Commercial software is available for every conceivable use, but many of these applications come with a price tag which is too high for most home users or hobbyists. With this high price, typically come bloated features which will never be used by the average user. So, not only are you wasting money, but you are [...]
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Posted in Animals, OSU, personal on Mar 19th, 2008 2 Comments »
Since a dachshund and a border collie weren’t enough, we got a greyhound. Yes, a long-legged, skinny bellied 11-month old greyhound. I would like to say that we rescued this dog as a retired racer to give her a good life after being used at the tracks. However, we had ulterior motives in mind. We got [...]
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Paint.Net is a free photo editing tool originally started as a class project at Washington State University (In fact, it is in my upcoming post “Huge List of Free Software”). IThe software is still maintained by one of the original authors even though he currently works for Microsoft (this is not a Microsoft product). The [...]
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Posted in Homes, personal on Mar 9th, 2008 1 Comment »
I am NOT a Realtor and I am not exaggerating when I say that I get asked every 2-3 weeks about my real estate career. Here’s the story… I worked in the pre-bubble dot-com days as a Sales Engineer for Vyvx. I loved this job – all technology companies seemed to have more money than common [...]
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Posted in OSU, personal on Mar 4th, 2008 3 Comments »
Since Wednesday night is the OSU/OU basketball game in Stillwater, I thought I would share my last Bedlam experience. I’m really exposing myself here and my fear is this will show up on Digg, but nevertheless, the story must be told!
On November 24, 2007 I got the surprise call around 12:30 PM that someone was giving [...]
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