid reader. I started in high school, voraciously reading science fiction. I can get through 3 or more Sci Fi novels in a week. I used to be a frequent visitor to the used book stores. The advent of eBooks was a godsend. Instead of raiding the used book stores, and carrying…