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Preparing for Disaster

August 29th, 2011 · Comments Off

As we are all experiencing, disasters, natural, mechanical and man-made, do happen. Let’s not wait any longer, you need to have a backup plan for when a disaster happens to you. Since I deal with technology, I am going to leave it to you to get food, to be prepared to help yourself, family and [...]

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Tags: Backing up · Soap Box

Tablet “computer” systems: Android, Windows 7 and hardware. Using the ViewPad 10

August 25th, 2011 · 3 Comments

Over the last 5 months I have been trying to use a ViewSonic VPAD10. This is a touchpad similar to many out there. This one differs in that it is dual boot, I can boot to the Android operating system or Windows 7 Professional. In this article or series I want to cover, first the [...]

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Tags: Hardware · Purchasing · Soap Box

Microsoft Office 365: The cloud vs. your wallet

July 8th, 2011 · Comments Off

Over the years Microsoft and others have offered cloud based services, software, data and security that is located on a server somewhere “out there”. In theory you don’t have to worry about updates, security patches and backing up. Such offers include Google Doc’s and Gmail as well as what we are going over here, Microsoft [...]

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Tags: Purchasing · Soap Box · Software

Senate Joint Resolution Number 5, Missouri Constitition Amendment

October 26th, 2010 · Comments Off

Here we go again, politicians trying to change the Missouri Constitution to exempt one county from needing to elect a county assessor. SJR 5 requires EVERY county to have an elected County Assessor EXCEPT Jackson County Missouri! Why, it MUST be political bribery. Why are they changing our Constitution to pay off one of their [...]

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House Joint Resolution Number 15, Missouri Constitition Amendment

October 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Never, do I get involved in politics here, that is until today. Missourians, I just read HJR 15 in its entirety. This is not a “help the POW’s” amendment, the first thing that set my bells off was why we needed an amendment to the Missouri Constitution to exempt a POW “Who has a total [...]

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