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Monthly Archives: July 2008

Morning Show: Post Hurricane Dolly Drive

This morning, I did a show recounting what I witnessed in the aftermath of Hurricane Dolly while driving to work. Listen in.

Hurricane Dolly 6:20 pm Madero, Tx

Hurricane Dolly 6:20 pm Madero, Tx

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The winds have intensified and the rain has increased. We are OK. The worst of the storm is getting closer.

Hurricane Dolly: Stong gusts, but not the worst

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Visit to South Padre Island

beach 025

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Today we took a spur of the moment trip to South Padre Island, Texas. Originally, we were just going to cruise around to get out of the house. As we got closer to the beach, it just seemed like taking a dip was the best course. I stopped and got the [...]

What's Your Schtick?

Lately, I have been checking out services to which I subscribe. There are some things like Blog Talk Radio, blogs, podcasts, tv shows, radio shows, and other things. It clicked that everybody has their own schtick. The people to whom I subscribe will be into health, fitness, finance, politics, family, or some other special topic. [...]

Getting Back On The Air With Blog Talk Radio

I have been playing around with getting back on Blog Talk Radio. I’m doing a series of shows this week to kind of get myself in the groove. Formerly, I did 30 minute shows during my morning commute. My drive is much shorter now, so I am only doing 15 minute shows. Topics will include [...]

I'm Back Online With Cricket

We finally have broadband at home again. Yesterday, I purchased a Cricket Broadband modem on the way home, yesterday. It works on CDMA. I don’t know if it’s EVDO, but it got a high download speed over 900 kbps. That’s enough for me.
Just to recap my broadband situation, my family and I moved to an [...]

Outsourcing Changes That Benefit You

Two outsourcing companies have recently made changes that may benefit those of us who are using virtual Personal Assistants. BPOVIA is a Business Process Outsourcing company based in China that also provides Virtual Personal Assistants. GetFriday is a Virtual Personal Assistant company based in India.
Not too long ago, BPOVIA announced that they are now providing [...]

4th of July

The Renegades: July 4, 2008

Originally uploaded by shainelee.

Yesterday was an interesting day for me. It started at 5:30 AM. I met with The Renegades, a barbecue competition team headed by Texas State Representative Ryan Guillen. We arrived and started getting things ready for Texas Cook ‘Em in Edinburg, Tx. There was a large number of [...]

Microsoft Office OneNote Versus Evernote

In this post, I will compare Microsoft’s OneNote with Evernote. Under normal circumstances, I would be too poor to compare Microsoft Office OneNote to Evernote. Given the low startup cost of Evernote, FREE, I would have started with it and kept using it. I have been able to get a copy of Microsoft Office OneNote [...]