It seemed like for years people from all over Twitter and Google Buzz, not to mention message board all over the internet were continually clamoring over Google Voice Invites. I’ve seen it all, from: paying for invites, begging for invites, threatening people for invites, bragging about who got their invite and who didn’t; but mainly I’ve seen almost everyone willing to PAY for Google Voice Invites. As of today I have one thing to say, “Keep your money!”

Yes, that’s right, you’ve heard me correctly, you can actually go straight to Google Voice and sign up without being pestered for an invite code, and roll right into the bright blue (red, orange, blue, green, red) future that is free VOIP phone calls over the internet. While you may have to do some finagling to get it to be 100% free and clear, like sign up ...

First of all I hope I don’t get sued over that title.

Second of all I’m going to be changing the layout of my page several times today, thanks to Google’s designer for the blogger I am able to make my own changes and I am going to constantly experiment until I find one that fits how I want the blog to feel. Don’t feel alienated at all by the changes, In fact take this as an invitation to let me know what changes you want and don’t want at the same time.

Sorry for the confusion, and enjoy the ride.

First of all I just want all of you to let me tell you that I am happy you all were so patient with me for the weekend (and a couple of days). When it comes to inconvenient timing my life is one of those that you can set your watch by . . . yes I know that makes no sense but I think you all can feel me on this one. I have done nearly everything this weekend from show up 2 hours away from my house at 4:30am (yes I woke up at 2am) and stand on my feet for a grand total of about 60 hours!

I’m normally all about being gung-ho about the National Guard, but this weekend took its toll on me hard core. All day on Friday I sat in a fox-hole shooting a rifle (and that was the high-light) and afterwards stood on ...

Logging into your computer this morning you no doubt saw Google’s new feature, and colorful background screen. While this is an AWESOME feature that I love, especially the feature where you can make your own background image appear on the Google page itself, I can’t help but think that this may be in response to “Bing” and their picture filled backgrounds; could this mean that Google is feeling threatened by Bing and decided to level the playing field by making their front page more “serene”?

It’s no secret that in our world of competition once one franchise does something, sooner or later other franchises follow suit with amazingly similar products, And while Google has made a name for themselves in more ways than one: being a spring board for individuals and businesses, paying people to display ads, making their own open source OS, and dropping hard core ...

I honestly think there should be a better way to perform IT Technician duties than there is right now. What I’m talking about is that most users, and I don’t need to start calling ages because it is all ages, seem to think that if it can’t be solved by trial and error then IT must be involved.  That situation is where you get people who call in every day because their:  send / receive is too slow, monitor is “jiggly”, can’t get to their hotmail account even after they’ve been told it’s blocked . . . numerous times . . . in official email. I do realize that it is my duty as someone who knows the “ins and outs” of the machines to take the time and educate them on the proper use of their computers and the proper use of IT, but most will not heed my word ...

Pretty soon here I’ll have my very first candidate to step into the ring on the “may causes” page (link at top). I’m not going to go too much into it right now but, This guy was the reason that I even decided that this endeavor would be a good idea, and let me tell you it feels good to be able to look in the email inbox and have emails of thanks for what I am going to do. I look forward to the day (hopefully sometime this week) that I put it up there and hope that word gets around enough to help this guy out.

Likewise I hope others step into the ring and allow me to utilize my site to help others. Remember that to submit yourself to this site please read my TOS and my blog from yesterday entailing just how this is ...

Aside from today being a slow trip through hell (I called it on my first blog post this morning) I have had some fun with some Android phones today. Luckily for me I have had my chance to take a look at, use, and get to love the HTC EVO phone. I don’t own one unfortunately, but I got to play around with it (a guy I work with let me mess around with it) and so far the screen on that thing is amazing. The other part of the day is where I got to show off my knowledge of Linux commands, as I don’t get to do that often until I get home, by using the android debug bridge to fix one of my coworkers phones. That coworker had saved necessary files for an app somewhere else on his SDCARD after playing around on his phone ...

No doubt you’ve heard of the SHREK collectors glasses being recalled. For simply using cadmium in the paint and potentially poisoning people for drinking from them. Is there nothing that we as a people won’t worry and cry about in this world. In the 50’s and before they used Uranium in their paint to create red paint and no one complained . . . in fact everyone was just fine. Before that we played on rusty jungle gyms and rode in cars without seatbelts, let our kids play with lawn darts and eat dirt. Not anymore, heaven forbid you look behind you and try to live in a world that was once at peace with itself instead of suing everyone at the drop of a hat. It’s the frivolous law suits that cause more and more companies to be nervous about anything, it’s the lawsuits that won’t ...