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Recently I completed listening to Tom Friedman's " World is Flat " on an audiobook had to agree with a lot of his statements, especially given how my life has been spawned over several countries and continents in the last decade. But when it comes to
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Late June, I had managed to get myself 2 tickets within a week which were to be contested at the Bellevue Court and one at the State court. The fines for the infractions were initially to about $300 (total) though the potential damage it could do to my
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Before Christmas on my first attempt to buy a Nano on the internet I was scammed by some scam artistes who had a history of scamming and changing their names. Ofcourse having bought everything on Ebay from books, to batteries, to digital cameras to even
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Another of my longfound truths of life was deemed false today. LongFound Truth of Life # 671: "Any email that usually starts with the words - "Congratulations" is a Junk Mail from a newly minted "multi-Millionaire" from a faraway country to wants your
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There have been tons of discussion around " Flashy Car Colors leading to tickets ", but do speeding tickets happen in pairs (read: within a week) ? Well based on my experience in PA and in WA, and some of my friends here at work (who shall be unnamed
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On my migration from Office 2003 to Office 12 - Outlook went from slow to Stop. After long calls with the IT Helpdesk the problem was resolved. My PST files were 1.8GB big, the recommended size is about 1 GB. It took a good part of 4 hrs to chunk that
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Remember the mainframe concept of consolidation? Where all the CPU power, rules , data are all in one central server - and if that crashes all hell breaks loose? Well the way I maintain my wallet is not too dissimilar to that. All credit cards, cash,
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Prologue: In a few wks I am on point to launch the Security SKUs from the Enterprise Services - so I have been dreaming about assessment frameworks, customer paintpoints, value propositions etc for waay too long these days. Maybe a function of these hallucinations
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Have you ever had a situation when you read too much into something, made some assumptions and consequently the wrong decisions? Well we all have! Here is my recent story on this. The Bi-Weekly Mortgage Payment companies Background: If you had a mortgage
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Long airport lines, crowded malls, distant Sleigh-bell sounds in bars (I know! it is crazy) arent the only "scroogey" part of the holiday seasons - but lately - it has been the viruses too. This holiday season - its the new Santa IM Worm - bah thats old
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$250 is the retail price for the Nano and thanx to Froogle and some other websearches I found a great deal at Micheles2Go/Seconds2Go4You.com which had the Nano for 200$ only . Here is what happened * Bought and paid for the Nano on Oct 9th 2005. * I get
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There is a class action lawsuit filed against Apple according to this article that says Customers across the world have reported a flaw in the Nano screen . The lawsuit is the result of UK resident Ben Jennings’s complaint - which is typical (according
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First up - yes I do have a Gmail account (1 yr old), just like I have a hotmail account (11 yrs old), a Yahoo account (8 yrs old). The concept is cool, the Huge storage is a great benefit for customers and hey I do also see some merit in searching v/s
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At first it just does not make sense. Something as mundane as getting a roommate in (it's after they come in - that the problem arises) - has a scam associated with it. I have been looking for roomies for my place for a month and advertising in the usual
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I remember having a conversation I had with a fellow colleague 2 wks ago when I had scheduled my Comcast Cable setup for my home. The Comcast guys said that they'd arrive at my place between 12noon and 4 pm and that if they could not make it on time -
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