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Archive for June, 2008

Out on a limb: Why the Yahoo! Fiasco is Good for Yahoo!

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

OK, let me just start by saying my confidence in what I am about to say is just over 50%, say 50.1%, but I’m going to say it anyway:
I can’t help but wonder if all these execs leaving Y! is a good thing.  Seriously.  Where have they gotten Y! to date?  Time for some fresh [...]

Change backup frequency of Time Machine? - The Apple Blog Community

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Change backup frequency of Time Machine? - The Apple Blog Community
Ah, very useful.  For me, Time Machine was taking more time to prepare the backup then it had (30 -40 minutes sometimes) and it was also chewing up the CPU pretty good, so I turned down the frequency of the backups (2 hours instead of [...]

WITNESS: The open secret of doping in sport - Yahoo News

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

WITNESS: The open secret of doping in sport - Yahoo News
Can’t wait to hear the steady drumbeat of people that come out and try and discredit him…  They’ll say things like:
“He didn’t have that access” or “Here’s his record of the number of times he was tested” or even better, someone will call him a [...]

Are pain pills performance enhancing?

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Tiger Woods sets up playoff with dramatic birdie - Yahoo! News
As for his knee pain during the round, Woods said: “Did it get better? No. I took some things to relieve that so I feel a bit better now.”
Care to explain that remark, Tiger? Are pain pills performance enhancing when the alternative is to [...]

Woo hoo! Student Loan Finally Paid Off!

Friday, June 13th, 2008

Finally, just sent in my final payment for my student loan!  Wish I had never consolidated back then and had just paid it off on time.  Sigh, lesson learned.  At least the interest rate was next to nothing.

Review of Vivetique Organic Innerspring Mattress

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Back in January or so, we bought a Vivetique Organic Innerspring Mattress from the The Organic Mattress Store.  We spent a good deal of time researching mattresses (at least a month), etc. and finally settled on the organic cotton innerspring mattress because my wife gets pretty nasty migraines from a lot of things like perfumes, [...]