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Entries for October, 2006

Guy Browning offers 20 top tips for surviving life in the workplace

This list is great! 11 Don’t drink under the influence of work Alcohol and business don’t mix, which is why you really shouldn’t bother with work if you like a drink. Excessive drinking at work makes you feel sociable, light-headed and confident. In other words, it makes you feel like you work in sales. The […]

Installing Ubuntu On An External USB Hard Drive

A good how to article, although it is a pretty straight forward process. The point below may be the only problem on how to get the external drive available to format: To fix the problem System > Preferences > Removable Drives and Media and deselect the following options Mount removable drives when hot-plugged Mount Removable […]

Christmas Gift Wish

OK I found what I want for Christmas, and I promise not to buy it ahead of time! http://irecord.com/index.html This nifty little gadget allows you to record TV and video onto your iPod. Hint, hint!

The Dow Jones Industrials Pass 12,000

The Dow Jones industrial average swept past 12,000 for the first time Wednesday, extending its march into record territory as investors signaled their growing optimism about corporate earnings and the economy. Link Wow, I remember the big deal they made when it passed the 10,000 mark a few years ago. Some analysts predict a Dow […]

All cents now worth more than denomination

Zinc passed the $1.80 mark today, that means the current “penny” has a melt value of $0.0101867. All the coins in your penny jar are worth more than their denomination (except for steel cents made during WW2). Link Technorati Tags: economy, penny, cents, money, worth, inflation

Derailed

I caught the movie Derailed last night. Excellant film. Good acting. All around nice movie. I would recommend it. Usually I figure out the movie before the twist but this time I only had a hunch, which really impresses me when a movie can pull one over on me. Technorati Tags: Derailed, Movie, Cool, Review

Small percentage of iPods contain viruses

On iPods: I knew these things were viral but to actually have viruses? Technorati Tags: apple, ipod, virus, news, article

US passes 300 million mark

This morning, by all guesses, the United States passed the 300 million people mark. I wonder how many are illegals? Side note: It’s snowing like crazy here today with a couple inches on the ground so far… Technorati Tags: snow, population, united states, us, people, weather

2 thing in life you can count on; becomes 3

While growing up I had quite a few teachers/adults tell me that there are 2 things in life you can count on: Death Taxes I’d like to add a third that I’ve seen every election season since then: Gas prices will drop about a month before elections and stay low until about 2 weeks afterwards. […]

Ways to Maintain A Healthy Level Of Insanity….

At Lunch Time, Sit In Your Parked Car With Sunglasses on and point a Hair Dryer At Passing Cars. See If They Slow Down. Page Yourself Over The Intercom. Don’t Disguise Your Voice. Every Time Someone Asks You To Do Something, Ask If They Want Fries with that. Put Your Garbage Can On Your Desk […]