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Shop Online - Never Leave Your Home Again

Online stores are great for Agoraphobics, people who have fear or anxiety attacks when in crowded places, like the mall. These people would rather be home, always. I am not agoraphobic, I enjoy shopping at the mall or at other stores. But, I also like to shop from home, because 9 times out of 10, [...]

Ebay-Uh-oh-Wha Happened?

Ok, so I have been scammed into a few schemes and different financial traps.  I like to call them life learning lessons.  Currently, I am enrolled in 6 life learning lessons on a popular website you may be familiar with, Ebay.  You see, I got all starry eyed over some makeup on there cause I’ve been [...]

Clear Brand Goes Wire-less

Re-branding their service to “Clear”, ClearWire loses the attachment to wires altogether. The mobile Internet service offers unlimited local telephone service for $25 per month [keep your same phone number] and a similar price for Internet. Claiming faster Internet connections than you would get from your cell phone company, and no real numbers to back it [...]

A Pact With The Devil

News Corp. and Microsoft are working on a deal that might take News Corp. content off of Google and put it exclusively on Bing, Microsoft’s search engine. That means that if you do a Google search, content from a News Corp. outlet, such as The Wall Street Journal or Fox News, would not show up. [...]

Karl Rove Reads My Tweets

It is surprising that so many celebrities and public figures are accessible through a simple online message service like Twitter. If you are a fan, Ashton Kutcher is just a tweet away. Last night, I started following Elizabeth Taylor (Dame Elizabeth Taylor). Under any other circumstances, it would be considered “stalking” to say that I [...]

Best Buy’s “Geek Squad” Looks More Like A Goon Squad

Thanks to news hound Johnathan Lyman’s nooze for nose, or whatever, it seems that Best Buy’s “Geek Squad” are really a bunch of geeks. Included here is investigative video from a Portland Oregon tv station uncovering the geek squad charging people for computer repairs that weren’t even necessary. Like for example, a power cord that [...]