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This is an email I sent to the feedback address that amazon provides for Kindle owners: My story: I had been long wanting an e-Reader, and was drawn to the Sony one; However, the Sony was lacking a lot of features, and I was worried about the longevity of their e-book store. When Amazon announced […]

On February 2nd, 2008, the South Florida Code Camp 2008 will be held in Miramar, Florida.  This will be my first time speaking at this Code Camp.  I spoke in Tampa last year.  CRM sessions don’t draw too many people, but the ones that are at the session are really interested in what you have […]

These are Phil Plait’s choices for the top 10 astronomy pics of 2007.  Definitely an eye opening page to visit.  Visit his blog at http://www.badastronomy.com/.  Lots of good stuff. 

Verizon customer service may suck most horribly, but FiOS rocks my world.  See picture for all the details you need…

I got a certificate this morning celebrating my 10 years as a member of Mensa.  I took the test as a lark on day (a former employer of mine had been bugging me to do it long before I actually did it) and a few weeks later found out that I qualified. The sad thing […]

Just before the holidays I decided to try out a Zune 80.  The new Zunes are getting pretty good reviews, and I decided that I would try one out so I could get all my .wma music onto the system from my media center PC that died on me.  Yes, I know I can convert […]

Over the past month I’ve had two client sites have problems with Verizon service.  The number of hoops they make you jump through in order to try to solve a problem are incredible. In the most recent instance, the client called to say that no one there can get onto the Internet.  I walked them […]

Grrr, for about the 40th time today an application that was supposed to be doing something in the background stole focus. In this latest instance, I was loading QuickBooks in the background while working with Outlook.  As soon as QuickBooks prompted for a password, the password window stole the focus from Outlook! A while ago […]

Deborah   says:– first we need to go to the beach  Deborah   says:– then we need a giant gingerbread manDeborah   says:– and a towel that looks like a baking panEric G. Harrison says:– In order to have a day at the beach, we must first invent the universe.Deborah   says:– "bang"

There are frequent times when I need to get a full path and file name from Windows Explorer into something else. Fortunately Vista has a "hidden" feature built in to make that easier. For example, earlier today I had to point to a Virtual PC hard disk image that I had downloaded when setting up […]