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On DC’s beltway, you can easily spot trucks carrying concealed military equipment. All you have to do is to go about your business, and you will pass one or two semi trucks every day, each carrying some big payload wrapped in canvas. While the trucks are generic, the canvas isn’t. You will almost certainly find [...]
» Go to this post Here’s what will work, because it’s backed by law.
Unwanted phone calls
What I did to cut down on my telemarketing phone calls was to register with the National Do Not Call Registry (it’s free). I screen all my phone calls as well, through Caller ID and voicemail. I let telemarketers and phone numbers that [...]
Joseph Lewis: “I Lost $1 Billion in Bear Stearns” http://tinyurl.com/ysl7nv #
Magazines Behaving Badly http://tinyurl.com/2ubkfy #
Apple Introduces New AirPort Express with 802.11n http://tinyurl.com/2knuu6 #
Luck Is No Accident: 10 Ways to Get More out of Work and Life http://tinyurl.com/3ddrpu #
Lightroom 1.4 Update is Pulled http://tinyurl.com/2wg9e6 #
Useful Gadgets - The Hot and Cold USB Coaster http://tinyurl.com/2slhud #
Time Machine: [...]
Actual use for the WD My Book Pro: harvest hard drives to use in Drobo. Pretty much the only thing it’s good for. #
Bread and Coffee: 1909 http://tinyurl.com/2n5vga #
Firefox 3 may not be as fast as Safari, but at least it won’t mess up post formatting in WordPress. #
Precocious: 1923 (Check out the mud-covered feet…) [...]
I’ve been experiencing first-hand the following products and services lately, and I thought you might want to be spared the headaches they’ve given me and my family.
Macy’s furniture delivery service
If you like getting used/opened furniture that might have sat in someone else’s house and then got returned, or if you like waiting entire months to [...]
Given my recent push to find a feasible solution for my photo library, which resulted in the purchase of a Drobo (three, actually, but that’s beside the point), I’ve gotten to know a bit about hard drive prices. Here are my two cents on the issue.
Keep in mind that this advice is applicable only [...]
Background info
As midnight approached this past New Year’s Eve, I was busy working on a long-term project. I was about to move all of my content (every article and post I’d written) from comeacross.info to raoulpop.com. There were many reasons for this, but consolidation was the most readily apparent.
As detailed on my About page, I’d [...]
I had a conversation yesterday about this very topic that made me realize it’d make a great article. So here’s how to backup — and if needed, restore — both your Mac and PC in a pretty much foolproof sort of way.
Before I start, let me clarify three things.
First, using backup software does not necessarily [...]
Last year, I stumbled over the blog of one of the directors for the Ren & Stimpy cartoons, whose name isn’t worth mentioning here. I subscribed, curious to see what one of the people who’d worked on that horrible cartoon was doing nowadays. It didn’t take long for me to find out…
A few days later, [...]
If you’re a contact of mine on Twitter then you know that I’ve had our iMac in for service since last week — more precisely, since last Monday evening, 10/29/07. I finally got it back last night, on 11/7/07, after 10 days of in-store service with the Apple Geniuses. I thought the repair time was [...]
» Go to this postSo many traffic accidents happen when we don’t keep our proper distance from the cars in front of us. Here’s a simple equation to help you do just that:
Distance (in car lengths) = (Speed/10) - 1
Let me explain it. Say you’re going along at 20 mph — the distance between your car and that in [...]
In any other business but the web, if you heard the following things, how would you react?
A company is valued at $15 billion
Said company makes a nebulous product that is supposed to help connect people, but usually just wastes their time
Said product can be easily replaced (more effectively) by a simple email or [...]
