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Site of the Week: FreeRice.com

April 7, 2008 By Robert Owen

It's been a while since my last Site-of-the-week... Sorry for the long delay but nothing has really shown through, IMHO, until now. My wife found this one and I think it's great! FreeRice.com FreeRice is a sister site of the world poverty site, … [Read more...]

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150 miles per Galleon?!??!?

January 15, 2008 By Robert Owen

Oh Man, Oh Man, Oh Man!!!! My cousin forwarded this to me the other day. I just took a second and checked it out. Amazing!! If this thing is real, my gas troubles are over. With gas getting up to $3.00 per gallon here in TN I would spend the extra $$$$$ to get that kind of mileage. Check this out: You can read more on the company at their website. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: General, Random - TidBit

Thank You Cards

November 9, 2007 By Robert Owen

I just received this in my e-mail and thought I'd share.... No matter what your stand is about our involvement in Iraq, our young men and women there need to know that we as a country still think of them and care enough to say Thank You.?? A meaningful way for saying, 'Thank You!' Something cool that Xerox is doing. If you go to this web site, www.LetsSayThanks.com you can pick out a thank you card and Xerox will print it and it will be sent to a soldier that is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Random - TidBit, Site of the Week

Remote Desktop Slow in Vista

October 16, 2007 By Robert Owen

I am using my Vista Ultimate machine primarily now for day-to-day work.. And everything is running quite smoothly to be honest. No crashes, no freezes, no spyware.. Everything is great. I help manage SEVERAL servers across my WAN and use Remote Desktop to great effect. But, last week a new Server was added. I logged in with my trusty Remote desktop to start setting up an SFTP server. Only, this time everything was WAY WAY WAY Slow... I mean I was waiting a good thirty seconds between clicks. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: MicroSoft, Site of the Week, Support, Vista Quest Tagged With: Amp, Auto Tuning, Bandwidth, Crashes, Gadgets, Google, MicroSoft, New Feature, Party Utilities, Registry Values, Remote Desktop, Servers, Sftp Server, Speed Tests, Tcp Ip Stack, Third Party, Thirty Seconds, Throughput, vista, Wan, Whim

Smoke Free Tennessee

October 1, 2007 By Robert Owen

Today is the Official start of a Smoke Free Tennessee. The new law has been in place for a couple of months but it is now as of October 1, 2007, in complete effect. Ways to file a complaint: Complaints will be accepted beginning TODAY October 1, 2007. There are two ways to file a complaint or report a violation of the Non Smokers Protection Act. Web based complaint system OR Call: 1-800-293-8228 Under this new law, smoking is illegal in all enclosed public places within the State of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Random - TidBit

Site of the Week: Geek the Tube

September 28, 2007 By Robert Owen

Welcome to a new Site of the week.. This week's site deals with an issue that is important to everyone, young or old... TV Ray Camden over at Coldfusion Jedi being the lost fanatic that he is had created an area of his Coldfusion Forums to talk about Lost and other TV shows. Well, now he has split that out an created this site devoted solely to that topic. Geek the Tube So, if you are addicted to a "Geeky" TV show... Go over an check this site out and see what all the others "Geeks" … [Read more...]

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Site of the Week: TipBin

September 8, 2007 By Robert Owen

Ray Camden over a ColdfusionJedi blogged about a new site called TipBin. So, I went over to check it out and it is really pretty cool. I think everyone should go check this out and share your tips! I've not added any yet but plan on doing so this afternoon. Here's a little info from the TipBin site: About TipBin I have this theory about the world: nobody is stupid. It doesn't matter who you are, what you do, or where or how long you went to school. You know things … [Read more...]

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