tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-192308952024-03-07T15:37:24.980-08:00Don's Notepad (Official)A glimpse of what I was thinking at the time.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger394125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19230895.post-27309659223443455832021-04-25T07:20:00.004-07:002021-04-25T07:23:18.603-07:00How to mine Dogecoin on Windows in 10 minutes How To Setup Windows to Mine Dogecoin in 10 MinutesI was curious one day on how easy would it be to actually mine cryptocurrency, especially new ones like Dogecoin, with an old PC rig using Windows 10 and an old video card like GTX 1050 Ti. After setup, I left it alone for a few hours and to my surprise, I got some Dogecoin!Here's step by step how to do it!Get a Dogecoin wallet. Download a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19230895.post-22983518908579041382020-12-13T02:00:00.006-08:002020-12-13T02:14:16.885-08:00DSnews Magazine gives nod
DS news magazine gives nod to my book as part of their Good Reads choiceDSNews Magazine is the leading source of housing, real estate, and mortgage foreclosure insights, and I found out today it recognized my book, Complete Guide to Real Estate Tax Liens and Foreclosure Deeds, as one of their Good Reads. One of my earliest publications from years ago, continues to be relevant in this day Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19230895.post-15007427602153842142020-01-13T01:25:00.000-08:002020-01-13T01:25:03.240-08:00How to Build a Raised Garden Bed Quickly
In the last couple years, building raised garden beds have become extremely popular.
There's a few advantages:
It's easy for your back, so you don't have to bend over as much. You won't complain when you're young, but repetitive action as you bend over to take care of your gardening can actually hurt you if your posture is incorrect. A raised bed helps reduces that problem.
It's harder for Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19230895.post-18843097435965648732020-01-11T17:49:00.002-08:002020-01-11T18:35:59.274-08:00American Express Platinum's race to the bottom: Gogo Inflight Internet Wifi Passes gone
The end to half a decade of free Internet
American Express recently announced that the era of free Internet passes on Gogo enabled flights like Delta is over, and also goes the same for Boingo Internet services.
I was recently surprised to find this out on my flights back home. My Gogo passes were no longer available.
Launched in 2014, these Internet passes were especially valuable for Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19230895.post-6601111376356752172019-12-05T04:14:00.001-08:002019-12-05T04:17:43.013-08:00Improving Society and Employee Satisfaction: Give Advance Notice of Work Schedules Changes
Work schedules
This isn't rocket science, but it continues to elude many employers.
One of the answers to balancing a work life environment for the average team member or employee in your company doesn't have to come with free food, free spas and yoga classes. It is as simple as your managers and workforce teams upholding a principle often ignored in a broad range of industry sectors and Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19230895.post-20155993386841471292019-02-10T03:04:00.004-08:002019-02-14T01:56:49.158-08:00Could We Change the World by Changing How We Farm?
Our food supply requirements and agricultural land uses are major contributors to our world's ills.
The answer to keeping our food supply safe, our environment pristine, and our farmers disease free isn't an impossible equation.
Part of the answer is in our genes, as we peel back the layers of time and understand how mankind stayed healthy before the agricultural revolution, and Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19230895.post-61855535537204982012019-01-15T00:57:00.001-08:002019-01-15T00:57:34.369-08:00A historical and theological examination of Christmas as a tradition: is it pagan or Christian?
SHOULD CHRISTIANS NOT CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS BECAUSE IT'S OF PAGAN ORIGIN OR SHOULD THEY CELEBRATE IT BECAUSE IT IS OF CHRISTIAN ORIGIN THAT CELEBRATES THE BIRTH OF CHRIST?
By Dr. Diego D. Sausa, DPT, MA (Theology)
Was the Christmas date December 25 copied from the pagans and therefore Christmas is a pagan original? Is it true, as commonly proffered around by many Christians, that Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19230895.post-85753137233495563272018-12-24T20:29:00.004-08:002019-01-15T04:37:31.283-08:00Avis Leaves Passenger Stranded on Christmas Eve with Unknown Debit Card Policy
Update 12/28/2018: Avis executive team has reached out and apologized and will work with addressing the concerns/costs regarding this whole ordeal.
