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Problem accessing secure pages and other web pages on amazon newegg and more

Eric — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 06:07:09 +0000

For a week or two (I’m pretty sure this started before Hurricane Irene) I’ve been having trouble accessing secure pages on amazon.com. I can’t see my past orders, reach my Amazon Cloud Drive, or now even place a new order. I discovered today that I can’t get the newegg.com site to work either — so [...]

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Problem accessing secure pages and other web pages on amazon newegg and more

Amazon’s New Look

Eric — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 14:30:34 +0000

Amazon showed me a new clean look today… Nice design with lots of white. here’s a product page:Update: September 4, 2011 Now amazon has gone back to looking how it used to. (But I still can’t access my amazon account!!!). I did find this interesting article on the evolution of the amazon add to shopping cart button. Post [...]

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Amazon’s New Look

Problem accessing secure pages and other web pages on amazon newegg and more

Hex Paper Games of the 1980′s

Eric — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 18:39:24 +0000

Oh how I loved these games! Cheap little things in plastic bags with a sheet of paper and little cardboard square pieces and a complicated rulebook set in the tiniest type font available. And then it all led into Star Fleet Battles. But it started with simple games like OGRE and Asteroid Zero Four. I [...]

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Hex Paper Games of the 1980′s

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APC UPS Fails When The Battery Is Dead

Eric — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 04:30:38 +0000

Friday night I was getting ready to go out to see Marshall Tucker and Kansas at a free concert in Eisenhower Park. I was trying to figure out what to bring with me since it was supposed to be thunderstorms… and the lights all go out. So now the only light in my room is [...]

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APC UPS Fails When The Battery Is Dead

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OCR is super powerful now — and free

Eric — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 19:27:24 +0000

I found a printout of a webpage that is long since gone (and not archived at http://www.archive.org — that would have been too easy). So what to do? Scan it in and use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. Um, but I don’t have any software like that and I’d rather not buy any. A quick [...]

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Have a Happy Star Trek 4th of July — Way Too Funny!

Eric — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 04:01:52 +0000

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Why I hate WordPress – Part 9,347

Eric — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 01:15:31 +0000

Seriously, http://wordpress.org/news/2011/06/passwords-reset/ And to crap on top of it, I actually do have W3 Total Cache installed and did update it just the other day. However, it only updated “because it’s there” — I don’t actually use it. I just never happened to delete it after I deactivated it. I guess I was hoping I’d [...]

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Why I hate WordPress – Part 9,347

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Phone Message Scams

Eric — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 03:55:09 +0000

I turn on my cell phone about once or twice a month — I only use it when necessary — so I was surprised that there was a message on it. It was something about being able to take care of the problem I had called about and that the rep would be able to [...]

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How To Include Amazon Text and Image (Enhanced Display) Affiliate Links In WordPress – Part 2

Eric — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 03:37:11 +0000

Feh. As per my previous post on inserting iframe tags in the TinyMCE editor in WordPress for amazon affiliate links and youtube videos, this is something a user needs to be able to do without having the editor delete them as soon as you switch into WYSIWYG mode. This plugin — Amazon Widgets Shortcodes — [...]

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How To Include Amazon Text and Image (Enhanced Display) Affiliate Links In WordPress – Part 2

Replacing Charlie Sheen on Two and a Half Men

Eric — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 17:45:54 +0000

There’s all this talk about replacing Charlie Sheen on Two and a Half Men like it’s so difficult. However, it is amazing how simple things are to fix with… WRITING. I haven’t seen the most recent season of the show, but it seems that this type of thing ought to work: Charlie dies (no big [...]

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