Randomblings from Rich

It's just AMAZING what some people will stoop to in order to get something for nothing! Our local K-12 is having a fund raiser, in which they were selling pre-packaged pizza kits. They were supposed to deliver the items in a mass distribution on Day X. On Day X -2, they found that snow was predicted and sent home flyers saying that the distribution day was being moved back to Day Y due to the weather.
Along comes Day X, and they receive a telephone call from an unknown individual. This person claimed to have been shorted in her pizza distribution from her order when it was picked up earlier that day. The school explained that NO distribution was being done until Day Y, and the unidentified fraud-meister hung up the phone. Not content to be clueless, it seems this person feels the need to fraudulently claim she was short-changed by a fund-raising effort?! To get some free pizza-kits?! OY VEY!

This site:X10.com - Your Home Automation, Entertainment and Security Supersite! may be tacky, but it's the best place on the net to get X-10 related equipment, especially for beginners. They're always running specials, and they have some very fun toys. X-10 is a wired communication protocol that sends simple commands using normal house wiring. It allows you to put lamp switches anywhere you need them instead of just going with what was in the house when you moved in. They also sell wireless remote color cameras and motion detector switches. It's a fun place to shop!

The latest newsletter supported by LockerGnome (Chris Pirillo) is called the Lockergnome Tech Specialist. Click on this link to check it out. The resources are more oriented toward the technical support professional, or the technically oriented. Discussing things such as registry cleaners, how to use debug to figure out what video board is in your machine, and even a 'job of the day', this newsletter fills a hole in the coverage that Chris himself offers. Hey, the net is a vast place, isn't it nice to be able to let someone else find all the good stuff for free?

Newletters come and go on the Internet. In the past 10 years, I have been a subscriber of many of them. Of course, I never have time to read them all. The ones that I do read are over there on my sidebar once they've proven their staying power. One that I hope can prove its staying power is Mike's List. This is sort of a wacky look at life, more than a wacky look at the web, and it's a fun read. It's always interesting to see what floats the boats of others, and Mike certainly shares his opinions.

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