Sunday, October 11, 2015 was San Diego British Car Day so we decided to brave the 100 degree heat and head over to the Embarcadero Marina Park North adjacent to Seaport Village to check out my friend Aaron’s Austin-Healey Sprite and take a few snapshots of the other British car classics.
For this round of photos I experimented with several filters and custom actions in Photoshop just for fun. Check ’em out!
The U.S. Sand Sculpting competition exhibited Sep 4 – Sep 7, 2015 at the “B” Street Pier in San Diego. Here are the pics!
I’m not usually a bird person but I thought these shots of local orioles in San Diego feeding from our hummingbird feeder were worthy of posting. Enjoy!
August 3rd through August 7th, 2015 is San Diego Coworking Week where local San Diego Coworking Spaces open their doors to the public and allow non-members to work from their space for the day. This is a great opportunity to check out their spaces and meet others.
Here are several ideas you can implement to make the most of each day:
Remember, it’s not necessarily who you meet, it may be who they know. They may just make that friendly introduction to your next important contact. We all know at least 100 people. They do too.
Rinse and repeat each day and cross pollinate from each location and the connections you’ve met.
And hey, if you’re just not into this sorta thing, then bring your headphones. It’s the unwritten coworking rule – don’t talk to me, I’m busy.
Here’s San Diego Coworking Week’s 2015 schedule:
Monday, Aug 3rd – Cyber Hive, Downtown
Tuesday, Aug 4th – DeskHub, Little Italy
Wednesday, Aug 5th – Co-Merge, Downtown
Thursday, Aug 6th – Hera Hub, all locations
Friday, Aug 7th – 3rdSpace, University Heights and Ansir Innovation Center, Kearny Mesa
Looking for more coworking spaces? Check out the full list of San Diego Coworking spaces on SDTechScene.org.
I’ve cut the cord for years. Netflix, Redbox, Amazon and the Internet have replaced traditional cable. But Time Warner has been relentless in sending their advertisements to sign up for their cable TV. Last time I watched a movie on cable from our hotel, it was just weird. The movie was filled with interrupting commercials. Who does that? Cable TV. They charge to watch then force you to watch ads. No thanks.
Cut your cord. Leave cable behind.
Here’s the link to opt out. Simple, 30 second form and you’re done. No more annoying ads. http://www.timewarnercable.com/en/our-company/legal/privacy-policy/cpni-opt-out-form.html
AT&T has been sending me relentless amounts of AT&T U-verse letters in the mail without any opt-out addresses to respond to. After a quick search on the Interwebs, I found this post on how to opt out of AT&T’s mailers.
Although the post had some great information I still don’t think it should be this hard to opt-out.
Please comment below if you know a better way to opt out. In the meantime here’s a few different methods from their post if you are a current AT&T customer:
If you are a not a AT&T customer:
Determined to be opt out, I emailed AT&T at their privacy policy email asking them how would be the best way to remove an address from their ad campaign. Surprisingly, I received a quick response from them in about 25 minutes. Their email said:
Thank you for writing the AT&T Privacy Policy Mailbox. Please provide your wireless telephone number and mailing address and we will process your request.
While we will strive to honor your request, you may receive an occasional mailing. To the extent that you receive unwanted U.S. Mail from any source, it is hoped you can make it available to a paper recycling program.
Sincerely,
AT&T Privacy Policy Inbox Manager
I promptly replied back with the respective information and received another email the next day confirming the removal:
Thank you for providing the requested information. Your request for Do-Not-Mail has been submitted for AT&T. Please allow up to 30 business days for the process to complete.
Sincerely,
AT&T Privacy Policy Inbox Manager
Kudos to AT&T for having a process to get names and addresses removed from their mail list, but seriously it shouldn’t be this difficult. In this day and age of automation this process should be much much easier.
As most people already know, Gawker’s commenting accounts were compromised recently resulting in some Twitter accounts to be hacked with tweets to acai spam websites. Fun times for those that got hacked, the developers who get to work overtime fixing everything and everyone else that has to deal with changing their passwords and the rest of the hassle.
In addition to all this, I received an email from hint.io with a similar message. Not knowing if I even have a gawker account or for that matter now, a hint.io account I had to search for what the heck hint.io is too. Fortunately, Ruth Suehle did the legwork and posted her thoughts on hint.io’s email blast.
Although hint.io’s email may be legit, it’s definitely not cool to be opportunistic in light of such events. Here’s two things I would have done differently:
1) Don’t use tracking links in your email for this purpose. I can’t tell what the true link is and looks very spammy.
2) Explain yourself better. We get enough phishers and spammers in addition to all the other emails we get everyday. You only compound the issue.
Hopefully they’ll get it right next time (by not emailing).
Creating events in Outlook calendar works fine on my Dell laptop. Editing the event after posting it the first time creates a huge bug which I blamed MS Outlook for the last couple of years. Basically Outlook automatically posts the same event recurring every day for an infinite amount of time. THIS DROVE ME NUTS! But apparently not enough to simply Google it and find the solution. I finally found it and apparently it was Dell all along to blame. Grrrr…
Here’s the solution posted on Egghead Cafe. If you own a Dell and have Outlook 2003, you probably have this problem. Simply uninstall “outlookaddinsetup” from your programs list and you’re good to go. Special thanks to Google Suggest which provides key terms you may not ordinarily think of and Graeme who took the time and found a fix for Outlook’s recurrence problem.
