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This Week In Review July 25, 2010

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Updates and New Goals

As many of you know I lost both my father and his youngest brother in a period of 5 days. Both passed away after long health battles and the last month has been so stressful and trying on my family. The last month I have not done much besides help in my Dad's care in ...

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Fire Your Cable TV Company

Almost a year ago I fired my phone company. That is right, I decided I did not need a conventional phone line and I went to using a Magic Jack. Well now I am about to fire my cable company. Yes that is right, by the end of this month I will be ...

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What I Use Analysis

On my blog I post on the right hand side a list of all the applications I use. I use Wakoopa to track real time what I am using. I thought I will do something different and analyze the top 10 programs I use and what surprises me/does not surprise me. My Top 10 as ...

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Thank You

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The Open Source/Cloud/Paid Software Mix

I use at home what I called the Open Source/Cloud/Paid Software Mix. You might ask what this is? What this is a mix between open source/Free software, Cloud computing strategies and paid software strategy. The big reasons for going this route are cost, support, usability and flexibility. Besides my Hardware I have fully licensed versions of ...

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My Blog

I hope everyone is having a great week. As you may have noticed I have changed my blog around and the format a bit. I have some more features I will be adding and hopefully I will have time to do these this weekend. I wanted to let everyone know that I have not quit blogging. ...

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What I Use When I Blog

A lot of people have asked me lately what I use when I blog and why do I choose to use certain blogging tools. I thought I would take some time and explain which tools I use to make my blog and site what it really is. The best blogging software is open source and free. ...

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The Customer Service Experience That Failed

Two nights ago I stopped in the Shopper's Drug Mart which is 5 minutes from my home. For those of who who do not know, Shoppers Drug Mart is a large pharmacy chain with generally huge stores and they are open till midnight. I went in needing a few 8 x 10 envelopes. I go into ...

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The Future

As many of you may or may not know I was let go from my full time job last month. I have basically been on a two month plan to take care of myself, get my family life and house back into order and worry about the future. One of the things I have been ...

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