Retail
Phone Scam Targeting People for Identity Theft
May 25, 2019Just received a voicemail from “Daniel Murphy” claiming he needed to speak to me about a Gabriel Bustamante. He didn’t say that he was with an agency or anything, just that it was “an extremely time sensitive matter.” I called back and he said that I was listed under Gabriel’s contacts associated with the Social […]
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LG HOM-BOT “Please remove foreign material from the brushes on the bottom.”
February 14, 2019If you have an LG HOM-BOT, you may be extremely pleased with the efficiency and the quietness. It’s a great—albeit expensive—robot vacuum cleaner. There are issues though. We had to send ours back while it was still under warranty because the computer stopped working. They took care of it no problem. However, a year or […]
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Who’s the largest employer in each state?
November 30, 2018Who’s the largest private employer in each state? For 22 states, the answer is Walmart—that evil greedy representation of capitalism!
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Convert InDesign Creative Cloud Book to Amazon Kindle
September 26, 2018For a conversion that may occur hundreds of times a day across the country, converting an InDesign Creative Cloud book to an Amazon Kindle file is not an easy process. You can export the InDesign file as an epub, which looks great in iBooks, but that doesn’t cut it in Kindle and editing the epub […]
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Amazon Will Announce Austin, Texas as New HQ2
September 20, 2018In a move that will no doubt shock many in the industry, global ecommerce giant Amazon will announce Austin, TX to be home of their new headquarters (HQ2) by the end of the year. The development will span several years and place the multi-billion-dollar campus on Austin’s near-east side next to Oracle’s new campus. The […]
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Email Scam Targeting Web Developers
August 30, 2018I recently received a request for a website development gig by email from a Joshua Knight (joshuaknight1212@gmail.com): My name is Joshua Knight,Do you do Website design for new company and do you accept credit card ??? It looked suspicious, but I replied that I did and got a web developer’s dream follow-up: i have small […]
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Charter Spectrum Business hosting does not support WordPress
August 22, 2018Based on our limited experience with them, Charter Spectrum is possibly the worst web hosting company in the world. They advertise a free domain and website with their ISP/phone services along with 10 mySQL databases. What they don’t advertise is the 4 months you’ll spend trying to transfer your domain to the company and trouble […]
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Exxon Mobil Rewards Attempts to Fill Plenti Void
August 22, 2018With the sudden implosion of Plenti, consumers have been wont for a rewards card that can do the same wonderful things as Plenti did. Unfortunately, it doesn’t appear to be happening as there are no other loyalty/rewards cards that were as “plenti”ful the reach as Plenti card did. Exxon Mobil are doing their best to […]
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iMac Keeps Shutting Off Randomly
August 21, 2018Update: The iMac started shutting off randomly no matter what apps I was using and eventually it was happening multiple times a day. I figured that it was probably the power supply, which is known to cause issues for these iMacs. I ended up getting a replacement power supply with a repair kit. I used […]
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Grow Food Not Lawns
August 17, 2018Excerpt from the forthcoming book, Paleo Family: Raising Natural Kids in an Unnatural World. There was a meme going around recently that mocked gardeners. It sarcastically stated that, “Growing your own tomatoes really is the best way to devote three months of your life to save $2.17.” Har har har. The joke’s on whoever made […]
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