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Shady computer repair

Being in the technology consulting business I've pretty much heard it all : 'the last guy that was here charged an arm and a leg' or 'he was here for 4 hours, put his arms in the air and said he couldn't fix the problem billed me and left'. This story in Orlando Sentinel is probably the best one yet though.

The tech takes the machine, she never hears from him again and the company offers her a discount for her next service call! Not as good as the Geek Squad guy filming the lady taking a shower but still pretty damn good!

Link: That's not just geeky -- it's plain wrong -- OrlandoSentinel.com.

Updating

I used to blog all the time, but for whatever reason I stopped some time ago. Fast forward to the present and I've paid for a year of Typepad and posted twice. I'm going to start making an effort to post at least once a week here to update people on my life - its good to talk to yourself.

I got into a car accident on Monday after someone ran a red light and hit the driver side of my new Camry. It sucks but I do have to say that out of this whole thing I have learned what a great company Progressive is to deal with. From the start it has been nothing short of the white glove treatment. They towed the car, got an estimate, and gave me a rental car right then and there. I haven't had to do anything (and from what I understand won't have to do anything) until I pickup my repaired car on Monday.

Business has been going good lately. I've hired a new employee to take on most of the residential work while I focus on the commercial business. This has been my biggest year yet in terms of business, and it's only getting bigger. Now if I can just find time to launch some of these web projects and get some of that passive income coming in.

Bankrupt

I'm a big fan of a blog written by a New York based venture capitalist. He posted on a subject that really hit home for me : filing for email bankruptcy.

I get probably around 50-75 email messages a day. About 60 perecent is from people that would like a immediate response, 20 percent I delete immediatly, and the other 20 percent is for my records or requires that I keep it.

I have had a Blackberry for a few years now and before that I had a Treo. I understand the value of being able to sort and process this data all day long. Since the device syncs over the air I don't need to spend time at the end of the day sorting through a pile of email as I can typically handle it as it comes in. However the other day I was staring at my inbox and I was sitting on thousands of messages that I hadn't touched in years in my Inbox.

I filed for email bankruptcy and moved them all out of my Inbox starting fresh. If you have sent me something that I haven't responded to please resend it - I'm starting over.

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