TECHNOLOGY: Free windoze utility to save ink and toner!

Sunday, May 15, 2011

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13845_3-20061950-58.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheCheapskate

MAY 12, 2011 6:00 AM PDT
Free Windows utility lowers your printing costs
by Rick Broida

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Tired of burning through pricey ink and toner cartridges? PretonSaver Home promises to cut these consumable costs by up to 70 percent. Best of all, it’s free. (Note: You can use the previous link to download the program, but click here to go to Preton’s site and register for the activation code.)

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Sounds like a great idea.

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FUN: On a children’s dance recital — observation #4

Sunday, May 15, 2011

OK, last one, (I think),

Here we have youngsters. Giving entertainment. Working “hard”. Doing what may or may not be their “best”.

They know that all their peers get up, jilly jack around, take a bow (in various forms), and get applause for their efforts.

There were at least three acts of “little kids” … …

(under 6 ish.)

(How do you estimate children’s ages? Saw ’em in half like trees?)

… … where no one, except me, applauded.

Shame on my fellow audience members. You “stole”. You took their effort and returned nothing to them.

Little kids.

What lesson does that teach?

Think if these folks in the audience were “promised” a pay raise and didn’t get it they would say “no big deal”.

Me, a fat old white guy injineer, was horrified. Where were these children’s parents and relatives encouraging them.

So like I crazy old fool, I applauded 75 times or so. Lost count. I left when my ride did. The “souvenir” and “refreshment” tables were closed when we left so maybe it was done.

I just felt bad for the three groups that got NO applause. Maybe I just dozed off, but I don’t think so.

Shame, shame, on those folks.

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FUN: Interesting use of a sequin dress

Sunday, May 15, 2011

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{Privacy Invoked} Went to bed in a sequin dress. Woke up like I put out with a cheese grater. Never again.

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I read this and for some reason it struck me funny.

After I stopped ROFL, I decided that this was worth memorializing. No idea why? But it just grabbed my attention. Sad really, but very funny.

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