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Rebate Update: Patriot Rebate Has Been Processed!

And the winner is…Patriot! Here’s the timeline: Purchased product from Newegg.com – December 5, 2011 [0 days] Registered rebate with Patriot – December 27, 2011 [22 days] Received notification that claim was received – January 12, 2012 [16 days] Received notification that rebate was processed – January 16, 2012 [4 days] Receive $30 prepaid American [...]

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[Solved] PC Won’t Wake on USB

Issue: The computer would sleep and hibernate just fine, but mouse clicks and keyboard presses wouldn’t wake it. The only thing that would resume Windows 7 was pushing the power button. Solution: RTFM. Page 9 of the a885gm-a2 motherboard manual spelled it out in plain English. In order to wake on USB, the USBPWR jumper [...]

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Building My First Computer [2.8 GHz AMD Quad-Core, 1.5 TB hard drive, 16 GB RAM - $311]

Over the holidays, I resolved to get a nice big hard drive for storing pictures of my baby. After pricing 1 TB+ hard drives, I discovered that most cost around $100. “For that amount,” I thought. “I could get a whole computer.” Not quite accurate, but for just over $300, I’ve got a working PC [...]

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Tutorial: Automatic BCC in Microsoft Outlook 2010

When using Microsoft Outlook 2010 in a corporate environment, it can be useful to automatically BCC your outgoing emails to another user or another account owned by you. Unfortunately, you cannot set up an automatic BCC Outlook rule like you might with other common tasks. Instead, you will have to create a custom Outlook script [...]

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What is this site?

This site is a repository for articles written by me and others. I wish I could give your more information than that, but there just isn’t any available.

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Mastery

1. There is something about seeing a 30 year old man playing violin with unbridled excellence that makes me feel a little sad. The thing is, that it is so beautiful, so inspiring, that I want to go out and learn violin today. But being 25 years old, it is, at this point, completely futile. [...]

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Get That Pen Moving

Get That Pen Moving 1. Get that pen moving. My stupid mind is a glacier and it’s moving nowhere fast. I mean, it’s boulder and it’s collecting moss. I mean, it’s been so long, I’ve completely lost moment. 2. I hate when people reference their own minds. I read someone’s profile once that mentioned that [...]

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Jet Lag Dreaming

1. The thing about vacationing in a different time zone: your body clock simply cannot keep up. So, the times when you would normally be sleeping, you are, technically, awake. Yet here you are – in an unfamiliar place, surrounded by unfamiliar people. The trees are tropical, alien. The food dances a different step on [...]

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Road

1. Whenever I see a dead animal on the side of the road, I’m never sure how to feel. Repulsed? Remorseful? I remember once, on his way to some party, a friend showed up very, very late. It was because, he explained, he saw a wounded cat in the road and he felt so angry [...]

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Track 6

1. Working at McDonald’s, midway through a nine hour shift, and suddenly the pie oven goes off and it sounds just like an alarm clock. 2. Standing outside, early in the morning, waiting for the dog to “do his business” (he’s in junk bonds) and I hear something vibrating and I get tense, ready to [...]

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