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Email to Dreamhost Support: Funky Email/Subdomain Problem

Just sent this email to Dreamhost support… wonder if they’ll help me with my crazy email problem (not their fault). (Dreamhost is where I’m hosting this blog, and some other sites)

Welcome to Rex.FM

This is random collection of thoughts and experiments. I hope you will be entertained, perhaps even inspired, or at least find something useful. Lately what I’ve been up to is this: Permaculture Plant-based Cuisine Building a business doing custom electronics and service Helping out family friends and neighbors with tech support and dog walking etc skateboarding!  

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I offer Personal Technology Consulting including Mac and PC Repair, Troubleshooting, Mobile Phone Troubleshooting, Web and Tech Training, Remote Assistance, Batch Automation / Scripting Services, and Custom Support. Free telephone or email consultation. Call 415-230-1395 or email help@rex.fm KEY EXPERIENCE 4 years elite tech support at Google in Mountain View (Mac / Windows / Linux […]

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Putting Alcohol In My Gas Tank

I’ve been reading this really exciting book called Alcohol Can Be A Gas, and it argues that the technology for a sustainable fuel economy is already here, and we can start driving on carbon-sequestering biofuels with our same cars, already today! What’s better news? Because the nautral economics of alcohol fuel produxtion, rhe market will […]

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Position Yourself For The Future

My latest interest: trying to predict the future, and position myself so as to be able to influence outcomes moving forward. For example, when a new web application is launched, my public reviews can bring new users to the site, provide strong feedback to the developers, and even change the public understanding, and thus, the […]

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A Small Plan

A Small Plan For an America in Recession. (What I would do if I didn’t have a good job right now) Out of a job? Can’t pay rent? Credit stacking up? You’re not alone. More Americans are looking for a job right now than in the past XX years. If you feel like just getting […]

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One Week With A Nokia N95

I’ve been using a Nokia N95 8GB (N95-2) for the past week. And I just took the SIM card out and put it back in my iPhone. Here’s why: The user interface feels outdated after getting used to the iPhone. It feels more like Windows than Mac if you know what I mean. It doesn’t […]

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What I did on 2007-11-09

Woohoo! There’s drinking at my Wine Appreciation class! # I spy what’s probably a moth pheromone plane in the sky # Driving at night, I like looking for reflections to tell the color of traffic lights you can’t see. # Watching the most recent episode of South Park. Stan/Kyle become Guitar Hero "Rock Stars" … […]

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SkypeOut Toll Free is Free

Yeah, okay, OLD news… but I was just on the phone with Apple iPhone Support, and I couldn’t use a landline. Apparently, dialing US Toll-Free numbers with Skype via SkypeOut is free(!). I don’t know if you need SkypeOut credit to make the call, but probably not. And it was pretty good quality too (the […]

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My iPhone Won’t Turn On

So my battery got low yesterday afternoon. I was away from home and didn’t get to charge it until after dinner. It wouldn’t turn on, so I plugged it in. It still wouldn’t turn on, even after 10 minutes. I tried doing a reset unplugged, plugged into my MacBook Pro, and plugged into the wall […]