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You're reading "Scrumptious Word Morsels" by Matt Jacob. This is my blog that I publish several times monthly on occasion to discuss, complain, praise, geek out, and mostly, just to keep my writing sharp. To find out more about me, visit the about page.
Status Updates
- Here's another email tip, free of charge: next time you consider attaching a file greater than 100 KB in size, just turn your computer off.
3 days ago - Doing a long-overdue paperwork purge. How come I can file digital things just fine, but not physical pieces of paper?
4 days ago - Saw a car with an "HONOR GOD" bumper sticker driving 20+ posted speed and tailing people aggresively. That really frosts my cookies.
8 days ago - The tea party movement might be a little out there for me, but I could definitely see myself joining a sweet tea party movement.
9 days ago - In running for the governorship of California, Meg Whitman's starting bid is $40m and her Buy It Now price is $150m.
14 days ago
- Here's another email tip, free of charge: next time you consider attaching a file greater than 100 KB in size, just turn your computer off.
Category Archives: technology
How I roll: outsourcing critical services
Warning: this post is moderately technical in nature. I think it’s the first technical post I’ve done in almost five years here, so I apologize in advance if it’s too geeky for you.
I’m trying a new feature around here called How I Roll. It seems like I get lots of questions from other people about [...]
Think You Know Your Stuff?
Think you can tell a fake email from a real email, eh? Think you’d neeeeeever give out a username and password to scammers in Laos, do you? Well, now you can find out how street smart you are on the Web. Take this 10-question phishing quiz from McAfee to see how well you fare.
I know [...]
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Verizon’s Own Personal Internet
I just got an email from Verizon Wireless letting me know that my cell phone bill is now available for online viewing. The message also provides information about paying the bill online and signing my soul over to Verizon so that they can automatically siphon funds out of my checking account every month (no thanks).
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Sucking Down Coffee and Wi-Fi
Well, my friends, I am currently living the American dream. In fact, right now I’m a highly mobile, RSS feed reading, social networking, web browsing twentysomething—and I don’t even feel all that cool. I’ve got my laptop. I’ve got my Starbucks drink (my second of the evening). I’ve got my cordless frickin’ laser mouse. Heck, [...]
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Evil, evil spam. So, so evil.
We all know that spam is an inherent evil of using the internet, but apparently I’ve got some particularly bad mojo clogging up my mailbox. The mark of the email apocalypse is upon us!
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My Switch to Mac: First Impressions
It’s been almost two weeks since I made the switch to Mac after using Windows nearly exclusively for about ten years. I don’t have any regrets, and I’m really enjoying OS X, but there are a few hardware caveats related to the MacBook Pro itself.
First, I think mine has a defective tilde (~) key. The [...]
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Switching to the Dark Side
For those of you who have been living under a technological rock for the past few days, Apple released their Boot Camp software around the middle of last week, and that’s what I want to talk about. Because of Boot Camp, and more fundamentally, because of Apple’s switch to Intel processors, the next computer I [...]
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Google Apps: impressions after 14 months