2008 May

I take support phone calls all day. Most of the customers I deal with are nice, but some call and have a bad attitude from the beginning of the call. They are usually angry because they feel my company has wronged them somehow. Naturally, they take it out on me. I understand being angry to [...]

In times like these where food and gas costs more, it’s time to have a look at those credit card statements to see what can be slashed. I recently looked at mine, and I was shocked at what an idiot I’ve been when it comes to the services I subscribe to. $13 here and $10 [...]

In the Fall of 2006, this story hit about the discovery of a huge amount of Oil by Chevron in the Gulf of Mexico. I know it takes years to get this oil to market, but in this time where we seem to have an “oil crisis” as said on CNBC, you’d think that you’d [...]

Todd Davis, the guy you see on TV and hear on the radio giving his Social Security number out to everybody in order to pitch his Lifelock product, has had his identity stolen. Somebody was able to take out a payday loan in the amount of $500 under his name, raising doubts as to whether [...]

I watched Robert Kennedy Jr. on Letterman recently, and I liked what he had to say about why we have to do something about the environment. One of his main points was related to Sweden and their goal to be oil free by 2020. Since starting the program, the Sweden economy has been soaring. Iceland [...]

I recently rediscovered many of the NES and SNES games that I loved as a kid by using emulators on my PC. The experience brought back many memories. So when I spotted an NES at a garage sale recently, I jumped at the chance to buy it along with a few games. I hooked it [...]

The spell check feature in Firefox is a favorite of many users. This capability isn’t built into IE 7, but you can enable it using a plug-in.
IE Spell is a useful plug-in that will enable spell check capability in any forms you fill out within Internet Explorer. Download it here.

If you are an American living in the United States, you might not want to complain too loud about gas prices. People from other countries might hear you and laugh. The United States ranks 45th out of 155 countries in price paid for gas. Americans also pay less than half of what they do in [...]

I had an exciting night last night. I was sitting in my office writing an article when I heard police cars in the distance. Then they got closer and louder. Then even louder until they were right next to my apartment. I then heard somebody running up to the building and entering, then running up [...]

This morning I was working with a company to try to get their software up and running. All we had to do was delete 1 file from the hard drive of their Windows laptop and all would’ve been jolly. When we looked on the C drive however, we couldn’t find the Program Files folder. It [...]