Archive for January, 2009
Fresh Coons – 834-8617
In: Food
31 Jan 2009Great story over at Detroit Blog about Glemie Dell Beasley, a 69-year-old blues musician in Detroit who offers fresh killed coons ready for eating.
“You soak him in vinegar and water, soak it four, five hours, and that get the wild game taste out of it. After that you cut him up just like you [...]
IT Dinner: “Red”
In: Food
30 Jan 2009January 23, 2009
Roan’s house
The Menu:
Red wine
Minestrone soup
Broiled monkfish with red sauce
Oven roasted red potatoes
Couer de creme with cherries
Pictures!
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Amazon Associates Fun
In: Geek Finds
29 Jan 2009Ok, I’m having too much fun with our Amazon Associates account. I’ve created an aStore – a customized store front within Amazon for us. For now it’s called simply Zing Geeks Store and anything purchased on it kicks a small percentage back to Zingnet. I’ve started it up with just two categories – Electronics and [...]
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Light & Design
In: Good Stuff| Improvements
29 Jan 2009We needed a desk light. And since this is the age of frugality we did not buy the pair of designer LED desk lamps for $300. I for one think the $6.48 clamp on lights and 6 foot tripp-lite power strip look mighty fine. We’ve gotten more compliments on our lamp design in the last [...]
Skype Usefulness – Take 2
In: Geek Finds| Review
28 Jan 2009Another example of Skype usefulness within the enterprise environment… Today our Deli Chocolate Lady, Duff, called IT wondering if we could install Skype on a computer for her to use, say in the next 20 minutes? We have a reputation for fast response so this was a good challenge. What was more interesting was that [...]
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Peak by Chip Conley
In: Books
26 Jan 2009I’m reading Peak by Chip Conley and came across the following quote that I’m moved to post, not because it is inspiring, though the book is, but because it’s gross. And that’s fun!
He came from the University of Georgia seven years ago because he believed Genentech could help him answer a burning question: What is [...]
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Leopard Upgrade Tip
In: techtip
25 Jan 2009I’ve upgraded a couple few different machines now from 10.4 to 10.5, Leopard, and have noticed something: With an in-place upgrade, Leopard hates when your hard drive is named something other than ‘Macintosh HD.’ The problem that manifests is after successfully installing Leopard you’re not able to log in; credentials are accepted but a blue [...]
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An Approach to Projects
In: Improvements
23 Jan 2009We’ve adopted the Action Priority Matrix in our approach to projects, measuring impact against effort. Tom at Mail Order found it, I think from MindTools, showed it to Elph; Elph shared it with us and other heads at ZingNet; now M&G teaches it in their class. It’s a simple diagramming technique that helps you choose [...]
Amazon Remembers via iPhone
In: Geek Finds
21 Jan 2009The Amazon app for the iPhone includes a pretty ingenious component called “Remembers”: Take a photo of a product that you want more info about, wait a few minutes for it to process and voila, you get the corresponding product page on Amazon.com. It worked perfectly for the three products I tested: a book cover, a [...]
Reverse Image Search Tool
In: Geek Finds
21 Jan 2009Elph emailed us yesterday about TinEye. Here’s the skinny:
TinEye is a handy reverse image search engine. If finds where on the web an image comes from. You can use it to find where a photo of yours appears elsewhere, to find a higher res version of an image, or to locate the origins of a [...]
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