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Protect Yourself From The Scum
Despite all the precautions I take here to remain free of the various nasty things roaming around the net, occasionally I end up having to deal with this crap. This time one of my kids ended up infecting his PC with a ton of ad-ware. It was placing icons on his desktop and popping up…
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BeyondWireless: So Far So Good
The new BeyondWireless phone has been activated and seems to be working fine. The guy in the “porting” department called me as promised to let me know the number from the old TracFone phone has been moved to the new phone. (Bye-bye TracFone, you will not be missed!) He also activated it for me, which…
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Cell Phone Update
After some searching for another prepaid wireless provider that would work in my area, I settled on BeyondWireless. Looks the costs will be pretty close to TracFone, maybe even a little cheaper. I ordered the phone from their website and received it in a couple of days. Since we wanted to continue using the same phone…
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It Definitely Pays To Shop Around, Part 1
I hate to admit it here, but I’ve never been much of a “shop around” guy when it comes to certain things. Sure, when I am looking for a new toy, I do tend to spend a lot of time researching and shopping around for the best price. However, when it comes to those mandatory…
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Choosing A Service: The Lesser of Two Evils
If you have read much more if this blog, you’ll know that I was a TracFone customer who was completely dissatisfied with their service. We were a 3-TracFone family. Originally, we bought one for my son. Seeing how cheap it was compared to our standard cell phone plan with U.S. Cellular, we ditched the U.S.…
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Death of A TracFone
The airtime minutes on my TracFone expired yesterday. I will not be adding any more airtime. Ever. I have some plans in store for my TracFone later this week, so if you like watching video of things getting destroyed you may want to come back and check it out. Let me take this opportunity to…
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Don’t Be A Zombie
I’ll have to give credit to the spammers and other varieties of internet-dwelling lowlife for one thing: They are a damn creative bunch! They have come up with some absolutely ingenious schemes to keep the money coming in. It used to be that a virus or worm or other nasty bit of software was released…
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Yet Another Reason To Hate AOL
I had heard the stories more than once. Someone who has an internet-based business sets up a newsletter or a mailing list to stay in touch with customers and potential customers via e-mail. After signing up and agreeing to receive the newsletter or mailing list messages, some clueless AOL user receives an e-mail message just…
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Give Me A Reason!
No, that’s not a line from the latest action-adventure thriller hitting the movie theaters. Actually, I just got a call from Dish Network and it was one of those recorded messages that I hate. I didn’t get upset about this particular call for two reasons. Firstly, I have been a very happy Dish Network customer…
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The Seedy Side of The Net, Part 2
I am continually amazed at the number of low-life characters that have crawled out from under their rocks to infest the internet with all manners of schemes and scams. I imagine these must be the types of people that would have been pulling telephone scams on old ladies back in the days before the internet.…
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