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chillin' with j-town: May 2010
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Straight to you from Santa Clara. West coast style. Saturday, May 29, 2010. Video stores are in trouble. Traditional brick and mortar video stores are toast. looks like Redbox and Netflix are taking over. See page 13 of Coinstar's quarterly results for a comparison of Q42008 vs Q42009. Http:/ www.coinstar.com/US/Webdocs/A5-1-16/$file/Q4EarningsCallSlidesUpdateREV022310.pdf. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Blogs to Check Out. Kari and Jason's Vagabond Report.
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chillin' with j-town: June 2010
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Straight to you from Santa Clara. West coast style. Tuesday, June 08, 2010. How to use alternate from addresses with Gmail on iPad or iPhone. Gmail has a neat feature that you can associate alternate from addresses with your account and then send as any of those addresses from the web interface. Unfortunately this feature is not available from the mobile web interface for iPhone or iPad. There is another way to do this using the Mail app, however. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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chillin' with j-town: August 2011
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Straight to you from Santa Clara. West coast style. Tuesday, August 23, 2011. Netflix Blu-ray vs. DVD confusion. I have Blu-ray enabled on my Netflix account, and have the option set to prefer Blu-ray discs, which is what I want 95% or more of the time. Recently, I was trying to get the DVD version of Rango. I went into the DVD queue and set the format to DVD, and was surprised that they sent me a Bluray. I proceeded to try again on another sub account and the same thing happened. For automatic Blu-ray m...
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chillin' with j-town: November 2009
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Straight to you from Santa Clara. West coast style. Tuesday, November 03, 2009. Well, it's November again and that means it's time for another election. This time it is all local to Cupertino. I voted a couple weeks back, as I am a permanent absentee. Let's go through the various issues:. The argument against this is that this is an unfair tax and that it will go up too quickly. The tax will go up a minimum of about $20 in 10 years. There is an exemption for seniors already in place that is carri...Perso...
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chillin' with j-town: November 2007
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Straight to you from Santa Clara. West coast style. Tuesday, November 20, 2007. Also, is it just me or is it really, really annoying that everyone seems to have forgotten about waiting until the day after Thanksgiving to start the Christmas music and decorations? In some cases, Christmas stuff was out even before Halloween. Saturday, November 10, 2007. Sunday, November 04, 2007. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Blogs to Check Out. Kari and Jason's Vagabond Report.
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chillin' with j-town: More on dollar coins and modernizing US currency
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Straight to you from Santa Clara. West coast style. Tuesday, February 16, 2010. More on dollar coins and modernizing US currency. Here's my latest toy:. Coin holder. It is from a Canadian company. apparently US and Canadian coins are about the same size. It makes paying with exact change and using dollar coins very convenient. Here's a video of it in action. With no shipping charges to encourage more coins to be introduced into circulation. Before. Since then I learned about the Coin Coalition. Due to th...
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chillin' with j-town: October 2008
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Straight to you from Santa Clara. West coast style. Wednesday, October 15, 2008. I've been a permanent absentee voter in California since the switch to electronic voting machines. given a paper trail for accountability and recount purposes I'm no longer opposed to electronic voting, but I just preferred the level of privacy and ease of referring to my sample ballot that the old method allowed. Http:/ ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/California 2008 ballot measures. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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chillin' with j-town: Netflix Blu-ray vs. DVD confusion
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Straight to you from Santa Clara. West coast style. Tuesday, August 23, 2011. Netflix Blu-ray vs. DVD confusion. I have Blu-ray enabled on my Netflix account, and have the option set to prefer Blu-ray discs, which is what I want 95% or more of the time. Recently, I was trying to get the DVD version of Rango. I went into the DVD queue and set the format to DVD, and was surprised that they sent me a Bluray. I proceeded to try again on another sub account and the same thing happened. For automatic Blu-ray m...
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chillin' with j-town: Video stores are in trouble
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Straight to you from Santa Clara. West coast style. Saturday, May 29, 2010. Video stores are in trouble. Traditional brick and mortar video stores are toast. looks like Redbox and Netflix are taking over. See page 13 of Coinstar's quarterly results for a comparison of Q42008 vs Q42009. Http:/ www.coinstar.com/US/Webdocs/A5-1-16/$file/Q4EarningsCallSlidesUpdateREV022310.pdf. A moment of silence for blockbuster, my former employer. 3:48 PM, May 31, 2010. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
