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Hot on the heels of the dollars decline The Bureau of Engraving and Printing has announced that they will releasing a redesign of the five dollar bill. You may recall that originally the five wasn’t going to be redesigned. But they quickly changed their minds once counterfeiters began bleaching $5 notes and printing fake $100 [...]
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I do a fair amount of web design, I don’t think I’m amazing at it, but I also don’t suck. But here’s the thing, while I can design a good looking website, there’s only so much I can do to code sweet features. I have a basic understanding of PHP, a splash of Javascript, and [...]
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Focus on the big picture, get a savings account with a good interest rate and try and set aside a certain amount of money each month. Even if you’re only putting in $50 a month, it still adds up over the course of a few years. Figuring out just how much you’ll have put into [...]
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Here’s a random fact for you, NBC is a division of General Electrics, who knew? Okay, I’m sure a lot of you, but I just found this out 37 seconds ago.
You read the news, right? You know all about the NBC vs. Apple spat that ended in NBC planning to offer their videos through [...]
Filed under: Aaron Nelsen, Entertainment, Video by Aaron Nelsen
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The rivers are running with the tears of fanboys everywhere, as iLounge is reporting that you have to repurchase all those iPod games you’ve been kicking it with on your old iPod if you want to play them on your new iPod… even more tragically only three iPod games have been updated to work with [...]
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I run a couple different websites off the same server and have had a few problems here and there, but lately I’ve been having nothing but problems. Recently we were moved to a new server. In that move one of my domains stopped functioning altogether and this domain started working intermittently, then all the sudden [...]
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I have mad love and respect for AMD, the first computer I ever built was AMD powered, and rocked the K7. Let’s face it, I wouldn’t have been able to afford to build my own computer at age 14 if it weren’t for AMD, they undercut Intel right and left in pricing, they were the [...]
Filed under: AMD, Aaron Nelsen, Finance, Intel by Aaron Nelsen
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After spending yesterday afternoon digging spare change out of miscellaneous furniture, I went to Best Buy to buy myself a shiny new iPod touch. Yay! Only not yay… They were sold out, they’d even sold their display model… or it broke on account of people drooling on it and they took it down. Oh, the [...]
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I don’t really like Starbucks, so I’m going to enjoy writing this immensely.
A recent Consumer Reports taste-test McDonald’s coffee beat out Starbucks!
The magazine says McDonald’s Premium Roast Coffee has “no flaws,” labeling it “decent and moderately strong.” The java from Starbucks, meanwhile, was determined to be “strong, but burnt and bitter enough to make your [...]
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I ran across this Microsoft sponsored post on the blog of a friend, of a friend, of a friend… Or something like that. Anyhow, I found it rather humorous and thought I would share.
I don’t know why Mac users get so defensive when you call them idiots. I mean, Apple is a company that has [...]
Filed under: Aaron Nelsen, Linkage, Microsoft by Aaron Nelsen
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