April 2011
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#humanity, #republicans, #democrats - Are you part...
Somewhere, somehow society has forgot civility. I know it is hard to believe, it’s not like we have young girls being molested by the TSA. It’s not like when your driving down the freeway and put your blinker on people speed up and cut you off. I’m certain America would never go to war killing people over oil. Those kind of things never happen. Not in the Grand Ole U.S. of...
March 2011
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Companies Still Not Using Social Media
I came across an advertisement that might be something my sister would be interested in earlier today. I clicked the Ad and was directed to the Knott’s Berry Farm site and landing page. I was dismayed a site trying to sell us a very social experience without a way to share it with our friends!
It is amazing how often I find large companies and small mom and pop stores that don’t...
November 2010
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Stop Gate Rape Now
This would be so much easier if instead of politically correct euphemisms the TSA Agents called the choices what they are: Agent: How do you and your family want to go through security? Do you want to be bombarded with radiation and have your naked pictures saved on our computers so a nameless government contractors can post it to the Internet? Or do you want to have your children molested,...
October 2010
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News Corp thrusts a dagger into the heart of Net...
@obama, @google, @hulu is this the future of the net? News Corp has laid down the gauntlet and thrust a dagger into the heart of Net Neutrality! According to the story at Gizmodo News Corp is banning all Cable Vision customers from viewing Fox shows on Hulu.
It is critical action is taken on this. Net Neutrality is free speech! While this issue doesn’t effect me today it does set a...
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How To Delete Gedit ~ Temporary Files
It’s a curse we love ‘em and hate ‘em. Temporary backup files can be real life savers. The problem often is that by enabling them on every application you end up with lots of extraneous files littering your hard drive. One application is a particularly bad litterer; Gedit!
To get rid of the existing temporary files you can use the following command:
find . -name '*~' -print0...
July 2010
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Is your Linux system running low on disk space?
This happens to me quite often. Sometimes I just need to move some large data files such as all the video that is getting shot with my Droid to my external storage. Other times I need the files I am working on but still need some extra space. What can I do?
This is the question I was asking myself this morning. I pondered this for a few seconds and realized that I recently did a clean install...
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Obligatory 1st Post
Every blog needs an obligatory 1st post that introduces the author and blogs subject matter to the reading audience. http://markfinch.info is the weblog for… You probably guessed it: Mark Finch an International Businessman, Software Developer, Writer, Technologist, Designer, Artist, and Inventor.
Most of the last decade Mark was in Asia managing International Trade, learning the Chinese...
April 2010
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Need a new phone? We’re still waiting for Verizon...
Many blogs reported that today April 12th would be the launch. Yet it is already after business hours and the phone did not materialize. A quick look shows that some have already revised those estimates and are reporting the 29th.
I am looking into buying a new phone and would like to be on the Verizon Network, but these nasty delays are making it hard to decide.
Wirefly has the Motorola...