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Entries from March 2008

Imperia Invest IBC is it a scam ?

March 31st, 2008 · 999 Comments

Someone I Know emailed me last week about Imperia Invest IBC, asking if I thought it was a scam.  Apparently a lot of people are signing up for the program. Here are my thought: 1. The web site is in broken English (remember the Nigerian diplomat scam?) 2. No contact phone numbers, address appears to [...]

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Tags: Scams, Beware, & Rants

kernel_date_inpage_error Blue Screen

March 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Vicki’s computer started getting the blue screen of death with the warning kernel_date_inpage_error last week.  The notes on the page indicated that it could be one of the following problems, memory could be going bad, bad disk sector, or a recent software download.   The ‘puter is 3 years old so I suspected a disk drive [...]

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Tags: Computing, Gear, Digital

Turn Old Gold Into Cash

March 11th, 2008 · No Comments

Gold has been rocketing in price over the past few years, it is currently at  $988.00.  If you have old gold jewelry laying around that you no longer use, now may be a good time to turn it into cash.   The Wall Street Journal had an article by Ann Zimmerman that details what she did [...]

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Tags: Financial · Shopping & Service

Marguerite Zupansic Celebrates 80th Birthday

March 3rd, 2008 · 6 Comments

Last Thursday, 28th February Marguerite celebrated her 80th birthday !!  Eldest son Joe came from South Carolina, daughter Mary came from Wisconsin (do you really need an excuse to leave Wisconsin in winter time?).   All the children and spouses went to Troyer’s  Dutch Heritage Restaurant (Amish) in Sarasota (a Marguerite favorite).   The food was very [...]

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Tags: Family