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Month: October 2008

Investment Business Daily Falls Far Short In Its Opinions.

Investment Business Daily Falls Far Short In Its Opinions.

Investment Business Daily, or IBD, is devoted to investment facts and teaching you how to buy stocks and mutual funds.  For that purpose, it does a fine job.   Naturally you would expect a financial publication to have a Republican slant in its opinion section.  This publication, in our opinion, is for all practical purposes, devoid of any practical level of being unbiased in favor of the Republican viewpoint.  For this reason, it is our feeling that the opinion section…

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Apple Repairs Computer That Is Out Of Warantee

Apple Repairs Computer That Is Out Of Warantee

We have a iMac 20 inch computer that was purchased September 2004.  Beginning the summer of 2008 it began to exhibit some disturbing symptoms.  It would not wake up from sleep mode.  The fans would race at high speed for hours.  Some times the computer would begin to shut itself off.  We took the computer in to the Genius Bar, at an Apple store, September 2008.  The technician looked the computer over and told us they would repair the unit…

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Icom HS-51 Headset

Icom HS-51 Headset

I have previously purchased Prime headsets for my hand held radio also called a handy talky or HT for short.  I need the headset for two city RACES events a year.  Problem is that the Prime microphone fails to function properly after two events.  This failure happened twice in two years.  Buying these headsets every year was getting expensive.  I called my local Ham Radio Outlet store and explained my problem.  The salesman suggested I consider buying the Icom HS-51….

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Calculating Parent Audiance Size

Calculating Parent Audiance Size

I was having a conversation with a PTA mother as to how many parents might attend a school event I was helping to plan.  She raised a point that was most shocking to me.  We had a set number of children that were comming to the event and I naturally calculated two parents for each child.  This PTA mom told me to calculate four parents for each child.  The reason was that so many children came from divorced parents.

Starbucks Tip

Starbucks Tip

I must admit that I have an addiction.  I must have a Zebra coffee drink, extra hot, light whip, each day.  Because Starbucks coffee is so strong and their dark chocolate is so strong, I have settled upon the ideal coffee drink, with the help of quite a few baristas.  I love chocolate but the Starbucks chocolate needs to be toned down a bit so a white chocolate is added.  To soften the coffee flavor I ask for a bit…

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