Category Archives: General

Frequent Flier Games

I went on the US Airways web site to use some of my frequent flier miles on a trip to Albuquerque 3 months from now. Although their brochure says you can get round trip flights for 25,000, the web site … Continue reading

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Domain not for sale

I’ve had a couple of inquiries about selling BlogOrDie.com. I like the domain name (even though I’m not such a passionate blogger as the name would imply). I’d like to keep it. Of course there is some amount of money … Continue reading

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American Music

I was on hold with the IRS yesterday. How come they have to play Russian music? Isn’t there any American music they could have come up with?

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More and Faster

I had a heart to heart with my web host about the speed of BlogOrDie! Performance really sucked wind. So DreamHost did something and it runs nicely now. Since the site is faster, I don’t have an excuse not to … Continue reading

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I like Windows Vista.

I got a new laptop a couple weeks ago, a Dell XPS M1330. Sweet machine (Windows Experience Index 4.0). It has Windows Vista on it. Many of the things that frustrated me in previous versions of Windows have gone away. … Continue reading

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My spizerinctum absquatulated

I hope to feel better soon.

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Paradigm wars: search vs file

I get a lot of email at my job. It’s hard to keep track of.  Some emails are hard to categorize. I have over 100 folders to sort emails into. I’m falling behind. I read about Google’s GMail. They say, … Continue reading

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