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Dear “The Planet” – You Suck The Planet does IT hosting. In my case, a friend and I share a server that we’ve had there for three years.  Unfortunately, I missed several emails from them telling me that my credit card had been rejected due to an expiration date passing. Normally in a case like […]

In one year, health insurance with a $5000 deductible has climbed from $118 up to $207 per month.  No claims, no nothing. In another instance, on a different policy, they paid the first claim, no problem, then when the procedure had to be repeated, they held up the claim for 3 months, then when I […]

http://blog.robballen.com/2010/02/12/p3940-forget-the-green-police.post

http://www.pretentiousname.com/adobe_pdf_x64_fix/index.html The fixes are in there.  Work like a champ.

I’m spending entirely too much time shuttling between Atlanta and Chicago for business.  I’m booked on the same flights for each trip, and the patterns have become way to obvious to ignore: The baggage fees are destroying flying for the customer – on top of all the other overhead that you need to deal with […]

Recently at KFC, I asked for a packet of honey with which to drown my biscuit. While enjoying my dinner, I saw that there was a list of ingredients on the packet of honey.  “That’s odd” I thought.  When I look on the honey bear container in my pantry, there is no ingredient list, just […]

Not that I agree the United States is an empire (we’re not getting a lot of tribute from the nations under our umbrella), but this article is a pretty clear warning of what the future holds for our nation. http://www.newsweek.com/id/224694

This is from one of our servers, this one is located in Texas, doing a download of a file from Microsoft’s site.  On my 20mbit FiOS connection to our office in Tampa I’ve seen up to 2MB/Sec downloads.  The one pictured below topped out at over 7MB/Sec. I want *that* connection in my office!

I’ve upgraded several systems to Windows 7, and so far my favorite feature has to be using the keyboard to move and dock windows around very easily.  The keystrokes you need to know: <windows key> + <left arrow> = dock window to left half of the current monitor<windows key> + <right arrow> = dock window […]

I’ve been experiencing random crashes with Virtual PC 2007 with Service Pack 1, and finally I got fed up with them and decided to see if I could find a solution to the problem. It turns out that there is a hotfix that solves not only that problem, but increases the maximum screen resolution of […]