A Facebook user, who is in the public media, just recently succumbed to peer pressure and created a Twitter account. This person is new to it and will have to figure whether it works for them or not. What kills me is all the feedback being sent from Facebook friends including one simply saying Twitter […]
Looking back over the past 10+ years it’s amazing how much of a coffee based country the US has turned out to be. There are those that will say we are not a coffee country but more of a “fast food – triple foamy, extra sweet” country and I can’t say that I disagree with […]
I’ve had my Traxxas Summit for about 3 months now and it’s a great truck. Our house is up on a hill and I’ve there is a large hill / side yard that we run our trucks around on. It’s been snow covered for awhile and the Summit has been great and tearing it up […]
I’ve always appreciated Easter Eggs in software products. I remember doing things like searching for Elvis in the original Mac OS Map program, or finding the magic hidden dot in Atari’s Adventure to get you to the secret room. I just added a friend of mine who is leaving the company where we worked on […]
FlexLM is a licensing product that can be used with applications to manage licenses for usage. FlexLM itself can be installed on central servers and used to manage/distribute licenses in a enterprise environment. There are three license types that can be used with FlexLM: Floating: a pool of licenses that are given out and returned […]
I found a link to this review off of slashdot a couple of weeks ago. This is a 7 part review of the Star Wars – The Phantom Menace movie done in 10 minute increments. Let me preface this that at first it will come off as someone just being a goof but I promise […]
I remember when I was in 20’s that a New Year always was an exciting time and brought a sense of hope and new beginnings. As I near 40 a New Year has taken on a different meaning and tone. I always try and spend New Years day just messing around on odds and ends […]
Today I was going through the process of updating my password on one of my accounts but received an error because the new password failed to meet the minimum requirements. I knew this because I was presented with a single dialog box that the following paragraph. If you can read and understand this then you […]
I really didn’t understand all of the changes made to eBays feedback system until I recently sold a bunch of stuff. I found out the hard way that there really is no longer a method to provide visible feedback stating that a Buyer is a dead beat or unreasonable. Here are two examples where that […]
Let me preface this by stating prior to our current vehicles I have always driven smaller/compact cars. VW Bug, VW Golf, Acura Integra, Pontiac LeMans (no, not the cool muscle car but the cheap re-branded Opel Kadet). My wife had a fender bender and dropped our 06 Durango off for repairs. Enterprise, granted they were […]