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Hell’s Kitchen has really won me over

I usually don’t care too much for reality TV, honestly, I feel like its ruining television. After saying that, I have to admit that I have absolutely fell in love with Hells Kitchen. The first episode I saw, I thought Chef Gordon Ramsay was an arrogant, rude, foul mouth prick…excuse my language, but that’s what [...]

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Always shred your important documents

How important is shredding your documents before you throw them in the trash? Is that something you do? Do you ever think about it much? I am currently writing a blog post about a product on my other blog that made me think of a little story. It actually made me pay better attention to [...]

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Microsoft and Yahoo? Heres 4 other tech companies I would like to see merge

Everyone is talking about the Microsoft Yahoo potential merger lately. I think there are some obvious good reasons for them to merger, and of coarse when dealing with Microsoft, there are always bad reasons. Put that merger aside for a minute. Think about all of the other companies out there, all of the other sections [...]

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Farewell Compusa

I still remember the day I found out that a CompUSA was being built in my city. Seemed like yesterday. Its all coming to an end soon though. With news that Compusa planning to hang their hats and close the rest of the 130 stores in the US. Yea I visited Best Buy and Circuit [...]

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Second life avatar, 95 on Maxim’s 100 top women

Ive been a casual but consistent reader of Maxim Magazine. Seem like there is always an issue or 2 laying around the break room at work. I’m not going to lie and say that the women on the cover doesn’t help its popularity, but the magazine do sometimes have some interesting articles. One of the [...]

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Too much of anything can kill you!

Last week (or it may have been a little longer) I talked about how I wanted to switch my other blog over to wordpress. That blog was built using Dotnetnuke and while DNN  was ok, I have been using Wordpress on Jonespc.com and love the features. The problem, as I mentioned in that blog post [...]

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Useless software…Do you ever install it? Do you actually ever use it?

When I first got high speed internet, the cable installer came over and installed everything for me. He installed the NIC card, Plugged in the cable modem, installed the cable modem’s software, then called the company to get everything set up. After he left, I sat at the computer for the first time and fired [...]

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Bypass firewalls, filters, blocks, surf anonomously, and everything else you’re not suppose to be doing!

There are times when you need a little online privacy. You need to beable to hop online, without anyone knowing what you are doing?
Maybe you are at work and there are internet restrictions.
Maybe you are accessing websites on a public or borrowed PC and you don’t want to leave any tracks.
There are a few ways [...]

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Are you a “Techie” or is your job just tech related? I think theres a difference

What is the difference between someone being a "Techie" and someone who just works in a tech related field? Is there a difference? Think about it, is every mechanic at the dealership a "gearhead"? Is everyone at the gym a "fitness enthusiast"? If you buy a nice stereo system for your home, does that make [...]

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Which of these fall 2007 TV shows will get canceled?

I must say, I have really fell in love with television in the last few years. It started with the show 24, then with Lost. Eventually I got to the point where I am a junkie for what I like to call prime time soap opera’s. All those shows that have those overall underlying story [...]

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