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Shelf-safe milk
Apparently, shelf-safe milk (the link is a plug for Tetra Pak) has been a thing since the 1960s, thanks to high-power pasteurization (ultra-high-temperature) and packaging technology. I first learned...
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Selling Snake Oil with Name-Dropping.
I don’t like scammers. I don’t like woo-peddlers. I don’t like people who take advantage of the gullible and/or the vulnerable to make money at any cost. I’ve written numerous times about snake-oil...
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Brutally Honest Voting Stickers
Not mine, seen at Facebook – and I think Glenn Beck had some input here. But worth sharing. Click to view slideshow. And I can really relate to many of these. The Old Wolf volunteers as tribute.
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A compendium of hopes and fears
The election of 2016 is over, and the result I would not have imagined in a thousand night terrors has materialized. I couldn’t sleep last night, and put a lot of my thoughts out on Facebook in the...
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An open letter to Trump: Stop the hatred.
Edit: Just after posting this, I saw that Mr. Trump had said something like this on “60 Minutes.” That’s good… but it’s not enough. A targeted and specific message is needed. Dear President-elect...
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Now it’s the “EU Business Register.”
To: redacted From: EU Business Register <register@eubusinessreg.com> Subject: Business Register 2016/2017 Dear Madam/Sir, In order to have your company inserted in the EU Business Register for...
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Images of the Middle East – Félix Bonfils
In the process of researching something else (this is how it usually works, and don’t even mention TVTropes)… … I encountered this lovely group of photos by Félix Bonfils, a French photographer who was...
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Have you noticed that the search function in Windows 10 really sucks?
What a difference from Windows 7. Half the time I’ll search for something I know exists in my libraries, and Win10 won’t find it. I ask for a search only in my desktop, and it will search the whole...
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This movie is what 3D was made for.
As a kid in the 60s, Dr. Strange was one of my favorite characters. And it hardly needs to be said that his Grand High Excellence Mr. Cumberbatch is perfect for this rôle. This was the film that...
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Don’t be fooled by work at home scams.
There are plenty of people out there who will tell you that affiliate marketing works. From what I can see, it’s possible to function in this niche in an ethical and profitable way, if you’re willing...
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Protect yourself from ransomware
It’s still big business for crooks, most of whom have switched from the “Nigerian Prince” letters because it’s a far easier way of generating money. An employee gets an official-looking email about an...
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Even the best cartoonists repeat now and then.
I grew up on Peanuts™. I learned how to read with the first Peanuts book that appeared in 1952, and read them voraciously as other volumes were published. Over time my collection was sold or given away...
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Business Loan Scam
I apologize to my readers if this blog sounds like a broken record at times, but the dangers from scammers and fraudsters is real – and the more information available, the more likely that someone...
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Fred Rogers, the quiet radical
I have long loved and admired Fred Rogers. He’s so good and genuine that he’s generated numerous memes and cultural references, the one below from Sandra and Woo: Today I stumbled across an...
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Winter is Coming, whether HBO likes it or not.
This beautiful painting by a 13-year-old girl, who just happens to have some autism to deal with, was posted at the arts and crafts site, RedBubble. She called it “Winter is Coming.” Lawyers at HBO,...
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IT is an expense. IT doesn’t make money for the company.
I saved this from over at reddit some time ago, and I’m sharing it here because I thought it could use wider exposure. This post is largely for IT professionals, of whom I know a fair community,...
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Next of Kings
I haven’t got Nigerian spam for a long time. I changed email addresses, and Gmail is really good at filtering these things out. That said, I saw one today as I was cleaning out my spam box that made me...
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No, Virginia, “brain booster” pills don’t work.
I have inveighed many times against the deceptive nature of affiliate marketing. It’s getting worse all the time, and otherwise legitimate entities are promoting it by allowing anybody and their...
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The Saga of Window 10 – so now my scanner doesn’t work any more.
When I first bit the bullet and upgraded from Win 7 to Win 10, I lost my HP PSC 950 printer – no available drivers could get it to work. By dint of a lot of pray-and-try fiddling, I was able to get my...
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The only way to the stars.
It won’t be technology that gets us there, although that’s a critical part of the equation. It won’t be money alone. Humanity won’t crawl out of the mud until we really learn to care for each other....
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