Articles in September 2009

  • A Positive Customer Service Experience

    Posted: 29 September 2009 at 8:42 p.m.
    UPS Logo (245x300)Just a quick post today -- here's an example of good customer service in action.  I purchased something online but I accidentally let the browser auto-fill our Idaho Falls address instead of our new St. George address during checkout.  When the package didn't come, we looked into the issue ... ...read more
  • Inspiring Blind Man

    Posted: 25 September 2009 at 4:54 p.m.

    One of my favorite parts of my job is interacting with all different types of people from different backgrounds.  It's inspiring for me to meet people who have overcome great obstacles to get to where they are in life. 

    Yesterday I had the opportunity to train one of our ...

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  • How Fast Can You Type?

    Posted: 23 September 2009 at 10:02 p.m.

    While reading resumes tonight, I came across a resume from an individual that said they can type 40 words per minute.  One thing lead to another, and I found a cool website that will give you a speed test to how fast you can type!

    Here is the cool badge ...

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  • Launched Free Quilt Classifieds

    Posted: 18 September 2009 at 5:19 p.m.

    Free Quilt Classifieds screen shot (300x178)Hurray!  After months of work, we launched a new website today, Free Quilt Classifieds!  This website lets you list your quilting, sewing, and craft supplies for free.  Quilters all over the world now have a place to go to list their used longarm machines, sewing machines, etc.  Crafters can list ...

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  • Great Book: FREE

    Posted: 18 September 2009 at 2:24 p.m.

    I've been listening to a great book called Free by Chris Anderson.  It's a wonderful book about how businesses all over the world in the recent decade are making a fortune from "Free".  Chris Anderson and I relate, he's a die-hard Linux fan and into the tech ...

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  • Django + PHP to run on the same domain

    Posted: 17 September 2009 at 3:10 p.m.

    Today I figured out how to put Django and PHP to run together on the same site using the Lighttpd web server.  I googled around to see if anyone else had accomplished this feat, but haven't found anyone that did, so I thought I'd post how I did ...

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  • My experience buying Vista

    Posted: 16 September 2009 at 10:08 a.m.

    I bought a copy of Vista last night.  Yup, I did it.  If any of you know me, I'm a huge Linux nut, and I find myself much more productive on my Linux machine than any other OS.  But I need it to run Quickbooks, so I broke down ...

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