It tastes like burning

I can’t help but wonder, but with all these companies announcing massive layoffs, are they doing it because they need to. Or are they using the current economic downturn as an excuse to trim the fat.

I just recieved an email from Netflix that states they are keeping the user profiles that so many of their subscribers use. I use their profiles for managing our queue, and thought that getting rid of them was a pretty bad idea, but I wasn’t going to do anything drastic, like cancel my service. Netflix [...]

Every time I write a post using the Firefox plugin, ScribeFire, it schedules the post instead of actually publishing the content, even though I tell it to publish. Then the real kicker is I can’t figure out how to get it to publish via the WordPress control. If I tell it to publish, it just [...]

Pretty interesting creation:

One of the weekend projects is to clean my office, and right away I found my old 3com HomeConnect webcam. It’s been years since I ran it, plus I think my kids have been using it as a toy, so I decided to see if still works. After a getting the driver and finding some [...]

Zenhabits has posted a great entry called 5 Powerful Reasons to Drive Slower, and How to Do It. I’ve been a ‘slower’ driver for years, and I can attest to some of the reasons to drive slower, the big one being save your sanity. When I’m driving, not worried about how soon I will get [...]

Back when I was in high school, I owned a Honda Spree. I also had a car, but I rode the moped whenever I could. There was actually quite a few of us who rode mopeds, we were almost like a little moped gang. But over the recent years, I haven’t seen a lot of [...]

“As unobtrusive as a small electric clock, the PowerCost Monitorâ„¢ is a powerful real-time direct feedback display device for domestic energy consumers. It tells them at a glance, in real-time, how much electricity their home is using in dollars and cents and in kW.” Personal Finance Advice – » Tracking Electricity Usage Just Got Easier

Good info. I just wish I was discipline enough to do the same. Frugal Lunch by Clever Dudette at Clever Dude Total savings = $19.00/week * 52 weeks = $988.00 via: lifehack.org

For some reason, I’m really drawn to Arch Linux. I’ve used it in the past(probably a couple of years ago), with decent success. However, recently I’ve been wanting to try it again, but am having many issues. I won’t go in to the issues I’m having, yet, as I haven’t researched deeply in to them, [...]