On Wednesday evening, I experienced my first “real” hail storm. My car sustained $4500 in damage in less than 10 minutes of bad weather. Luckily I didn’t have any glass damage as the subsequent water damage often totals a car. Hopefully this wasn’t our official welcome to Texas. Hail measurement: Here is a video from [...]
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Local business owners – Claim your location on Google Maps before someone else does
My family owns a brick and mortar toy store called LearningTower Toys located in Port Jefferson Station. It’s a small town located on Long Island, New York, for those not familiar with the Northeast. The business has been in existence since 1996 and has had a website since 1998. They recently discovered that their business [...]
CNN.com – Chicago saying au revoir to foie gras
CNN.com – Chicago saying au revoir to foie gras – Aug 14, 2006 Tomorrow marks the ban on foie gras in Chicago. I’m sure animal rights activists will be celebrating but I’m adding this to the list of reasons NOT to visit Chicago. I love foie gras but that is not the reason this legislation [...]
Wired News: Tales From Packaging Hell
Wired News: Tales From Packaging Hell I was wondering when someone would finally write about this annoyance. From the article, “the hardest part of buying electronics these days is opening the products when you get them home.”
I don’t want to be a Sys Admin
Back in February I migrated our server over to Lunarpages. It is extremely hard to find reliable information on web hosts but most of their feedback seemed positive. At first, they were great but I’ve lost a lot of sleep over the past few weeks. They were in the process of moving our servers to [...]