What's Noo?
A blog for noobies by Patric Welch, techie and all around fun guy.
Here is this week's roundup of Twitter highlights posted from my Twitter account: I have tried 5 times to type ACN in a cell in Microsoft Excel and 5 for 5 it has changed it to CAN. Auto-correct FAIL. 30-day iLearningGlobal Challenge. Be a product of the product. One video per day. Watching: Sandy Botkin-The Effects of Taxes-Documentation Why is it when I ask for something "ASAP" in an email I feel like a jerk but when I change it to "as soon as possible" written out, I'm ok? My wife just finished making my 6 year old's Halloween costume.… Continue reading...
Whenever I give a presentation to a group of people, I open it up for questions at the end. This usually leads to some interesting questions. It also tells me what topics people are interested in that I might want to cover in future presentations. One question that always comes up is the one about social networking, or social media. It usually comes in one of the following flavors: "What is this Twitter thing?" "My daughter told me to get on Facebook. It seems like a big waste of time to me. Is it worth the trouble?" "Who cares what… Continue reading...
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I recently signed up for a 14-day free trial of a financial service called Mvelopes. I won't get into the details of what the service does because that's not what I want to talk about in this blog post. Instead, I want to talk about what happened when I decided not to continue with the service after the free trial. In other words, when I went to cancel the service. It took a bit of digging on the web site, but I eventually found this under the Support option: In order to cancel your free trial or to change your… Continue reading...
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People complain about spam all of the time. But not me. Between Gmail and Google Apps I get very little spam. And the spam that I do get is nicely tucked away in a special spam folder that I need only check about once per week. But guess what showed up on my mobile phone today? Cash in your hand! Get $1500 wired to your Bank! Faster, Cheaper - Go to: http://www.UScashDepot.com Promo Code: ***** Quit? reply STOP Grrrrrreeeeeat Now I'm not sure if the "reply STOP" directive in this text message is legit or just another way to tell… Continue reading...
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Here is this week's roundup of Twitter highlights posted from my Twitter account: Salt Lake City airport security confiscated liquid from my shaving kit & rescanned luggage. Just realized they kept entire shaving kit. FAIL 30-day iLearningGlobal Challenge. Be a product of the product. One video per day. Watching: Sandy Botkin - Series 1 Part 1 Intro Just ordered the Amazon Kindle in preparation for an upcoming Noobie giveaway! Tax Extension Deadline is coming up on October 15th. Got your copy of TurboTax? http://ow.ly/tups I just strained a muscle in my neck and now it hurts to look to my… Continue reading...
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