Archmaille

I was always a legos boy as a kid. I would seriously sit for hours every day building vehicles and space ships out of various lego parts that I had been collecting from garage sales over time. We never really had the money for lots and lots of legos, or the special versions with the cool pieces that you always see advertised on television. But what is great about them is that they’ve been around for so long that you can still find a few of them cheap. I always envied the kids with k’nex, or erector sets… like the kid on The Sand Lot… oh I wish I had those things as a kid, I think I turned out alright without them but it would of been fun to build with.

Now kids have Magnext though! Of all of the Building toys around Magnext definitely take a top slot! My first encounter with MagNext brand was in Michigan when I was visiting my wife’s family, her grandma had some MagNext toys… and lets just say I felt like a little kid again building structures out of these magnetically attachable pieces! They’re great because they have endless potential as they use magnets and steel balls you can add to, or expand your set with various other parts!

Ah, to be a kid again! At least I get to go through it all over again when my son is born!

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Everybody knows that in todays society you MUST be able to process credit cards in order to survive as a business! Even people like myself that don’t use credit cards still use plastic in one form or another. Even though I hate credit cards and refuse to use them myself I still almost NEVER use cash. I carry my debit card with me all the time, and when I need to pay for something guess what comes into play! When I get somewhere that requires cash only… most of the time I just leave there’s no point in me staying somewhere I can’t pay!

Online is even worse because you can’t really accept cash, checks are risky, and a lot of online purchases are quick decisions so if you can’t accept their form of payment you lose their business forever!

Something else to look at in these down times is how much working capital does your business have? Historically recessions are a great time to make a mint! That is if you’ve got the money to buy and hold onto things for the upturn. Buying land and homes in this time is amazing if you’ve got the money! Material prices are low, but if you don’t have the working capital to purchase them… well how are you going to survive with your business? That’s why a business loan from OnlineCheck.com is such a great opportunity for you!

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Are you feeling down on your looks? Many people all around the world are looking for ways or that magic fix for their looks. Unfortunately with all the products, and all of the creams that are sold in our drug stores none of them provide the uplift you need to look and feel your absolute best! My cousin has recently gotten into a tooth whitening business, and it’s funny to see his pallets of tooth colors because there really is only so far the human body can go on its own. No matter what without some sort of unnatural stimulus you can’t be your best… and that goes for many other body parts as well!

Cosmetic surgery is often the only way you can get to the best you possible! Many women, especially with age, begin to suffer from saggy or droopy breasts, a rather unattractive feature to anyone. That’s why you can get a cosmetic breast uplift that will make you as perky and free as when you were 20! Make your husbands jaw drop again, or get all the boys at the bar drooling over you with a cosmetic surgery breast uplift, because we know nature isn’t going to do it for you! Feel confident and proud to show off your new look after achieving the best you possible with MYA Cosmetic Surgery!

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When I think of designer rings there really is one place that comes to mind first and foremost. That’s because this particular company puts time, and energy into creating the most elegant, and and finely crafted rings possible. Tacori creates many of the most beautiful designer diamond rings around. Personally I’m not much of a rings person, I’ve never really worn them, so starting now just feels funny to me a lot of the times. Either way I can still recognize beauty when I see it. The quality and craftsmanship in Tacori rings is what separates them from the rest of the so called fine jewelers out there.

If I had the choice or the money for it I would of got a Tacori when I proposed to Rose. Yeah a lot of the times designer engagement rings are really over rated. Tacori on the other hand doesn’t just hike their prices up because it says Tacori on the tag, they do brilliant work that makes them stand out from the rest! If you’re looking to propose, or going to get something special for the one you love this year for Christmas stop by any authorized Tacori dealer, or pick your jewelry out online and have it delivered!

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Okay, so there has been a little bit of a fiasco with my computer (as I described briefly in my previous post about WordPress 2.7) that actually turned out to be not what I expected. My motherboard that I was using had issues… it had issues from the day I bought it, only noticed like 90 days afterwards when I went to start overclocking. I never got very far with overclocking because my stock CPU voltage that should of been running at 1.250 volts was running at 1.1 volts, and it took everything the motherboard had to just get it up to 1.2 so needless to say there never was much to be done on the overclocking front with that POS motherboard. I always left it at stock speed so that it could last until I could replace the mobo… that day never came. Last week I ran into a problem though, after taking my computer apart and cleaning everything I started getting BSODs every time I turned the computer on!

