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Traveling the Country You Built

I imagine those who don’t live close to a stop along the famous Route 66 hear less about the topic than I do. I’m still impressed by those who actually do hear about it. Not so much the people who live in America, but the people who come from other countries every summer just to make the drive. Some join up with antique car tours and others simply rent a car to make the journey. … Traveling the Country You BuiltRead more

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Fast vs. Slow Calories

Once you get to a certain age you have to start checking and watching your sugar. For some this age comes early in life with a diagnosis of diabetes and for others it comes when you “approach 50.” Rest assured, if you life long enough and actually have to go see a doctor at some point, this task is in your future if not on your daily to-do list already. One thing I have yet … Fast vs. Slow CaloriesRead more

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If I Only Had Time to Focus

How many times have we all said that? I would complete “thing x” if I had time to focus on it. Sadly, it is a lie we tell not only ourselves, but to others. Today, October 30th, 2013, we had yet another HughesNet outage. No matter what those commercials say about Gen4 and its “customer satisfaction” I can tell you J.D. Edwards never talked to me or anyone I know. The phone number for HughesNet … If I Only Had Time to FocusRead more

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If You Ran OpenVMS You Wouldn’t Have to Be Outraged

I almost couldn’t write this post.  My sides hurt from laughing so hard.  This story about Google being outraged by the NSA hacking is absolutely hilarious!  Seriously???  You run a business on a “free” OS on a joke-of-the-industry CPU and you are outraged you got hacked?  I got news for you, the source is available to everyone.  Much of the code which goes in gets written by people who are unemployed and may not even … If You Ran OpenVMS You Wouldn’t Have to Be OutragedRead more