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Learning About Scams
Where did you learn about all the various scams out there ( Read more... ) -
Scams That Echo Through the Ages
After finding out that my own parents got conned out of a lot of money, I went looking for a way I could possibly explain to them that they were involved with a scam.
I picked up a book called Hustlers & Con Men, by Jay Robert Nash. It is, as the subtitle says, an anecdotal history, focusing mainly on the heyday of the American confidence man. ( Read more... ) -
Grocery Delivery
Having to work 60+ hours a week is a drag, but doing so with an empty fridge really sucks. So I started looking into grocery delivery services. Since some of you may be interested as well, so here are the delivery services I found.- yummy.com -- Named for the food it delivers as well as the delivery people.
- shop.albertsons.com -- Good selection, ( Read more... )
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Omega/ NESARA Scams
Does anyone out there has any personal experience with the Omega Trust scam or any of its offshoots, NESARA for example? I'm trying to gather information on what exactly happened to my family and what to do next ( Read more... ) -
Six tips for going paperless
Just wanted to share these thoughts from Productivity501.com.
I have been moving toward a paperless office for two reasons. First the amount of paper in my life continues to grow each year and I’ve grown tired of spending so much effort just wrangling physical paper. Second I spend a lot of time on the road. It is nice to have access to all my ( Read more... ) -
Picasa Revisited
Not too long ago, Picasa dumped the photo albums for the photos which were stored on a network drive.
So, after weeks of agonizing over my lost Picasa albums, I finally looked up the issue in the Picasa support forum.
It turns out that I'm not alone in this issue. The good news is that Picasa stores backups of the album definitions. The bad ( Read more... ) -
I have a job
Not that this is a new development, but in this economy it is nice to be able to say.
In no small part, I have a job because of the small device featured in this video. -
Erg!
I'm very upset at Picasa for deleting all my albums. Just because my photos are on the home network drive and my laptop went out of the apartment for a while doesn't mean I want my albums deleted!
Update
The web versions of the albums still exist. I wonder if I can back port. -
Sick-O Weekend
Though I've been sick all weekend, I did make it out to Lucent L'Amour on Saturday night, if only for a little while ( Read more... ) -
Lucent L'Amour this Saturday
The Do Lab is putting on a great big party in downtown LA this Saturday, called Lucent L'Amour. It promises to be much like Burning Man, though much better than the LA Decompression.
You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com
Lucent L'Amour 2009 from siouxzenkang on Vimeo.