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Posted on September 17, 2006 by Kevin

My Motorola V557 cell phone pitched off the boat into Lake Hartwell (SC) in about 9 feet of water. One of the more aquatic members of our party dove down and recovered it after about 5 minutes. I removed the … Continue reading →

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I lost my chip

Posted on July 26, 2006 by Kevin

I, like many folks, have a USB flash drive that I carry around (I call it “my chip’). Last week it went missing. I have a backup of the chip, so it was easy to copy stuff onto a new … Continue reading →

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An Inconvenient Question

Posted on July 10, 2006 by Kevin

I went to see the Al Gore movie, An Inconvenient Truth. It’s a very interesting movie and I hope lots of folks will go to see it. I could do with a little less footage of Al Gore riding in … Continue reading →

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How about some phishing reporting standards?

Posted on May 30, 2006 by Kevin

Hey, you financial institutions! How about coming up with a standard email account for your domain for reporting phishing scams? spoof@ebay.com (and paypal.com and wamu.com) emailspoof@citigroup.com reportphish@wellsfargo.com abuse@bankofamerica.com fraud_prevention@citizensbank.com Come on. This is no time for creativity and branding.

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Surgeon General’s Warning?

Posted on May 12, 2006 by Kevin

So I installed Microsoft OneNote and was giving it a test drive. I dragged a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet icon onto my OneNote note. Then I double-clicked the link it created. Here’s the message I got: [Big Red “X”] Hyperlinks can … Continue reading →

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Thanks to the dinosaurs

Posted on December 26, 2005 by Kevin

I’ve just been hauling large tree limbs downed by the recent ice storm. That’s really hard work. It took about all the strength and endurance I had. I think about how much we owe to fossil fuels, to do our … Continue reading →

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PDA Haiku?

Posted on July 8, 2005 by Kevin

Wireless; hotel room.Posted from my PDA.What a pain sans kbd.

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