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How my cable company stole Christmas.

I sat down this evening to enjoy one of my favorite Christmas specials, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” only to find that my reception was constantly interrupted by annoying digital squelching and chunking. I hate that. It only seemed to be happening on the one channel I wanted to watch, too! How [...]

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Frankenputer.

While surfing various articles today, I ran across a truly disturbing idea posted on Computerworld.com’s site. The article discusses “hybrid” computers. At first, I was thinking that they found a better, more energy efficient way to run computers. The annoying “going green” phenomenon is so hot right now. (Reference ridiculous “green” weak [...]

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I am a self-proclaimed genius!

Recently, my Powerbook G4 laptop died. I thought that I was going to be hosed. Last year the hard drive died in my laptop (only two years old at the time), and I was severely distressed. After a huge drama, I finally ended up with a new hard drive, but all of my [...]

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The Universe has yet to balance out.

Let’s step back in time for a moment if you will so indulge me. There was a time when I befriended a girl, not necessarily because we had a ton in common, but because we were working in the same place and were one of the few women under 30. Over the course [...]

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I LOVE saying, “I told you so!”

I’m not sure if discussing sports on the Mendax site is against some unspoken rule, but I’m going to stick my neck out there and see what happens. I haven’t really cared about sports in a long time. In fact, the last time I really cared about what happened in sports was when [...]

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