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Registerfly

So, we now have control of opdahls.com again. Thanks to Registerfly and Kevin Medina we lost control for several months. There’s not much to say except to give a hearty UFF DA! and get on with life. Interested parties can read more at the Wikipedia article.
BTW, we now own opdahls.net and theopdahls.com. Anyone interested? :-)

Monday, August 13th, 2007

Karmic Damage

This e-mail was just wrong on so many levels that I saved it and am posting it here for everyone to laugh at and enjoy. The names have not been changed to protect the innocent, and although I have considered the karmic effect of putting all of these harvestable addresses here, my assumption is that […]

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

More pain…

I own MSFT as an investment, so some would say I am at cross-purposes with this post, but one has to wonder at some of the moronic things happening in Redmond. Like this…
Today Jan and I decided that (once again) we would input all of our investment data, etc., etc., into the PC and get […]

Monday, August 14th, 2006

Time for a revolution…

(An episode where Peter screams out loud at stupidity in the Japanese service industry…)
I’m a businessman, and businessmen (Or businesswomen, businesspeople, drunken monkeys, or lobotomized fleas for that matter…) will tell you that in order to win or keep business, you do things to make your customers’ lives easier. Japan is reknowned the world over […]

Monday, August 14th, 2006

United Airlines Red Carpet Lounge at LAX (International Terminal)

Why is it that in the United States one sometimes still cannot get a WiFi link at an airline lounge? It’s bad enough that we have to pay for them most of the time (Admitedly this is also true in Europe. There are also enlightened airlines, such as Continental, that make the service free.), but […]

Sunday, March 5th, 2006

Wall Outlets

It is fine to have the electrical outlet at one’s house or work under the desk, yet I think that all of us who move notebook computers around would agree that having one on the desk surface or on the wall above the desk makes it easier to connect and disconnect when necessary.
It is poor […]

Sunday, March 5th, 2006

Ridiculousness

This is the first of what I have unambiguously called “Ridiculous Things.” It will be a blathering (As opposed to blistering…) attack on all things ridiculous that one finds in the course of living one’s life. An entry could range from the prosaic (It’s ridiculous that the plastic bags in cereal boxes are so damn […]

Sunday, March 5th, 2006