Update 1/5/2019: Florida Attorney General Pam Brodi's office has sent an inquiry to Avis to follow-up, thanks to Crystal Fukushima for taking care of the follow through on investigating this issue with the Avis Budget Group.
Update Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19230895.post-27353455104538177692018-11-22T11:59:00.003-08:002018-11-22T11:59:19.365-08:00Remembering Marilyn Dee Parker, 1939 - 2013 on this Thanksgiving Day
Thanksgiving Day 2018: I look back at the individuals that have had a profound influence in my life. One of them, is Marilyn Dee Parker. According to an online obituary, Marilyn passed away a day after Thanksgiving Day in 2013, about five years ago.
Mrs. Parker was the principal at the now closed Fort Myers Junior Academy, previously located at 13235 Palm Beach Blvd, Fort Myers, FLUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19230895.post-39716089080006914612015-02-10T03:43:00.000-08:002015-02-10T03:57:50.899-08:00Game changer! Microsoft's HoloLens review (concept)
"Because when you can change the way you see the world, you change the world you see."
HoloLens is an exciting new tech that upgrades on the virtual reality goggles of our time, and conceptually, a step better than Google Glass. Microsoft has created a world changing tech, a new platform that has mass market appeal because it gives you new perspectives, and can take your imagination Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19230895.post-897421635043083502014-02-01T11:52:00.002-08:002014-02-01T17:19:52.726-08:00Comparing Thailand's troubles to American politics
A social government under pressure
Thailand's government is under attack.
Typically these types of problems against democratically elected governments are caused by poor, and often uneducated jihadists in Africa and the Middle East. But in Thailand, it's the educated, urban and middle class voters, who have lost five elections in a row, that are protesting and in some cases, violently Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19230895.post-46863457474535279772013-11-13T03:59:00.002-08:002014-01-03T15:06:14.901-08:00Help the Philippines: donate money or give water tablets
What's happening
By now, you are probably aware that the most powerful typhoon in world history (Haiyan) that hit land has wiped out certain towns in central Philippines. Casualties are estimated to be around 2,500. The worst hit areas have been on the island of Leyte, where storm surges above 13-15 ft surprised typhoon hardened residents. There's millions left homeless Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19230895.post-2544704287426090112013-11-08T14:51:00.001-08:002013-11-08T14:51:44.659-08:00Dell Venue Pro 11 - where are all the options? (Dell confirms next week)
The new Dell Venue Pro 11 order page is now available but it's lacking certain high end configurations! Shipment date is also pegged to be on December 13th. Here's what one Dell representative had to say about this...
11/08/2013 04:00:12PM don sausa: "Can you access this link?"
11/08/2013 04:00:12PM don sausa: "http://www.dell.com/us/p/dell-venue-11-pro/pd"
11/08/2013 04:00Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19230895.post-63875259386325795952013-11-01T17:22:00.002-07:002013-11-01T18:58:25.869-07:00SOLUTION: Nvidia Kernel Mode Driver errors
This is one of the most annoying errors I've come up against using NVIDIA graphic cards and judging from others' online posts, many have faced similar problems. Unfortunately, "Display driver NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version stopped [] responding and has successfully recovered" doesn't exactly communicate what's going on with the video card.
In my own experience, this error Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19230895.post-24393932432825185232013-10-25T09:57:00.001-07:002013-11-08T14:53:23.546-08:00Dell Venue 11 Pro release date (Dell rep confirms)
Dell gets it...finally a tablet for the enterprise user
I think the new Dell Venue 11 Pro tablet is a winner. A company does innovative things when it's losing market share, and Dell has done well by releasing a product that many enterprise users are waiting for.
Enterprise users are done with underpowered iPad toys with quirky little 99 cent apps. While cool and it gives Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19230895.post-13335681700939639892013-10-11T07:59:00.001-07:002014-12-31T14:47:04.044-08:00(FIX) Unable to change priority. The operation could not be completed. Access denied.
Problem: When I try to change the priority of a process in Task Manager, it gives me an error:
"Unable to change priority. The operation could not be completed. Access denied."
