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iGoogle-a-Phobia

I don’t iGoogle
I’m boring…I admit it.
I don’t often admit to such things but…
…I’m finally admitting it–
…I’m boring.
And… .
..I don’t iGoogle.
It scares me.
I don’t even sign in unless I want to look at my AdSense or Google Reader…
…and when I’m finished…
I sign right back out again.
It’s just the plain-old-boring "not-signed-in" Classic Google [...]

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A Tin Foil Hat

Yup, I got me a tin foil hat now. I resisted it as long as I could but it was all in vain, I finally had to give in. It was the dreaded Murphy Signal! (AAAGGGHHHH!!), the straw that finally broke this camel’s back.
The Murphy Signal! (AAAGGGHHHH!!)…That miserable wireless Internet connection killer that takes out [...]

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Dead Internet

For those of you waiting for a reply to a comment or perhaps another one of my fine posts, I’m sorry…you’ll just have to wait some more. The reason for this is that for the last 2 days my computer refuses to hook up to any wireless connection put out by our DSL wireless router [...]

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Recession? What Recession?

Is there a recession in progress? Nah…what makes you think that?
Shortly after 8 a.m., the Fed announced yet another measure meant to unlock the struggling credit markets. At 8:30, the Labor Department released the unexpectedly poor jobs report. Almost immediately, the economists at JPMorgan Chase — who only last week had told clients they thought [...]

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AT&T-How Not to do Business

So what does a major telcom do when it finds it’s DSL business flagging? Why raise the price for those particular services by $5.00 dollars that’s what they do. AT&T is in the news again by making it’s already flagging, poor quality broadband services even worse by increasing the price of those services. Makes sense [...]

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The Problems Inherent in Doing a News Post

I started the day off with a "latest news" type post and in the making of this post (by bantering around the news sites and listing the most interesting stuff I could find for your reading pleasure) a friend of ours stopped by wanting to use me and my Internet connection to book tickets from [...]

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Boomers living through the Technology Boom. Could we do without?

Rhea of the Boomer Chronicles put up a rather thought provoking post about how she’s outlived a lot of computer technology and since we’re both around the same age, I had to sit and ponder about this for a bit. Then I left a rather long comment (who me?) that reflected these pondering’s of mine [...]

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Our DSL Has Ice in it’s Works

Just a quick post here to let everyone know that I haven’t disappeared at all but rather due to this incessant snow we’ve been having, our DSL apparently formed ice in it’s innards making it cut out all the time.
So until we regain a bit more reliability in our Internet connection I have been reduced [...]

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