August 25, 2008 – 9:16 pm
I’ve been using the word “no” an awful lot lately. For some reason over the past few months there’s been a lot of interest shown in my resume (which apparently is out there somewhere, though I don’t remember where) and my LinkedIn profile. I get all sorts of random emails, LinkedIn messages, and even phone [...]
On July 23, 2007, two career criminals broke into the home of a prominent Connecticut doctor, intent on robbing it. When they entered, they discovered the family was at home - the doctor, his wife, and their two daughters, 11 and 17. They beat the doctor. They tied the 11-year-old girl to her bed, and [...]
December 28, 2007 – 9:21 am
I recently learned that people in Virginia - that’s people in general, certainly not every one of them - have a keen distaste for the state of Maryland and its contents. I don’t know why this is, much as I cannot explain to you why people from Michigan look south to Ohio with disdain, even [...]
September 8, 2007 – 3:11 pm
Sometimes you run across someone so profoundly dumb you do a mental double-take before realizing that, yes, they really did just do something that stupid.
Case in point: Today I was browsing around doing a little research on a Bluetooth headset I’ve had my eye on when I stumbled across a site belonging to a [...]
September 6, 2007 – 7:07 pm
I’ve been tagged. I’m supposed to tell you (in case there is a you) eight things you (probably) don’t know about me.
I first attended college at the ripe old age of 12. I thought I was 14, but last Christmas the topic came up and my parents convinced me I was 12 (and of course [...]
When I started this thing I thought I would have time for it.
It’s really not turning out that way.
Is it just me, or is every single phone company in the world a huge pain to deal with?
A few months ago I had a Frontier phone number ported over to Packet8’s VoIP service. Everything went perfectly. Almost. Since then, anyone in the world who is using any carrier other than Frontier gets routed to [...]