I signed up for Allstate’s Drivewise program a couple month ago when I heard about it. I started using the Drivewise phone app on my iPhone and I thought it was pretty cool. You can get a discount on your car insurance just by installing the app and driving within […]
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Typically the serial number on your computer doesn’t do you much good. It’s not something you memorize and it’s on the box if you ever need it. But what happens after you’ve thrown the box away and the little numbers on the bottom are either too small or worn already […]
Way back in 2009, I found a website. It wasn’t just a website, it was an event. The page hosted a culture, an excitement and a need that I was drawn to. In 2009 I found the Mario Marathon. Mario Marathon plays to benefit Child’s Play Charity. This idea set […]
Reddit is such a diverse and multi-talents community that you can find absolutely anything you could ever imagine there. I’ve been creeping around the website more and more recently and finding out how much valuable information is contained if you just look in the right places. Recently something else caught […]
It’s officially spring and everyone, including Stacy, is fully engaged in their spring cleaning activities. Stacy has an older computer, it runs a little bit slow and is very unorganized, so she came to me for help. Stacy asked, “Devon, I am cleaning everything else right now, how can I […]
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, passed by Congress in 2009, is providing $7.2 billion to expand access to broadband services in the United States. The South Dakota Bureau of Information & Telecommunications or BIT, has received $5,729,415 of that to help fund their Broadband Data and Development project. This […]
Not only was my last post, My Impossible List, inspired by Thomas Frank, but this post also, come as a result of his latest announcement on CollegeInfoGeek. Frank has partnered with Adobe and is giving away an iPad and a Kindle Touch. He has a very interesting contest for these […]
Just like everyone else, I’ve had a group of friends in college and we all like to play games. As more people started graduating, moving away and whatnot, we all eventually just started using a voice chat server as our means of getting together. Everyone jumps on the Mumble server […]
A while back Google implemented a mildly annoying extra ad at the top of it’s search results called the Buzzdock. This will aggregate results that it thinks you want to see from Yahoo, YouTube, Twitter, Amazon, eBay and a whole bunch more, other places. Well I finally got fed up with it, […]
As an IT sort of person, I am sometimes required to sign up for multiple free trials of software to try them out and give my recommendation as to which program we should purchase for the company. Along with signing up for these free trials come many unwelcomed, impersonal and […]
Today I was tasked with writing a backup script for our new MySQL Server. I’m a scripter/programmer by absolutely no means but I was kind of proud of this so I thought I would share. This particular script lists the databases and for each one, dumps it, appends the date […]