Colorado Minimum Wage Success

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I’m a 40-year old(ish) guy living the suburbs in the middle of the United States. My whole life I’ve heard the debate. Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do. A living wage helps eliminate poverty, and so on. On the other side a single argument. Raising the minimum wage will cause business … Read more

Investing Advice Click Bait

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What I’m really supposed to be working on is a series of articles on dividend stocks since dividend stocks power the core of my non-retirement portfolio investing. But, I have three monitors and I need something to be on all of them in order for my brain to be satisfied, and one of them has … Read more

Pay Ranges On Colorado Job Postings

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I live in Colorado. I have a Denver-based freelance writing business that does freelance writing in Colorado in person, and clients all over the world online. But, I end up looking at job postings from time to time, because I’m that guy. Someday, I’ll find something amazing and they’ll want me to, and then my … Read more

Mimo App Review

Learn to program with the Mimo app While purusing the App Store, I came across an interesting app called Mimo. Mimo is a learn to program app. I couldn’t resist, so here is a Mimo app review. Mimo Coding App Review Mimo is a learn to code app available on both the iOS App Store, … Read more

Windows Search Indexing and SSD

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I haven’t really bothered to put down a permanent blog post, or anything, but I have spent the last few months fuming on Twitter about the sluggishness of my PC. At different points I have blamed either the Runtime Broker process, or the Windows Search Indexer. Sluggish PC Bogging Down Workflow My computer is just … Read more

Facebook Gets Redirected From WordPress Sharing

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Man, tricky computer problems are both what makes being a computer guy fun, and also what makes it so frustrating. Today’s issue — well, today’s and yesterday’s issue– was a tricky bug where when I tried to share a post from my WordPress blog to Facebook, it was giving me a 404 File Not Found … Read more

Are Refurbished Roombas A Good Deal Or A Scam?

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I am a big fan of Woot. Like many others, I like their deal-of-the-day and follow it on a pretty regular basis. Refurbished Roombas are very common on the site. Refurbished Roombas on Woot In case you aren’t familiar with it, Woot.net offers deals every day. When deals are sold out, it is gone. Sometimes … Read more

Ebates Bought Out By Rakuten

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Rakuten has a bizarre corporate branding strategy. In 2010, Rakuten bought buy.com. No bit deal there. Companies buy other companies all the time. But, then it did something truly strange. It rebranded buy.com to rakuten.com and in the process destroyed both a 3-letter .com domain name, and eventually, caused itself to spend millions of dollars … Read more

Altitude Versus Cable and Satellite

Update: It’s August 2020 and there is no solution in sight. I guess if you really cared you would switch to Direct TV who recently made a deal and now shows Altitude. This, however, is Comcast’s point. They really are not worried about losing a significant number of subscribers. This is putting your money where … Read more

What If…

What if I forgot all about this blog for too long? What if I wanted to bring it back? I’ll need some content… I’ll need some online marketing… I should document it as a case study…   Coming soon.