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Got Portland Oregon House Cleaning ?

I’m in Portland visiting relatives and wanted to shout out to Peggy’s great Portland Oregon House Cleaning service called Bridge City Cleaning.   Peggy’s got a team of great cleaners and they are...

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AVG Secure Search Troubleshooting

It’s nice that AVG provides a high quality free product for computer security, but in what appears to be a scramble to monetize their big and recent venture capital investment it *appears* that AVG has...

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It’s OK to HOLD STRONG OPINIONS! Just respect other’s rights to do so also.

I’m very concerned about a trend among smart people.   I’m very fortunate to have many sharp friends and family members, but there seems to be a tendency to think that holding strong opinions is...

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Climate Change, Bjorn Lomborg, and why we need more nuclear power.

I’d really urge people to read Bjorn Lomborg more carefully.  He is a very good analyst but unfortunately he’s become a major lightning rod for controversy because people don’t like to hear such well...

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WordPress – Inspire Me ?! lololoooool?

WordPress has a new feature that’s supposed to inspire folks to write in their blogs.   I guess that’s cool, but it seems kind of funny to me.  If you are a big victim of writers block maybe you should...

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Advice to Startup Entrepreneurs. Just say NO!

After some excellent insight in a recent email from Jason Calacanis (a VERY sharp and successful startup entrepreneur), I revisited my working hypothesis about folks doing startups.   It’s a bit ironic...

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Domain Name Renewal Scams – BEWARE!

If you have a website BEWARE of scammy “renewals” that you’ll get in the mail and online. This is a VERY common scam where the perp sends a fake renewal note saying your domain will expire and you need...

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GamerGate – don’t hold your breath on changes to gaming, which is driven by...

RE: GamerGate I’m always torn in these battles.  On the one hand I’m very sympathetic to the idea we need more women in computing. Also I have great contempt for the harassing / sexism / misogyny that...

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Blogging Again?

Not yet…..

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Coronavirus and COVID-19 Resources

The world is reeling under the pressure of the Covid Pandemic and the subsequent economic turmoil. Here I’ll post high quality information resources about the pandemic.  In a future post we’ll address...

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