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I'm a geek to the core, and have been using computers just about all of my life. I started teaching myself BASIC programming at the age of nine. Then at sixteen I found another technology guru to spend my life with, and it was all downhill from there.
Wed 06/16/2010 3:02 PM
It's been a while since I've blogged, and I still don't have the time nor the inspiration for a long post, but here are a few updates...
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Fri 05/14/2010 11:42 AM
This blog has been quiet lately, because I've been spending all of my free time working on a new project. It's one of the new web sites I purchased the domains for early last year, but never really found the motivation to start seriously working on...
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Mon 04/12/2010 9:55 AM
For quite some time now it has been my plan to replace my three year old original iPhone model when this year's model comes out. For the past few months Chris and I have been in an ongoing debate, as he has somehow convinced himself that Apple is not releasing a new model this year...
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Wed 04/07/2010 2:09 PM
Ever since YouTube started offering higher quality and high definition versions of some of its videos, I have had a really hard time getting through to them that I always want to see the highest quality version available...
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Wed 02/10/2010 2:03 PM
You all know that I am a die hard iPhone lover. I love its touch screen and on screen keyboard, and the fact that it responds to the lightest touch and I don't have to apply any pressure makes it so much easier for me to use...
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Mon 02/01/2010 7:10 PM
Since we got FiOS we've been very happy with both the TV and internet service, but the change must have awoken some dormant problem with my computer, because my connection to our wireless network gradually degraded until I just could not get online at all anymore (even though I was supposedly still connected with excellent signal)...
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Fri 01/29/2010 1:14 PM
Okay, so I'll weigh in on the iPad. I wasn't one of those people who went into the announcement with my mind already made up to hate it and to hurl insults at those who don't, but in the end I was less than impressed...
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Wed 01/13/2010 3:50 PM
I'm again amused by how things change in just a few short years. Here are some more examples...
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Fri 01/08/2010 11:27 AM
It's kind of fun to dig back in my blog and see how things have changed over time. For example, this meme I did about five years ago, where one is supposed to go through the alphabet and see what comes up first in their web browser's auto complete list for each letter...
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Mon 12/28/2009 3:38 PM
Today's misery aside, I had a pretty awesome Christmas. I totaled up $330 in cash and gift cards toward my new camera - the one thing I wanted this year...
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Tue 12/01/2009 10:12 AM
You might know that the one main thing I am wishing for this Christmas is a new digital camera that will be easy for me to use and shoot good, quality video with clear sound (the feature that is most lacking in my current compact camera). After all, I've got to work on that winning entry to America's Funniest Home Videos...
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Fri 11/06/2009 3:10 PM
I woke up Monday morning to find a gray stripe down the left side of my iPhone screen, along with some squiggly gray lines at the top. I rebooted and reset it, but the rogue pixels would not go away...
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Wed 10/21/2009 10:59 AM
She builds a URL shortening engine, of course...
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Wed 10/07/2009 11:58 AM
As you begin your online holiday shopping, I hope you'll remember to support your favorite bloggers and purchase through their affiliate links whenever possible. For confoozled.com, you can shop my affiliate mall...
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Wed 07/22/2009 4:45 PM
I got a few suggestions over the weekend on how to fix my Adobe AIR problem, but nothing worked. So, I took the plunge and created a new administrator account for myself and began the long process of moving all of my settings, files, etc. from the old account to the new...
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Tue 07/21/2009 6:21 PM
I have been lusting after a laptop for quite a while. Besides being completely unable to justify the cost in the current economy, I have one very specific requirement for any laptop I purchase, something which is extremely difficult to find, making it even less likely that I will buy one any time in the near future...
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Fri 07/17/2009 3:06 PM
For the last two days I have been trying to solve a software problem on my PC at work that has me tearing my hair out. It's just weird, and I'm running out of ideas to fix it...
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Tue 07/14/2009 2:39 PM
A couple of weeks ago I entered to win a free year of MozyHome unlimited online backup. And guess what - I won!
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Thu 07/09/2009 4:04 PM
My friend Adam, a new iPhone owner (yay! welcome to the dark side!), asked me what apps I recommend, so I thought this would be a good opportunity to share my favorites with everyone. These are in no particular order, other than useful apps first, followed by games...
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Wed 07/01/2009 4:28 PM
I'm notoriously bad at keeping my precious data (photos, music, documents, and Sims content and saved games) backed up...
