Pete on March 12th, 2007

Ever since I first dragged an online map to pan around the screen, I’ve been using Google Maps. I didn’t need to click a North, South, East, or West arrow, and wait for the page to load up. It was simple to use, slick-looking, and accurate. Even Lazy Sunday agreed “Google Maps is the best”. [...]

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Pete on March 6th, 2007

While I have no interest in children at this point, I have to same I am enthralled by this website: The Baby Name Wizard: NameVoyager It must be the tech behind it, but I just keep playing with it, punching in different names, etc.

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Pete on February 28th, 2007

It’s that time again, and normally I already have done my taxes and received my refund already. But I haven’t (more on that below), and I wanted to pass along this link that compares the total costs, including e-filing, of the major tax preparation softwares. It’s pretty in-depth, and shows where to get more bang [...]

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Pete on February 22nd, 2007

Yeah, yeah….blogging from work. I saw this in an email newsletter this morning, and wanted to share it. I think I may have heard bits and pieces a little while ago, but this summary just floors me: “Pop-up ads can land you in jail” – windowssecrets.com The story revolves around a substitute teacher who had [...]

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Pete on February 21st, 2007

Anyone have any good ideas for a Seinfeld themed costume that would work for me? There does seem to be a lot going on lately, but really that’s no excuse to let things go stale on here. My apologies…. Won’t Someone Think of the Children?? Courtesy of Ars, it is being reported that Anheuser-Busch is [...]

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Pete on February 2nd, 2007

I’ve noticed lately that there seems to be a large influx of comment spam on the blogs I follow. I’ve subscribed to most using an RSS reader, and most days there’s a handful of comment spam from a variety of places on a lot of them. I ran into comment spam early on when I [...]

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Pete on January 23rd, 2007

Comcast in the Battle Creek, MI is the worst. Beyond bad. My tale of woes: Saying that I am severely disappointed in the Comcast service here would be an understatement. I had problems with them in South Bend, but the complete ineptitude of service here has completely surpassed my already low expectations. Unfortunately, there aren’t [...]

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Pete on January 9th, 2007

Well, we’ve moved in to Battle Creek and I really wanted to write a recap of the last week and cover the whole moving experience and everything. But I’m fired up now, and have been since 7:30 this morning. Now, I’ve chided people for patronizing places like David’s Bridal and U-Haul; I just don’t understand [...]

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Pete on January 2nd, 2007

A couple of weeks ago we played the Scene It? DVD game with some friends and family. We were all having a lot of fun, and it reminded me of a computer game I used to play back in the 90s with friends called “You Don’t Know Jack”. YDKJ was a humorous trivia/pop culture game, [...]

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Pete on December 21st, 2006

The short explanation here is that some incoming messages sent from a yahoo.com email address to a hosted fiestyturtles.com address are being marked as spam. For the long explanation, let me try and explain what I know so far… I recently discovered that I was not getting emails sent to my FT account from people [...]

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