I am not an estate planner, financial advisor, or any other type of legal advice dispenser. These are simply my observations and you do with them what you will. Every couple of years we see big stories in the press about how the estate tax burden forces family businesses out of business when someone dies. People keep trying to “raise the tax free cap” claiming most businesses do not have enough cash on hand to … Estate Tax – Just a Tax on Greedy Stupid Power Hungry People?Read more
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Does Anyone Else Remember When the Ghetto Was Universally Hated?
The title kind of says it all. I remember those times. Perhaps I’m part of the last generation which will remember such times. I know prior generations held firmly to the belief. No matter where they came from, any able bodied person who found themselves in the ghetto hated being there and worked any job they could find to get out of the ghetto. Today this isn’t the case. Sadly many people think being a … Does Anyone Else Remember When the Ghetto Was Universally Hated?Read more
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Why the LS-120 Still Survives
I’ve written about the LS-120 on this blog before but I thought about it again today. You see, yet another Micro Center sales paper showed up. There were big sections for USB flash drives and SD cards, but nothing listed for organizers. I paid a visit to eBay to find a bunch of SD travel cases aimed at family vacationers, but nothing for desktop storage and organization. There was absolutely nothing for USB flash drives … Why the LS-120 Still SurvivesRead more
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It May Not Be Your RAM
Several months ago it seemed like my monitor quit working after a reboot. It had been working just fine before that, so, naturally I was perplexed. My ViewSonic VG2030wm had never failed me before, and it “seemed” like it should be working. I swapped out the video card for another card with DVI port and had some odd display. OpenSuSE told me the monitor was not responding with its type which seemed quite strange. Both … It May Not Be Your RAMRead more
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Intermittent Amped Wireless Failures
Is there anything more infuriating than intermittent failures? They happen time and again until you finally find a pattern. Usually you “upgrade” to something different long before you find the failure pattern. I’ve been tracking down Amped Wireless failures for about a month. Things would work great for hours, sometimes days, then, it would just lose connection. You could reconfigure it and see 61% signal strength from the base unit, but still not be able … Intermittent Amped Wireless FailuresRead more