Last week I loaded the April 3 Security Update from Microsoft onto my work computer. http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/update/bulletins/200704OOB.mspx This update was marked as Critical and was released early just to get it in circulation. Unfortunately it created a .dll conflict error. RTHDCPL.EXE – Illegal System DLL Relocation The system DLL user32.dll was relocated in memory. The application…
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How Subway Lost It’s Way
Subway, the sandwich shop, is the largest franchise by store count. I believe McDonalds is larger by revenue, but I digress. Back in my college days in 2008, Subway was my go to when the cafeteria food was bad. The sandwich was just that a sandwich, the cost was $5 as the 5-dollar footlong was…
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My first hotel experience in Lapu Lapu City was the Crown Regency Hotel. I will be comparing it, in part, with my visit last year. The Crown Regency is an older hotel along a main road in Lapu Lapu City. Per the elevator buttons, it has ten floors. It has a small swimming pool and…
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I am overseas for the next two months. In honor of the occasion, I will randomly be presenting reviews of stuff that I experienced. My goal is to inform people about what I’m up to without angering my family or others that think they know what’s best for my life. First up, is The Big…
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Attached are a few photos of the Occupy Sacramento protest. This group is conveniently located across from my employer so I get to see them in action. The way this protest works is that a handful of people arrive each morning and set-up their operation. In the early afternoon, a trickle of people begins to…
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This photo is from a make-shift memorial created after the terror attacks on September 11, 2001 near Dunsmuir, CA. This email was circulated in the wake of the 9-11 attacks. What a difference a Day makes…. On Monday we emailed jokes. On Tuesday we did not. On Monday we thought that we were secure. On…
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Many media stories this week have reported that HP is planning to sell their PC division. Their excuse is that sales are sluggish and the computer division has a low profit margin. This is not the real reason. Clearly their bean-counters realize that Obama-care and promises of higher taxes will kill the PC division so…
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The California Republican Party is going through the process of looking at the Party Platform. This ritual—which occurs every four years—has seen a marked change from previous meetings of the Platform Committee. This year, the “moderates” briefly succeeded in stripping all references to social issues from the platform. Some were subsequently re-inserted in generic ways…
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In response to being booted from the CRA, Karen England and company have embarked on a venture to establish a competing organization. They are the Conservative Republicans of California. http://calconservatives.com/ I missed where the rule is that any splinter group from the CRA must use the letters “CCR”. In 1989, it was the California Congress…
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A few days ago I went to Border’s Books to browse their remaining inventory during their going out of business sale. I had a feeling that sections would be somewhat disorganized. The attached photo is one such example. Since there were several pre-season football games on the TV at the time of my visit, I…