Finally after three days of this I got a hint into what was causing it (I was testing different things for a while, Windows had updated, and thought it might of been a software issue, but wasn’t able to get the computer to stay on long enough to test that theory out). I started getting messages on the USB bus running at the wrong voltage… so instantly I thought it had to be the motherboard. In the process of ordering a new motherboard, I figured a small upgrade couldn’t hurt so I also got an AMD Phenom 9850 since they’re close to $150 now, combined with an AMD 790GX motherboard I figured I’d have a pretty rock solid system… except since they new 9850 runs at 1066 RAM speeds I figured I’d upgrade that too so I got 8 gigs of 1066 RAM… to find out that with four sticks installed it runs at 800 speeds anyways.

Anyways, after I installed everything the extra power consumption was causing BSODs sooner… So the next place I thought might be the problem was my PSU. Kind of a long shot since PC Power and Cooling makes good products… but I do have one of the first generation 1KW PSUs that had the single 12v rail so maybe there was an issue with that. After visiting Best Buy to grab a 700w power supply (hoping it was enough power for my energy sucking computer) it STILL had BSODs ass soon as Windows started up… I pulled my computer apart again and just started looking everything over… I mean the only thing left is the hard drives… I considered pulling my main drive and reinstalling windows on another one… kept messing with things until I finally realized that my pump wasn’t running. Saddened and disheartened that I would have to use stock cooling for a while and figure something out how to hide my water cooling system I kept messing with things until I found that one of the pins on the molex connector for my pump had pulled out. So I pushed it back in, and taped it in place.

I still made out ahead in the deal. I’ve now got 8 gigs of RAM, a sweet motherboard, and a quad core processor that pwns everything! Yeah, I know there’s stuff faster on the market but for a $400 upgrade… I must say this is a HUGE performance upgrade for me… now when I get the money I just need to move to RAID 5EE and I’ll be sitting pretty for the next few years.

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It seems like nobody is safe any more. If your computer is hooked to the internet, whether it is PC, Linux, or Mac you’re in danger of of having your information stolen, files lost, or being infected with a virus. Even the Mac corporation has warned its users to start installing Antivirus Software. Antivirus Software has been available for and encouraged for both Windows machines and Linux for a long time now. Linux because it controls a major stake in the server market, and windows because it is the most popular operating system around. But in actuality nobody is safe from the threat of infection by a computer virus. Especially since Mac computers that were once thought to be invulnerable to computer virus programs have now become the easy prey. With the increase in market share by Mac computers and at a recent hacker convention the Mac computer was compromised a full day before either Windows or Linux had been breached. Also with Windows offering free Antivirus Software, and free Malware protection in 2009 that leaves everyone else with an extra layer behind Windows in terms of security. Using only one form of antivirus software is rarely enough though, generally as a rule of thumb I try to keep my computer protected with two antivirus softwares, and at least one anti-spyware, with AdAware to keep ad programs at bay. Of course it sounds like a lot of protection, with how much I work and play online, you can never be too careful with your computers sensitive information.

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High society isn’t all of what it is cracked up to be. Living here in Parkville, MO I’ve seen a lot of what “Affluent Society” has to offer. Parkville is sort of your quiet rich neighborhood, sure the average income (even including us who make less than $20,000 a year) is around $250,000 a year. So we’ve obviously got some very wealthy people around the area, but it’s still nothing like our neighbors in Johnson County, KS which is one of the wealthiest spots in America. People generally move to Parkville to get away from the high class, high society types… even though many of them are very wealthy themselves.

There’s a new book out about Surviving High Society where Elizabeth Mulholland writes her true story about her life in the upper class. I don’t pretend to desire to be in her, or any ones shoes who has lived the life of the rich and famous, quite the opposite for me. I’d like to make enough money to survive, but just enough. I want the freedom to live creatively with my writings, bloggings, and jewelry creations without the pressures of what the world expects of me every day. I like to live a life that is beneficial to everyone around me, but I don’t want others telling me when and where my “skills” are needed. I had a friend in high school who’s father makes well over $2 million a year, she was a great artist, and wanted to go to an art school… but because it wasn’t within their idea of what someone “should” do for a living they threatened to cut her off from all the lifelines of the family if she wanted to go to the school. Not exactly the kind of life I want. I’d rather live free and poor than a slave and rich… but that’s just me.

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