Archive for the ‘Depressing’ Category

Issues Synching Amazon Kindle Notes and Highlights to iPhone

Sunday, October 9th, 2011

The Issue I don't mind reading Amazon Kindle books on my iPhone, but sometimes a bigger screen is nice. Thankfully Amazon has Kindle apps for PC, Mac, iOS, Android, etc. The issue I'm having is that my notes and highlights don't usually sync correctly from Kindle for Mac to Kindle for ...

AT&T Ramblings About iPhone 4′s Antenna Issues

Saturday, September 11th, 2010

The following conversation took place with AT&T Sales via LivePerson chat on September 11, 2010 at 7:10 PM ET: Jeremy Glover: When will the next iPhone be released? Tausha: We do not have any information for that, the new iPhone 4 just came out in June. Jeremy Glover: Why are they discontinuing the ...

“Twas the Month Before Christmas”

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

A politically correct Christmas poem...sent by a friend. Twas the month before Christmas When all through our land, Not a Christian was praying Nor taking a stand. See the PC Police had taken away The reason for Christmas—no one could say. The children were told by their schools not to sing, About shepherds and wise men and angels ...

That’s the last time I buy from Dell

Saturday, June 13th, 2009

Regrettably, Dell has canceled your recent order for a Dell Nuvi 275T GPS or Nuvi 265WT GPS Dear Customer, This is to notify you that, regrettably, Dell has canceled your recent order for a Dell Nuvi 275T GPS or Nuvi 265WT GPS. Due to our error, the system was shown ...

It pays to be pink. At least Garmin thinks so.

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

For my mother's birthday I purchased a TomTom One 130. The updated maps had the other half of my road, so I was happy it could navigate more efficiently. Tonight I stumbled across a new site called DealWaiter. I plugged in "Garmin Nuvi" and it had a few results but ...

Search on Walmart.com: What’s the point?

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

My back yard is full of bare spots so I thought it was time to re-seed. Since Walmart is usually cheaper than the competition, I check there first when I need something. I searched for "grass seed" on Walmart.com and got results that couldn't have been more off. No related posts.

View Source of HTML Email in Microsoft Outlook

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

For some reason, Microsoft decided it would be fun to make it nearly impossible to view the HTML source of an email in Outlook. Below are the convoluted steps to make it accessible. Most of the steps are for the initial setup which makes a new icon available ...

Keep getting kicked off Windows XP after you log in?

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

Viruses can be tricky. Even if your anti-virus software is kept up-to-date on a daily basis it may not catch the newest threats. What would you do if a virus infected your computer? That depends. Can you run a virus scan? Can you even login? I ran into that problem ...

Why I Use 10MinuteMail.com

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Unfortunately, many websites that collect email addresses do so without your best wishes in mind. Case and point: I decided to help meetup.com this evening by clicking on one of their sponsored ads. Because of the way Google AdWords/AdSense works, the ad hoster may not get any revenue ...

Dominate Need for Speed (Undercover) and Still Lose

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

Dictionary.com defines dominate in the following ways: 1) to rule over; govern; control. 2) to tower above; overlook; overshadow As I was racing today, I owned one of the longer races by completing it in 5:17. The "time to beat" in order to gain domination status was 5:38. It seems to ...