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Get Good Prices on Holiday Travel

November 9th, 2008 · No Comments

With jet fuel prices as high as they are, shopping for airplane tickets to visit the Melancon family this winter has been frustrating.  Since we started looking in October the prices have been out of reach and I was wondering if I could ever afford the trip.  Finally, this weekend the prices dropped and we […]

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Tags: Efficiency · family · the internets

Reason #425 to be Married: Improved Customer Service

July 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

Evan Wilder explains how to get through an automated phone system when the system claims the office is closed.

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Tags: How To · the internets

Chopin Announces Your Call But I Had No Idea

June 11th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I have a custom ring tone setup on my cell phone when my bride Amanda calls (all the rest of you get the sound of an old phone ringing). Yesterday at work I heard her calling but the phone was in the cabinet so I turned down the radio and got up to grab […]

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Tags: art · audio · music · the internets

The Daily Show Full Episodes Available Free on Hulu.com

June 10th, 2008 · 4 Comments

I don’t subscribe to cable television so I haven’t been able to watch The Daily Show in a long time at 11 pm. This all changed today … now I can watch full length high resolution episodes of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Hulu.com at any time I want. This […]

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Tags: entertainment · fun · the internets

Wake Up On Time with Wakerupper

March 2nd, 2008 · 2 Comments

Wakerupper is basically a service that calls a telephone exactly when you want with the message of your choosing. According to the company:

“Wakerupper is an experimental service that aims to make telephone alerting as easy and inexpensive as possible. In one easy step, on one simple web page, Wakerupper enables users in the United States and Canada to schedule telephone reminder calls.”

Today I got an email inviting me to be a beta tester for the servce (yay, right on time!) and it is working great. Details on how it works are below.

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Tags: Efficiency · technology · the internets

Wedding Location Search: The Lodge at Seneca Creek (with interactive photo)

February 29th, 2008 · 2 Comments

An interactive 360 degree photographic experience makes a huge difference when you’re trying to find a wedding location. I wish more venues had this kind of feature on web sites. Since they do not, I am happy to share with you this interactive 360+ degree image of the Lodge at Seneca Creek.
Update: this is not […]

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Tags: DC Life · Efficiency · photography · the internets · wedding