Several weeks ago, I wrote about how much more effective Hulu is than conventional TV at getting me to watch commercials. PC World recently caught on too and wrote an interesting article on the subject this week. It turns out that advertisers are paying 1.5 - 3 times more (per thousand viewers) for ads shown [...]
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This is an update to my April, 2009 post about using Callcentric to receive incoming faxes.
Back in April, I recommended using Callcentric’s fax reception feature as a cost-effective way to receive incoming faxes. In the past few days, I have had several people report that they were unable to send me faxes; both senders received [...]
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A friend of mine and I were interviewed about a week ago by Paul Krill from Computerworld and it looks like Google picked up the Norwegian version of the story first. What are your thoughts on Linux Certification?
Read my thoughts and the Computerworld article here
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A good deal of my TV viewing is done through Hulu. If you are not familiar with the service, Hulu is bascially a web-based television — allowing you to watch the latest episodes of a number of popular TV programs through your computer. To boot, they have quite an archive of old favorites too; I [...]
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UPDATED 2009/06/21 - Read my important update
I used to be a MyFax customer and they provide a great service. I have rarely ever had problems with reliability of MyFax, but the $10 per month price was pretty high when I considered that I only receive and send a few pages a month; at that price [...]
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Union card check, as presented in the dubiously named “Employee Free Choice Act”, is pretty scary stuff for both workers and entrepreneurs alike. The legislation would primarily do two things:
Allow organized labor establishment at any business, regardless of size, with a simple majority. In other words, unionization could be forced on a small business owner [...]
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Pat Wittle and I had the pleasure of attending FOSE 2009: day 2 yesterday at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in downtown Washington, D.C. We had the pleasure to take in some of the latest and greatest new technology available to government and the private sector. FOSE hosted several hundred exhibitors this year and [...]
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Thank you to everyone that came out to the CPLUG meeting tonight to hear Bob Igo and I talk about Magento /VirtualBox and LimeSurvey.
You can download my Introduction to LimeSurvey PowerPoint slides: HERE
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I will be presenting an overview and demo of the LimeSurvey open source electronic survey software this evening at 6:30pm for the Central Pennsylvania Linux User Group (CPLUG); we meet at ITT Tech on Eisenhower Blvd in Harrisburg, PA. The meeting details can be found here if you would like to attend: CPLUG Meeting Details
Some [...]
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I recently moved back to Pennsylvania and the house that I moved to has but one option for high-speed internet: DSL provided by Embarq. Unfortunately, Embarq is not as progressive as their competitors that offer DSL as a standalone service. If you are not savvy about so-called dry-loop DSL (or as Embarq calls it, “naked” [...]
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