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TJX Needs A Good Slap In The Face
OK, so this post will be more of a rant than anything else, but I find myself so ticked off about this whole TJX data breach thing that I have to sound off a little bit somewhere. For those that have not heard, there is a company called TJX that is the parent company for…
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Citronella Bark Control Collar: Don’t Waste Your Money
I recently presided over a major clean-up effort here at my house. The end of the year seemed like a good time to get a fresh start by getting rid of all the useless junk that has been accumulating around here for the last few years. It would have been easier to believe “decades” if…
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Hate Obnoxious Salespeople? Stay Away From Quicken Loans!
I’m getting better at trusting my instincts these days, and most of the time it serves me well. That certainly was the case during my dealings with Quicken Loans very recently. As you may have noticed, mortgage interest rates have dipped again lately and are looking quite reasonable. Having missed out on the last round…
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An E-Mail That Deserves To Be Deleted
I got an e-mail yesterday that was obviously an attempt to infect my PC with something. A few years ago that something would very likely be a run-of-the-mill virus. These days however, it is more likely to be some kind of trojan program that would allow some hacker somewhere to turn my PC into a…
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Getting A Lot of Spam Lately?
Maybe you have not noticed an increase in e-mail spam over the last week or two because you get so much of it under normal circumstances, but I can tell you that there has been a virtual storm of e-mail spam going on. I can always tell when this happens because a few spam messages…
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Cool Product For Avoiding Traffic Tickets
Sometimes I just stumble upon and a product that I think is so cool that I just have to write about it somewhere. My big problem with this particular product is that I really have no use for it. But I guess I won’t let that stop me from telling others about it. The product…
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Timely Advice: Read The Fine Print!
I was watching the local Fox channel’s morning news show this morning and they were talking a little about deceptive advertising. If you have read some of the other stuff I have posted here, you’ll know that is one of my favorite topics. The show featured a fellow who operates a web site on the…
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More Scam E-Mail Messages
It’s been a while since I have posted any information regarding e-mail scams. Frankly, I just got a bit sick of the same old scams arriving in my inbox all the time and I shut off the e-mail account that was attracting most of it. Just today one of my other e-mail accounts picked up…
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It Definitely Pays To Shop Around, Part 2
Here’s another good example of why it pays to shop around. I was quite amazed to see how much I was able to save on auto insurance by switching to another company, With my oldest son newly licensed this year, I was warned by my insurance agent that the we would be paying more for…
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UK Lottery Scam E-Mail
Since I have eliminated most of my e-mail addresses that were receiving lots of spam, I was a bit surprised to see a new scam e-mail show up at one of my e-mail addresses. I have heard about these lottery scams before and have even received a few of them in the past, but this…
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