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Sorry – not sorry
Today is July 4th, a holiday in the USA, and a day off for many people who live here. I was shopping at a big box store this morning and at checkout the person ahead of me told the cashier – I am sorry you have to work today. If that was a sincere pity,…
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Manage your expectations!
I was looking for a cheap shogi (Japanese chess) as a starter set to learning how to play. I found nice looking plastic one on Amazon for about $20. I looked at the reviews and I do not know why I still become surprised by some of the expectations people describe in their reviews. For…
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Double that plus more is NOT “a little more”!
Few weeks ago we had a salesman from Illinois Energy come to the house to give us an appraisal for the replacement of few windows and couple of glass sliding doors. In addition to asking random personal questions, irrelevant to what he does or sells, his presentation and presence lasted just about two and a…
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Server scalability and Oxbury Publishing.
Currently Hive Minds Hosting is hosting Oxbury Publishing, including their other web properties. As the company business is growing, and it is expending in to customized reports and articles, delivered via newsletter, I know that the current server will not be able to handle the load of newsletter campaigns that are going to take place.…
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Check your pizza before you pay.
And this is why you should check your pizza before you pay!
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GoDaddy discount lacks the discount. It’s OK though.
Last week I was contacted by a GoDaddy company representative by the name of Logan, who provided me with a list of my expiring domains until the end of the year, informed me that he has been assigned to my account and can offer me a discount. I responded to him by asking for more…
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I was right! Buy Yahoo stock.
Last week I tweeted that Yahoo’s stock was at $10 per share and it was time to buy. Comments on my tweet said that it is pointless to do so. As I was on my way to New York, I wasn’t able to provide a response to the comments. With today’s reports about Yahoo’s CEO,…
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No smoking for you! Not in this car.
Recently Amanda and I went car shopping. Now that Alexandar is growing bigger and we are planing on having a family expansion we needed something other than the Jeep. So, we went looking at minivans. After looking at the 5th minivan I was becoming more and more bored of the activity and pretty much all…
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Following Woot. A whole day wi…
Following Woot. A whole day with some sweet deals.