September 02, 2005

How to Help the Hurricane Katrina Disaster Victims

FLOOD AID UPDATE: Here are some places you can donate to hurricane Katrina relief: American Red Cross

Catholic Charities is involved, and probably has lots of resources to draw on in the heavily Catholic New Orleans area.

Austin Bay is recommending Episcopal Relief and Development.

Liz at Rightalk suggests that animal lovers donate to the Humane Society.

Here's a link to Mennonite Disaster Services. The Sanity Inspector says they're highly efficient.

Reader Peter Viditto recommends The Mercy Corps

Here's the link for Methodist Relief.

Lisa Larkin recommends Operation Blessing.

The Salvation Army does good work. (WalMart just gave them a million dollars, but that's just the barest beginning of what's needed.)

Hugh Hewitt recommends Samaritan's Purse

Scott Ott recommends Southern Baptist Disaster Relief.

Here's the link for N.Z. Bear's Katrina relief aggregator page.

Here's FEMA's list of recommended charities.

From Instapundit

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June 10, 2005

A Little Renovation Going On

I'm in the process of taking the frames out of this site. For a few days you may encounter links that either don't work or give you spurious results. Please be patient. We'll clean these up as best we can.

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May 16, 2005

Exterminators are almost done

The exterminators are almost done. I am now able to work, but tomorrow I’ll need to push all the furniture back where it was before. My productivity has taken a hit today. Suffering from a nasty cold hasn’t helped.

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Exterminators are here

The exterminators are here this morning. They are going to be drilling holes through the concrete floor and then injecting some kind of bug venom into the holes and plugging them up again. It’s going to be hard to get anything done until they leave and the office is back in production again.

Sigh.

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May 14, 2005

The Office is a Disaster

It is hard to believe, but we have termites in our building. The only wood in the whole building, as far as I know, are the windowsills.

But one morning a couple of weeks ago, a hole opened up in one of the sills and a swarm of termites commences to fly from the hole. It was like something out of a horror movie.

The property owner has arranged for exterminators to come Monday morning. But they need everything three feet away from the wall. This afternoon I went over, with some help, took the network down, and dragged all the desks away from the wall.

You’d be surprised of all the extra cables one can collect and not every know it.

Well everything is three feet from the exterior walls, but I don’t know how they’re going to get to them. I also don’t know where I’m going to sit on Monday.

I’ll be glad when this is over. What an aggravation.

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May 13, 2005

Search Engine Results

Just for ha-ha’s I checked Google, Yahoo, and MSN to see how Eastern Business Solutions ranked in their search engines.

Here are the results . . .

Google – Number 1 and number 2
MSN – Number 2 after the sponsored links
Yahoo – Number 1 and number 2 after the sponsored links

Not bad.

Of course if I search on Microsoft Great Plains, we are lost in the dust. But I consider this site a source for existing clients and people I’ve already spoken to and they want to learn more about us. I don’t expect anyone, who’s going to spend between $5,000 and $80,000, to go looking for us on the net.

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March 21, 2005

Under Promise, Over Deliver

I almost hit the jackpot today. I ordered one of these little 200GB USB external hard drives the other day. Dell had one of the best prices, so ordered it from Dell. It coasts me a little over $200.

It arrived today.

I thought the box was large and heavy for the size. I looked at the attached packing slip to make sure it was what I had ordered. The packing slip confirmed what I expected to received.

When I opened the box I found four drives instead of one. For a little over $200 I had received over $800 in hard drives.

Tempting as it was to keep them, we got on the phone to Dell and they are sending a call tag to pick up the drives I didn’t order.

I can see how the error was made. The warehouse person picked one case instead of one drive. There would have been no way Dell could ever have accounted for the missing three drives.

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March 02, 2005

Scheduled Away Mission

I’m out of the office for the rest of the week. I’ll be working at a client site during that time period.

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