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Thu 06/25/2009 2:23 PM
Remember how I was saying I would probably be whining about how jealous I am within a week of Chris getting his iPhone 3GS (yes, Apple has officially removed the space from the spelling)? Well, I'm not...
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Mon 06/15/2009 5:46 PM
My Eeyore case for my iPhone has seen better days - the picture of Eeyore has started to rub off of the raised area where the belt clip (which I don't use) is supposed to attach. I was starting to feel like it was time for something new, anyway, so I ordered a couple of new snap-on cases...
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Fri 05/22/2009 1:54 PM
I've been looking into some of the new "pocket" video cameras, and for the next few weeks I'm borrowing a friend's Flip Video to try out and decide if it's a design I can even use. My issue is with holding it upright and still being able to see the screen...
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Wed 05/13/2009 4:45 PM
This is Brooskey, completely zonked out after running around my in-laws' yard all day Sunday. I'm posting it as a test to be absolutely sure that posting a photo to the site directly from my iPhone works the way I...
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Thu 04/23/2009 5:50 PM
I mentioned on Twitter last week that I had received spam e-mail from Rhode Island Congressman Jim Langevin, sent to a throwaway e-mail address I had used a while back for a free gift card offer. This suggested that the company I gave the e-mail address to had placed it on a list to resell to e-mail marketers, and that the congressman's office had purchased that list...
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Wed 04/22/2009 4:36 PM
It's been a crazy day, and all I have time to write are these two random, unrelated thoughts...
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Wed 04/08/2009 1:55 PM
I hate my cable company with a passion. We've had high definition television for about four years now, and we've suffered with reception problems since the beginning...
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Fri 04/03/2009 4:12 PM
I'm sure I've talked before about VistaPrint and their great offers on printed materials for your business, such as business cards, magnets, labels, letterhead and more. However I did not know that they now offer design and hosting for business websites...
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Thu 02/19/2009 2:40 PM
It's been a while since I've done this, but I can't think of anything to write about today, so why not? Here are a couple of the items that have recently appeared in the "across the web" section over in the sidebar...
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Thu 02/12/2009 9:50 AM
I have more data loss horror stories than you can imagine. One that stands out in my mind is the TiVo Desktop photo and music wipe...
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Mon 02/02/2009 3:21 PM
Commenter Ricky asked for my feelings on the Lose It! iPhone application now that I have been using it for a while, so I thought I should post an updated review. If you don't remember, this is the app I am using to track my calorie intake as I work to lose the weight I put back on in 2008...
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Mon 01/05/2009 4:14 PM
I'm reading back through my 2008 entries with the intention of writing a recap of the past year of my life, and immediately with the first entry on January 8, I'm cracking up at the similarities to my situation right now...
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Tue 12/02/2008 11:57 AM
I feel a week of rants coming on. Today it's about digital rights management, otherwise known as DRM...
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Wed 11/26/2008 3:26 PM
Sorry for two contest posts in a week, but I had to enter this one. John Chow is hosting a $6,000 cash giveaway sponsored by tiny URL service XR.com!
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Wed 11/19/2008 11:33 AM
For some reason all the stores seem to be starting the Black Friday madness early this year. Instead of reducing prices for Christmas shopping starting the day after Thanksgiving, many of them started as early as the first of November.
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Thu 10/30/2008 4:59 PM
As my regular readers know, I've been without a computer at home for three weeks. But the symptoms actually began at least a month earlier - symptoms which I mistakenly attributed to overheating at the time...
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Thu 10/23/2008 10:49 AM
If you're a geek like me, you probably know about the popular tech/gadget blogs like Engadget and Gizmodo. The problem with those sites is that they post every piece of tech news that comes along, which results in tons of posts per day...
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Mon 10/20/2008 4:04 PM
My poor, sick computer developed a new symptom late last week: it started repeatedly powering itself on. We had plugged it back in after Chris tried applying new heatsink compound to the CPU aong with a few other tweaks, to see if any of it had made a difference...
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Mon 10/13/2008 5:31 PM
Friday evening after work I turned on my home computer to do a few things. Shortly after booting up, it shut itself down, never to turn on again. We think it was the motherboard that gave up the ghost. Fortunately...
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Tue 09/23/2008 2:44 PM
I know you all know by now how much I love my iPhone. I've been on a quest since the beginning to find a protective case for it in my favorite color: purple. I had a silicone skin, which was supposedly purple but in reality was more pink...
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Mon 09/22/2008 12:04 PM
I've been having a problem with my home computer for a while, where many of my startup applications would fail to create an icon on the system tray in Windows XP upon initial boot-up. Logging off and back on to my user account would fix the problem, and since my computer stayed on most of the time I didn't have to deal with it often, so I just let it be...