Solution: This issue plagued me for a few minutes and saw quite a few folks have issues about this on the Internet. The first issue could be that you don't have administrative access (admin) on your PC. &Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19230895.post-59250648005366920982013-05-10T10:22:00.000-07:002013-05-10T10:24:44.026-07:00Photogs beware: phishing attempt (AHG or Art Hunters Group)
I'm posting this warning so some of my photog friends who run online galleries don't get trapped by this suspicious attempt to get your personal information. I LOL'd at this attempt as they tried to phish for my info. ;-)
A new domain (arthuntersgroup.com) created just a couple days ago is representing itself to be some sort of art consortium. The email starts out Unknownnoreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19230895.post-60280444541303876242013-02-23T20:11:00.001-08:002013-02-24T01:36:23.353-08:00Teleperformance in Davao?Check out Teleperformance Philippines' Facebook posting today to see the latest buzz.
About Teleperformance
Teleperformance is the largest BPO company in the world, and considered as #1 by several industry analysts, including prestigious research firms like Gartner, who recently ranked all of the BPOs worldwide. Their results consistently has placed Teleperformance as the worldwide leader inUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19230895.post-65480104040919116662012-11-12T05:05:00.003-08:002013-02-23T20:16:14.014-08:00New cancer treatment isolates chemo from body
Great news recently in cancer research. We all know that chemotherapy can kill good and bad cells. This is why so many refuse treatment and why they choose to live out their days trying out alternative treatments. In the UK, doctors at Southampton General Hospital have been able to isolate specific organs in applying chemotherapy; therefore, greatly reducing the damage to Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19230895.post-49320823138542970432011-12-27T02:36:00.000-08:002011-12-27T02:52:56.223-08:00"A night stroll in Houhai" shot on Canon 7D - 60 Seconds of Culture
Houhai is a recreational lake area in central Beijing. It is famous for its nightlife and is home to many popular restaurants, bars, and cafes as well as recreational boating activities.
If you haven't been to Houhai, you haven't been to Beijing.
Shot around June 2010 using a Canon EOS 7D camera.
Photography by Don Sausa
Music score ("Dancing Leaves") by Ben Beiny
Video techniques Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19230895.post-23025160076784893752011-11-25T08:10:00.001-08:002011-12-26T16:02:44.228-08:00Review: The Sound of Music at Resorts World Manila
The Sound of Music @ Resorts World Manila Originally uploaded by Don Sausa
The Sound of Music is a 1959 Broadway musical by Richard Rodgers.
Resorts World Manila started production of this musical in October, at their brand new 1,500 seater performing arts theater.
The musical was inspired by the true story of a WWI naval war hero, Georg von Trapp, and his family's journey through the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19230895.post-73537457202974665192011-11-25T07:35:00.001-08:002011-11-25T07:44:53.485-08:00Flickr enhances privacy, adds geofences
Flickr, the world's premier photo sharing site made a major improvement to its privacy controls these past few weeks. If you use Flickr and share location information of your photographs, you need to spend a few minutes and read about their new geofences privacy features.
I'm glad that despite having some highly publicized lay offs , they managed to improve the site Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19230895.post-25950333576725717582011-11-14T03:05:00.001-08:002011-12-26T15:47:10.522-08:00Repairing your personal UPS power supply by replacing the battery
If you have lived in a country that's didn't have a quality power grid, then I'm sure you can relate to this post. In developing countries, constant fluctuations occur with the power supply and with the voltage.
This spells trouble for many electronic devices. Without consistent power supply or without stable voltage, your latest gadget could fry within seconds if it is left Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19230895.post-41072991612365146162011-10-29T12:57:00.000-07:002011-10-29T18:16:22.444-07:00An open letter in response to the OWS open letter
This is the open letter I'm responding to.
While I'm not the person being addressed, I wanted to talk about the liberal viewpoint and their perception of what is proper work ethic.
Let's start this conversation by stating this fact: I live in a planet that has 2 of 3 Americans overweight (including the OWS protestors that are "poor") and in a world that has people dying every 3.6 Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19230895.post-57494782429440838302011-10-28T21:33:00.000-07:002011-10-28T22:18:50.615-07:00Occupy Wall Street truth pill: About those evil corporations
This video summarizes what #ows (Occupy Wall Street) protests are all about. They make general statements about corporate greed and apparently that's enough to demand for free hand outs. What's worst is that the mindless hordes (aka zombies) generalize corporations as evil.
About 70% of American households invest in corporations through retirement accounts. Corporations have to produce Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0