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I’ve just got to say what I’m about to say, because it’s gnawing at me [...]
Our medical insurance policy is with Cigna. We’re on the Open Access Plus plan. After I renewed my Cigna policy recently, I got our new insurance cards, and noticed that the premiums and copays increased as follows:
PCP Visit ($20 vs $15)
Specialist ($40 vs $30)
Hospital ER ($100 vs $50)
Urgent Care ($50 vs $25)
Rx ($10/25/50 vs $10/20/45)
Those [...]
» Go to this postActual 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 want to focus in on a few, very specific ways in which companies waste money and energy. I see the following things happen daily in the workplace. They’re not specific to any company. Chances are that if you visit any American company, they’re probably doing at least one of these things.
Lights are left on [...]
16 Bit Versus 8 Bit Mode http://tinyurl.com/2snass #
Is Silverlight 2 catching up with Flash? http://tinyurl.com/362kcc #
BlueArc’s Titan is Flexing Petabytes http://tinyurl.com/3a357r #
About a company that really knows how to leave a mess http://tinyurl.com/3cxwhn #
California court threatens homeschoolers http://tinyurl.com/3abrco #
Ziff Davis Media Files For Bankruptcy Protection http://tinyurl.com/28eocr #
Where a Dollar Will Get You http://tinyurl.com/2xmh3b #
Reduce, Reuse, [...]
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 [...]
A bit of a health theme to this edition of condensed knowledge:
A new CPR technique was discovered. It’s called OAC-CPR (Only rhythmic Abdominal Compression). As its name implies, you only press on the abdomen, eliminating the risk of broken ribs, mouth-to-mouth, and fatigue from pushing so hard. Definitely worth looking into this!
Prozac found in the [...]
Two easy steps are involved with this:
Take 90 minutes to watch Dave Ramsey’s video entitled “Dumping Debt“. It was posted to YouTube in 10-minute segments. Here they are: Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 - Part 8 - Part 9. This [...]
» Go to this postI liked the Volkswagen “Unpimp your ride” commercials instantly when they came out. I’ve always liked clean lines and elegant cars. I think “pimped” cars are in truly bad taste. The mods are almost always done for the wrong reasons, and usually only to show off in garish fashion. The poor cars end up looking [...]
» Go to this postQuick note: for those of you already using Zooomr, this may be old news, so skip to the ending paragraphs. I thought a recap of what’s been going on with the site since my last post will help everyone else figure out where Zooomr stands.
Updated 10/29/2007: I’ve revised my opinion of Zooomr since I wrote [...]
When I think of embarrassing ads, I’m hard-pressed to find better examples than the ones I’m about to show you. These have to be embarrassing, for both the viewer and the people in them.
And when I think of people who’ve embarrassed themselves plenty in corny ads, it pains me to say that Arnold Schwarzenegger’s at [...]
Updated 10/29/2007: I’ve revised my opinion of Zooomr since I wrote this. See “Taking a break from Zooomr” for the details.
Zooomr’s long awaited Mark III release launched last night, only to have their database server go out about 10 minutes after the live launch. We’ve all been frustrated by the long migration period and the [...]
