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Are companies really this stupid?!

So the gas bill for last month is $1.67. Really! We pay in equal payments so there’s always a strange amount left at the end of the year.

My bank charges me [...]

Shame RED User!

For those (few) readers that read this blog, I’d like to point out a sad, petty development in the blogosphere.
I have mentioned on many video blogs the wealth of information that can be found on Eugenia Loli’s Blog.
Eugenia is one of those prolific “helpers” that has offered many tips, written many articles and suggested a [...]

What the heck happened to simple math - never mind logic?!

So, I’m watching the saga of the “Balloon Boy” LIVE from Colorado (isn’t the internet amazing!) and I look at the balloon. I think OK… the balloon looks like it’s about 25 feet in diameter and about 5 feet in height. It turns out that it’s 20 feet in diameter and 5 feet at its [...]

Checkbox mentality

Walk through any supermarket and you are bound to see health-conscious consumers leaning on the handle of their shopping cart, carefully studying the label of the food item they are about to toss in with their weekly groceries.

Studying the label can tell you a lot about what’s in the product, but it tells you little [...]

Too many computers

At last count there were about 14 computers in the house. No one wants them – they’re too “old!” Since when is a 2MHz Pentium with 2GB ram and 120GB Hard drive “old?”
I’ll recycle as much as I can – like turning some of them into servers like this one – but some of this [...]

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