28
April

Maps and Phone Books are Obsolete

Happened to glance at the bookcase in the spare bedroom and see all the books that I own but never seem to read after the first time. why did I buy all these books? I should have used the library!

There are a stack of phone books on the bottom shelf. I might as well throw those away. Who uses phone books for anything anymore? Not me! I can find it online faster and easier without having to heft a big cumbersome book and search through thousands of pages and other listings.

Maps are also pretty much obsolete. If you don’t have a GPS for your car, you probably have a mapping and location program or app on your smart phone. Who needs maps anymore? They are obsolete, too.

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14
April

Online Shopping is a Breeze

Whoever make the prediction 20 years ago that we would be using the internet for a lot – if not most – of our shopping, was totally correct and should be recognized. I don’t know how I would go about finding who that person was, but they do deserve a big pat on the back.

My buddy, Owen, orders everything online but groceries and gasoline for his car. I know in some big cities you can order groceries online and have them delivered to your door, but we aren’t that sophisticated around here yet. With the price of gasoline going up, I’m not sure that anyone can make a profit on delivering things any more, anyway.

I order some things from Amazon, and I recently ordered a few things from Overstock.com and both are very good about processing the order, getting the order right, and delivering in a timely manner. I ordered some items from Sears.com at Christmas, too. So far, everything has gone great. What a nice advancement for shoppers – online ordering and delivery to your door!

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10
March

Great Advice – Know When to Shut Up

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I know that sometimes we all blurt out things we later regret. I have trouble with that myself. It is even harder on Facebook, when it is so easy to make a snarky comment and then end up offending a bunch of people who can’t seem to take a joke. So I need to keep my mouth shut a little more often and watch those typing fingers, too.

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6
March

Battery Charger Mess

Doing some Spring cleaning around the house and I have little piles of things that I find and I’m trying to group them with siilar items to figure out what kind and size of store containers I need to get. I have an assortment of plastic bins and boxes, some cardboard boxes and some baskets.

The biggest pile so far is a tangled mess of wires and battery chargers. This is very disturbing to me. How did I get so many of these battery chargers? What do they go to? How did they get separated from their device that needs charging?

It would be so simple for the people who make these battery chargers to write the name of the devise on there somewhere. I have no clue what any of these go to. How am I supposed to figure out which one charges what device? Plug it in and hope it doesn’t explode?

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2
March

Browser Differences

For years I have been using Firefox as my browser. It is free from a company called Mozilla and it has always worked great for me. When I bought my first laptop, the first thing I did was install Firefox.

My office wanted to send me home with a desktop PC, which was fine with me. I use the work computer for only business, such as checking my work emails and and work related presentations. For some reason the tech support guys at work had installed Chrome as the browser on the machine.

I like them both. I believe I will stick with Firefox on my laptop though. I see no reason to change.

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