Reflections
Top 5 Super Bowl Party Fouls To Avoid
This Sunday will be the largest party held here in the U.S., all taking place in our living rooms. The party is a yearly celebration of the Super Bowl, which is featuring the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers, both vying for the championship. But before the party starts, you should be aware of [...]
Text And Drive Software And Apple
This is a guest blogging post by Erik Wood, the founder of Otter, LLC. Since my young daughter was nearly run down right in front of me by a texting driver, I have been pursuing tangible change to the text and drive epidemic. Our texting management app called OTTER (One Touch Text Response) has a [...]
‘Pick-A-Payment’ Mortgage Class Action Settlement – What A Joke This Is!
I am like many of you who have been dismayed on how our banking institutions nearly ruined not only the economy here in the U.S., but also of the world. What is even more disturbing is that none of the people who caused the banking crisis nor the crisis on Wall Street, have been brought [...]
N.Y. State Senator Breaks Leg At Home Under Construction, Then Sues Builder And Homeowner
During the past few years, our confidence in our U.S. lawmakers has come into question for their ethics. One would think that when we vote for these people to regulate our states, that one of the qualifications would be their common sense. So when I read an article about one New York State senator suing [...]
Will Super Wi-Fi Become A Reality?
For the past few years, Google has led the fight for what is called Super Wi-Fi. Super Wi-Fi would use the ‘white spaces’ which is unused broadcast spectrum to utilize high-speed wi-fi. But before you get excited there are still some issues that need to be addressed, including the TV broadcasting stations who believe this [...]
Seagate: “SSD Drives Are Not A High Priority.” – Are SSD Drives Decades Away?
Check the bottom of this article for additional information from Seagate Seagate has jumped off the SSD bandwagon and may have put a nail in the SSD coffin for now. It seems that the mega hard drive company does not believe that SSD is even worth the effort. The company cites that building a manufacturing [...]
Train Station Closes Public Restrooms – Passengers Pissed Off
At the New Rochelle, New York train station, passengers are having to hold it because the public restrooms have been closed. It seems that the city fathers and daughters have decided that keeping the pee holes open is way to expensive, so that have closed them for public use. This means that passengers, taxi drivers, [...]
Do You Pay Your State Sales Tax For Items Purchased On The Internet?
I was reading an article in The Seattle Times, Business / Technology section, concerning Amazon and a distribution center they built in the state of Tennessee. It seems that Amazon received free land and tax incentives from the state in order to entice Amazon to build the warehouses. When the distribution center was completed the [...]
House In Idaho Listed For $66k Less Than Market Value – Snake Infested
The American dream of home ownership has taken a hit during the past few years, as foreclosures and bankruptcies have flooded the real estate industry. So in most cities there is now a glut of properties usually priced below what they once commanded during the heyday of high prices. But one real estate company seems [...]
Has The Anonymity Of The Internet Changed Us?
I read an article this weekend written by a sports writer for Sports Illustrated with a story about some of the comments he had received from one person. The comments were derogatory but also the person baited the writer into thinking he was apologetic, only to find that the person wasn’t. So the sports writer [...]
