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Santa’s Journey has officially begun

Staring just a few minutes ago Santa has began to deliver presents around the world. Track his journey at: http://www.noradsanta.org


The Recording Industry Finally Decides to Stop Suing Customers

After several years of little to no progress in slowing illegal online music downloads the RIAA has decided it will stop suing customers. According to the Wall Street Journal the RIAA is going to forge deals with major U.S. internet service providers. Below is an excerpt from the article about the new deal: Instead, the [...]


Snow Day in Spokane

Snow is not uncommon in our area this time of year. In fact, in December snow is expected. What isn’t expected is to set an all time record for snowfall in a 24 hour period. I just got in from snow blowing my driveway for the third time in the same 24 hour period. I [...]


Stemkoski.com Version 2

I haven’t been blogging that long but it has become something I really enjoy doing. Thus far, my blog has done better than I expected and thanks to Google I get an acceptable amount of traffic each day. Most of these visitors are looking for technical information contained deep within posts and rarely do these [...]


Ryan Stemkoski View on Google Maps

So Sheldon was looking up some of his favorite places to hang out when he was in America visiting. When passing by the Hills his favorite bar and the home of Mike the Extreme Bartender, he came across a street view of me walking into work. I don’t remember being photographed but it looks like [...]


Carving Pumpkins 2008

It is getting close to Halloween and we decided to take some time off today. My friend Stephanie, her husband Ryan, and her son Boston all came over to hang out with Kayla and I and we carved pumpkins. Halloween is just over a week away. I personally am not a huge fan of Halloween [...]


Other Inbox – Easy, Free, Spam Solution

Caleb White recently tipped me off to a new service called Other Inbox. If anyone wants to give it a try shoot me an email or leave a comment and I will send over an invite. Basically what it does is it allows you to create any number of inboxes which can then be automatically [...]


Trends are for Tools

For years I have tried to keep with my usual strategy of bucking trends.  So it is only naturally that now that the blogging trend has slowed down I finally decided it was time for me to join in.    During my years as a blogless rebel I still managed to keep up on the blog postings of [...]