What I Remember About Jose Canseco

July 31, 2009

Every November my mom’s parents went to Arizona to escape the cold Iowa winters. We went and visited a couple of times, but the year that sticks out in my mind is the one where we went during Major League Baseball spring training the year after Mark McGwire was named AL Rookie of the Year. [...]

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Did I just Steal Your Password?

July 21, 2009

If your current password management solution looks something like the picture here, it’s quite possible anyone could steal your passwords. The person next to you at Starbucks may appear to be smiling politely in your direction, but they could be using the eye contact to distract you from their effort to copy down your user [...]

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Saving Columbia River and Snake River Salmon and Steelhead

July 21, 2009

If you like the way wild caught salmon and steelhead taste (which is far better than that farm-raised crap), I urge you to use the National Wildlife Federation form to send a message to the Obama administration about Columbia River and Snake River salmon and steelhead populations. Both are seriously endangered to the point commercial [...]

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Red Eye to Boston

July 15, 2009

I’m currently camped out in the Seattle airport preparing for an overnight flight to Boston for the Shareware Industry Conference, where I’ll be speaking on how to use video to reduce support costs. I’m excited to see many of the familiar faces I know from the shareware world, but since this is my first trip [...]

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Negative Reviews are Bad for Bloggers

July 14, 2009

Something about the ongoing discussion about bloggers, reviews, and whether or not the FTC should have rules of disclosure for bloggers rubs me the wrong way. I’m a blogger, for lack of a better description, and I do review products. Sometimes those products are sent to me by companies, sometimes I buy them, and for [...]

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Do You Use Pre-Installed Software?

June 22, 2009

When I review new computer hardware, I try to first use it “as is” and then make configuration changes based on the way I’d use a computer if it were actually mine. One of the key components of “as is” configuration is the software that comes pre-installed. For instance, on the HP dv2 I received [...]

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$2500 Logo Design Contest

June 2, 2009

Buzz Corps, the company that’s behind some of the amazing giveaways I participate in, like 31 Days of the Dragon and the HP Magic Giveaway, are changing their name. As a result they need a new logo for the new company. They could have hired a designer to do the new logo, but instead they [...]

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How to get Comcast Deals for your Cable Bill

May 28, 2009

I keep thinking about ditching cable altogether and using something like PlayOn to get television from the Internet back to my HDTV. So far the steps are still too many to completely kill my cable television service. Couple that with Comcast offering the best high speed data option where I live and I remain a [...]

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Replacement Riding Lawn Mower Key

May 7, 2009

We lost the keys to our riding lawn mower – not just one, both of them. While it crossed my mind that hot-wiring the lawn mower should be fairly easy, for the long haul, replacing the key makes more sense. The question becomes, where do you get a replacement lawn mower key? Direct from the [...]

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Pantech Matrix Pro Cell Phone Giveaway

May 2, 2009

Somewhere in the midst of all the excitement around having a new baby arrive, I missed the memo that I was supposed to be announcing another giveaway yesterday. This time around the giveaway is a brand new Pantech Matrix Pro cell phone (pictured below) paired with a $100 gift card to ATT Wireless, which happens [...]

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