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1 Billion Spammers Served | Project Honey Pot

I joined project Honey Pot quite awhile ago.  Project Honey Pot is a community of tens of thousands of web and email administrators from more than 170 countries around the world who are working together to track online fraud and abuse. The Project has been online since 2004 and each day receives millions of [...]

Review – “Line Notes” by Thank You 5

Paper pushing and theatre productions seem to go hand in hand. There are myriads of things that go into a production, everything from audition forms and cast lists to sign-in sheets and line notes.  As a relative novice to theatre and a seasoned professional in the software industry I began a search to find a [...]

Why I CAN’T Keep My Business Local

For those of you that do not know, I live outside a small Washington town in northern Steven’s Country called Colville.   The town is large enough to have our Super WalMat as a very nice compliment of small businesses.   To support our local economy I try to buy as much as I can locally.  [...]

545 People

The article that your will find below was emailed to me.  I’m not sure when it was published but there is some interesting truth in what Charlie Reese discusses.  These 545 people create problems that they then need to find creative ways to solve.  Most of the creativity as of late is to spend [...]

Wine Making Journey – First the Equipment

For a new wine maker or in my case for my jump back into the hobby in the late fall when hand picked fruit is not readily available, I would recommend that you try a wine kit.   There are a lot of these out there from various manufacturers.   They contain virtually everything (except equipment [...]

Renewed my Wine Making…

Back in the mid to late 1990’s I used to be a wine maker.  I liked this pretty minor foray into chemistry that produced an end result that I could drink… well at least I thought I could.  (Many of those earlier batches were less than desirable.) 
Home wine making has really changed very little [...]

Made in the USA

I had a co-worker send me an email the other day that was about purchasing American made products.   It was actually one of those emails that made me go… hmmmm….
When purchasing Made in the USA I am one of those that has this preconceived notion that whatever the item is will be more expensive.  After [...]

Just How Much is a BILLION

Just How Much is a BILLION

I received an email from a business associated that had some of these neat little tidbits below… All it said is that it was from an advertising firm.   If you happen to know or have a link to the original source please let me know.
Since our current economic condition here in the USA has [...]

Postal Rates Rise - Ideas to Curb the Increases

Postal Rates Rise – Ideas to Curb the Increases

Mark your calendars for May 11th.  We are going to get another postal rate increase.  Your .42 cent stamp for a first class letter is going to go up to .44 cents.  Some of the SPIN being placed on the increase is that it is only $3.00 per year for the average household and [...]

Spokane Civic Theatre - State Competition

Spokane Civic Theatre – State Competition

  Local community theatre in Spokane is alive!  My wife and I have been doing a little volunteer work at the Spokane Civic Theatre this year and recently had an opportunity to watch a dress rehearsal of the competition version of the production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.  So what is a competition [...]