gilstrac

I recently bought tickets using ticketmaster.  It wasn't my first time I have used ticketmaster.  I was just taken back that 20% of my payment was going to them.  How can I avoid paying this extra fee?  Well I looked around and short of going to the box office, I couldn't. What am I missing? Any ideas?

I can't comprehend this.  I grew up in a red state so most liberal ideas are hard for me to relate to but this stuff blows my mind. We are not perfect.  Our government spies on us, tortures prisoners and etc but when it comes to light scape-goats are found and government has to regroup and find other ways to meet their ends.  In other countries, you just have to take it and take it. Today, I remember how proud and thankful I was born in America. China to ban online impersonation accounts, enforce real-name registration | Reuters : 'via Blog this'

Larry Page Lays Out His Plan for Your Future | Wired Business | Wired.com : " “Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that’s somewhat correct,” Page said. “Companies are doing the same incremental thing that they did 50 years ago, 20 years ago. That’s not really what we need. Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change. ”" I agree with this wholeheartedly. gilstrac

This list should be based on how you use it. I am not going to go into coding, email or the rest.  I am covering some gaps I have noticed in my day to day use. I will lean toward cloud based storage, open source and cross platform tools but since these are gaps good choices may not be available. High end notepad Process Manager Maco Tool Regular Expression tester Clipboard Manager I will cover each or these in turn in following posts.

F# as a Unit Testing Language : I have been looking for a real world use for this language.  I like this idea.  I am going to have to pursue it.

Jellyfish Hints at Fix for Damaged Hearts - WSJ.com : This is pretty amazing.

Merchants Consider Credit Card Surcharges or Cash Discounts - NYTimes.com : I gave a discount for cash purchases for a while.  The customers complained constantly.  It was always the ones with credit cards.  I think most buying big tickets items with credit cards don't have the cash to buy them out right.  But I say for myself I would use the cash, not just for the savings, but I am more aware of my spending when I spend CASH.