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Wed 09/10/2008 2:00 PM
One of the secrets of affilate marketing is to register domain names and build niche web sites around the products you want to promote. Now I love my web host, even though they're not the cheapest in the world. The excellent service and support they provide is well worth the extra money, and it would take a serious problem to get me to move confoozled.com to another host...
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Tue 08/26/2008 7:47 PM
Unique Blog Designs is celebrating its one-year anniversary, and giving away an iPod Touch along with a brand new 'citrus' theme for Wordpress blogs, in three flavors! Commenting on the contest post is good for one entry, and blogging about the contest with a link back is worth another five...
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Mon 08/11/2008 4:26 PM
So, consider this a review of the tools available specifically for Movable Type users on the iPhone. Unfortunately, there aren't many, and the ones that do exist are rather inadequate, at least for my needs...
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Tue 07/29/2008 9:27 AM
Lo and behold, I find out that Enkay Blog along with Market Leverage is holding a contest in which one of the prizes is an Asus EEE PC laptop! You can also win a $50 AmEx gift card or one of three USB pen drives...
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Tue 07/22/2008 8:35 PM
Is it ever ethical to use such a thing? Maybe to track your own vehicle in case of theft, and maybe to track company-owned vehicles driven by employees, though I have mixed feelings on that...
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Wed 07/16/2008 8:54 PM
The most awaited feature of the iPhone 2.0 software was of course the App Store. I spent the weekend browsing the free applications and downloaded my share...
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Thu 07/10/2008 6:24 PM
I found out today that Google has released the Browser Sync code to the open source community. What this means is that anyone can now get their hands on the source code and improve upon it...
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Tue 07/08/2008 8:54 PM
DisabilityNation recently reported that according to a survey, one in five gamers is disabled. You can count me as one of them...
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Thu 06/19/2008 8:36 PM
John Chow dot Com is having another great giveaway. This time the prize is a bag of goodies from Market Leverage worth over $500...
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Wed 05/21/2008 9:41 PM
But for those of you who need a new phone and can't afford the initial expense of an iPhone, there are cheap and even free AT&T cell phones. Or for Sprint users, how about a free Samsung Instinct?
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Mon 05/12/2008 8:07 PM
Just a few observations on the iPhone so far. My only complaints, aside from missing features which will hopefully be enabled in future software updates, have to do with the on-screen keyboard...
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Tue 05/06/2008 8:58 PM
Design is very much a matter of personal taste, and just because one designer thinks things should be done a certain way does not mean that's the only way to do it. And I would highly recommend that before he preaches a "rule" of design, he double checks whether it's something he does himself...
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Mon 05/05/2008 5:38 PM
AT&T has told me that the switch-over should take place next Monday. I was actually a little bit surprised that they didn't assign a temporary number just so I could receive calls in the meantime...
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Fri 04/25/2008 7:49 PM
I've found a lot of my old high school classmates recently, thanks mostly to Facebook. And that makes getting to those reunions seem a lot less important...
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Wed 04/23/2008 8:06 PM
Does anyone actually get a list of locations upon entering your zip code? Or does everyone just get sent to the contact form? And if anyone has occasion to actually use their services, I'd love to hear about your experience...
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Sat 04/19/2008 6:50 PM
We're far better off continuing to buy our cartridges one set at a time from our office supply chain of choice. Never mind the fact that I have some strong opinions on the quality of generic inks and what they do to your printer...
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Tue 01/08/2008 9:23 PM
A little over an hour and it was done. So again, seems a little strange that a plain no-frills file manager had no trouble copying what a drive imaging product could not, but I just don't know where the fault really lies...
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Mon 12/03/2007 3:53 PM
How many of those visitors will become regular readers is anybody's guess. But at least people who are interested in the topics I'm writing about are seeing those entries...
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Tue 08/21/2007 7:49 PM
So back to my point. Internet advertisers these days only pay for action. Viewers who actually click through to the advertiser's site, and maybe a bit more for those that result in a sale...
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Thu 05/24/2007 3:32 PM
Look, there are other things you have to do to earn consumers' trust and loyalty besides just having the superior product. And I'm pretty sure that threatening them with legal action is not one of those things...
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Thu 02/01/2007 3:48 PM
The company isn't saying how they managed this one, but units manufactured during a one-week period back in October were shipped infected with the Backdoor.Win32.Small.lo virus, which will attempt to install other malware on any Windows-based PC the unit is connected to...
