Category Archives: Rave

Ode to credit card payments using machine or human

I travel a lot. And as a result, I fly out of Houston Hobby airport and become very efficient and getting there, parking, and making a fast get-a-way. Something occur to me a few weeks ago as I was peeling … Continue reading

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Flight Status using Google SMS

Tonight, while reading through Lifehacker, came across a great post on checking flight status using Google SMS. Apparently, by sending a text message to Google SMS like “Southwest Flight 48″, you will receive a message back with the status of … Continue reading

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Judge upholds $30M Judgement against Ebay…what the?

The AP is reporting that a federal judge upheld a ruling in favor of a small Virgina based companies claim of patent infringement by EBay. The article states: The dispute revolves around eBay’s “Buy It Now” option, which sellsmerchandise at … Continue reading

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A Christmas Tragedy

Once I realized that it was the woman sitting a few chairs down from me snoring and not some special affect, I was able to realize how bad of a telling of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol put on at … Continue reading

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TLAP Follow Up

joel s says:Hoist the mizzen and swing the lead! tryin’ out this new pirate talk thin’y fer MSN joel s says:http://messenger.zone.msn.com/en-us/nongame/upgrade.aspx?gameID=10331057 joel s says:Swab the deck, matey or you’ll kiss the gunner’s daughter. it automatically translates into pirate fer yeAye, … Continue reading

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Humanized.com…putting the human back into customer support

From an earlier post, I raved about Enso, a product produced by Humanized.com. If you haven’t tried out Enso and you work on a PC, you have to. It makes working on the PC easy by killing the need for … Continue reading

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