Posted in Internet, Microsoft Windows, computer stuff, software on May 27th, 2009 No Comments »
Why does Microsoft make it so difficult to find the links to download Internet Explorer 8 as a standalone installer? It use to be at the bottom of the stub-installer download page. Well after some digging, I found them and here are direct links to the standalone off-line installers of the release [...]
Posted in finance on May 26th, 2009 1 Comment »
I cannot believe that I received a letter today via USPS and e-mail (yes, both arrived today) from Advanta Bank Corp. notifying me that they are shutting down ALL Business Credit Card Accounts effective May 30th. That is in 4 days! Are they going bankrupt? I cannot believe a bank gives a cardholder [...]
Posted in blogging, news & politics, publishing on May 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
I just came across a website that allows people to publish articles. It is called Scribd and it is very interesting to find that Barack Obama uses them to publish his proposals and rescue plans (found here on Scribd). Guess it is an efficient way of getting his ideas out in writing.
It has [...]
Posted in music video on May 21st, 2009 2 Comments »
Since they disabled “embedding” on YouTube for the actual (original) music videos here are the links to them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0QCCNCkvzI
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG9XfJxMY8A
This is one of my favorite songs. Love the message this song delivers.
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Posted in Internet, computer stuff, network security on May 19th, 2009 No Comments »
Facebook announced that it would support OpenID and it finally went live with it according to this article: Facebook Becomes Largest OpenID Relying Party.
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Posted in automotive, news & politics on May 19th, 2009 1 Comment »
Today in the New York Times, it is reported that President Obama will announce on Tuesday tougher regulations on auto emissions along with better fuel economy requirements. All I can say “it is a about time someone did something about this”. Having various state standards gave car manufacturers ways to circumvent tougher regulations. [...]
Posted in finance, news & politics on May 19th, 2009 1 Comment »
In today’s New York Times article Credit Card Industry Aims to Profit From Sterling Payers, it makes you think … why should we continue to use credit cards, if we are charged a fee to use it and get nothing back? … also why should stores accept credit cards, if the cut the credit card [...]