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Thu 01/25/2007 1:55 PM
If you think you've been getting a lot more spam lately, you're right. The reason is the "Storm" worm, the spammers' latest weapon to make their spam go out more efficiently and make themselves harder to catch...
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Mon 01/22/2007 4:44 PM
Well, I'm sorry, but I have never seen any actions from Google that would give me any reason to doubt their commitment to remaining a socially and morally responsible company.
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Sun 01/21/2007 3:06 PM
Dan not only updated the plugin to sort the icons alphabetically just for me, he also helped me troubleshoot a separate problem where the plugin stopped working altogether after a Movable Type upgrade yesterday...
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Thu 01/18/2007 12:31 PM
Dubbed "multitouch" screens, these screens react to different gestures and even let you use more than one finger - or hand - at a time...
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Mon 01/15/2007 12:46 PM
I, on the other hand, have panic attacks when I think about how much of my life is stored on my hard drives and the prospect of losing it all, plus the work involved in tweaking everything just the way I like it again...
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Tue 01/09/2007 9:35 AM
Yes, the site is intended to connect users with health-related advertisers (through legitimate, opt-in mailings), but somehow I don't think fixed rate mortgages from people who can't spell really fall into that category...
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Sun 12/24/2006 1:21 PM
Many people seem to think that a person would need to have my password in order to send e-mail from my address. This is not true at all...
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Wed 12/06/2006 7:37 PM
While hunting for a way to add a restart button to Firefox I came across the Toolbar Buttons extension. The developer made a mistake in coding the version compatibility, which means that the existing version of Firefox refuses to install it...
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Thu 11/16/2006 1:50 PM
I spent all morning at work today trying to find a payroll discrepancy that wasn't there...
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Tue 10/17/2006 11:41 AM
This is part of my efforts to keep the site fresh, with constantly updated content, without my having to put too much work into it (because we've all seen what happens - the site doesn't get updated for a year).
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Thu 02/03/2005 1:04 PM
Maybe this means they're about to finally open the door to the public. Maybe I won some kind of invite lottery...
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Wed 12/15/2004 10:22 PM
So the choice was, spend $30-$40 on an add-on USB card and a PS/2 adapter for the keyboard, or go ahead and fork out the $100 for the new motherboard...
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Fri 12/10/2004 4:39 PM
In your browser's address bar, type the letter "a" and make note of the first page that comes up in the autocomplete list...
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Tue 12/07/2004 2:06 PM
Kudos to whoever thought this one up...
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Tue 12/07/2004 12:13 AM
"Scientists from the RAND Corporation have created this model to illustrate how a 'home computer' could look like in the year 2004..."
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Mon 11/29/2004 6:15 PM
I will never share any information I collect with anyone without their permission, and if I ever catch any of my advertisers doing so, they will not be my advertisers anymore...
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Thu 10/28/2004 3:02 PM
Neil left this out, but I wanted to mention I'm trying out a new program that combines NNTP news and RSS/Atom feeds into one application...
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Fri 09/24/2004 2:46 PM
I normally run a refresh rate of 85 Hz on my desktop, because at 60 I get terrible flicker that makes me go cross-eyed and gives me a headache...
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Wed 09/22/2004 12:11 PM
The biggest issue for me right now is video card compatibility. My nVidia GeForce 4 MX 440 is on the list of compatible cards, but it turns out it's just barely compatible...
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Thu 06/24/2004 8:49 PM
Carly to Yahoo: Your Messenger client is a clunky, unstable piece of junk.
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Sun 01/18/2004 1:08 AM
I got this crazy idea that I wanted to figure out how I can write an article on my PDA while out "on the road", and have it post automatically when I sync up. So I set out to find...
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Thu 09/25/2003 1:43 PM
It's been a bumpy ride... you may have noticed some downtime, but it should be smooth sailing from here on out.
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Thu 06/12/2003 9:39 PM
Once in a while I have an extremely good or bad experience with a company, and want to tell the world about it...
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Mon 02/03/2003 1:07 AM
I have heard some people say that "they don't need to be sending people to space." Some have said it's a waste of time and money, that "they were only studying spiders," (only one of approximately 80 scientific experiments conducted on the shuttle)...
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Thu 01/09/2003 10:43 AM
Beware of RebatesHQ, a company that processes mail-in rebates for many manufacturers of electronics and computer products. When you submit a rebate request to them, they offer the option of giving them your e-mail address in order to allow you...
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