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Peer to Peer Backup solutions appearing

3, Jan 2009

To the Napster (real, not pay-for) generation, such as my self, the peer-to-peer thing has always been enticing.  That’s why I was so impressed when I stumbled upon CrashPlan last week.  It immediately struck me as a great idea for backup.  Peer to Peer backup really puts you in control of your data backup and [...]

Is anyone really in the Quicken Financial Life for Mac Beta program?

9, Dec 2008

Ok, its been months… I’m kind of bummed.  I signed up for the Quicken Financial Life for Mac beta program back in February of 2008, shortly after AppleInsider’s first coverage of the product.  While I’ve waited patiently and while I’ve signed up on the their beta signup for several time over the months that followed, [...]

New MacBook Pro has arrived

26, Nov 2008

One of the perks at my full-time employeer is the ability to do an employee computer purchase during the year.  With just 15% down, the company will finance the rest of a computer and payroll deduct the remaining amount from your paycheck.  In addition, they usually get pretty decent discount because of quantity with the [...]

Parallels Desktop 4.0 resolution – a.k.a. starting over

26, Nov 2008

Well, after a week of issues with the Parallels Desktop 4.0 upgrade, I trashed my VM that I have lovingly used for the past year and I have started over with a fresh import from the Virutal PC VHD file I keep on hand.  See, here is my history with Windows virtualization on the Mac:  [...]

Update shortages

7, Oct 2008

Sorry for the update shortages.  I have had a tough week with the death of a great-aunt last week.  I hope to be back online posting daily from here on out.

Slow updates

3, Sep 2008

I apologize for slow updates on this blog.  I feel like I got a false start on it and then left it hanging for a couple weeks.  During that time, I’ve had some personal things going on that have taken much of my attention, but I’m going to be trying hard to post and keep [...]

USAA – the model of customer service

20, Aug 2008

In light of HP’s crap support yesterday, today I thought I’d relay something more positive towards a company I admire. This time its not Apple. Its USAA – the United States Automobile Association. USAA is a bank/insurance/financial company which is a member’s only corporation serving active and former members of the armed forces and their [...]

New blog

4, Aug 2008

Hi.  My name is Philip.  I’m a blogger-wannabe.  My wife and I have been maintaining a personal blog since we found out she was pregnant in March of 2006.  I’ve enjoyed the process of blogging and I’ve wanted to blog on other topics that most of the family wouldn’t really care to read, so our [...]


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