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	<description>by Tom Coffee: Daddy Blogger.  Humorist.</description>
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		<title>Why I Returned My iPad 2</title>
		<link>http://www.spillingcoffee.com/2011/04/29/ipad-4-0-returned/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 20:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Coffee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;ve heard of this new gadget called the iPad 2. It came out a month or so ago and it&#8217;s by this company that&#8217;s named after a fruit! Anyway, I picked up one of these iPad 2s. But I didn&#8217;t keep it. The iPad 2. Sleek. Sexy. Impossible To Find. Painful to Type On. Get yours from Amazon.com today! Before I give you the specific reasons for returning my iPad 2, I want to be honest and tell you that I didn&#8217;t fully understand the need to have one in the first place. I already own two large HD TVs, a $280 netbook and an iPhone 4. I&#8217;m also not really a gadget collector (too practical and/or cheap for that) and I don&#8217;t have a lot of time to consume vast quantities of media. I&#8217;m a busy working father, who barely has time to get to work, have dinner and spend anymore than an hour with the kids each night before I have to go to bed and do it all over again. I have Netflix disc of Inception that&#8217;s been sitting on my coffee table, unopened, for the past two weeks. I was hoping the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Fix The Sony PlayStation PS3 80710092 Error</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 09:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Coffee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is going to be nerdy. Sorry. As a nerd I feel it is my duty to alert other nerds of solutions to technical problems when I happen to stumble across them, no matter how stupid the problem or the solution may actually be. This particular stupid problems has been cropping up on PlayStation 3&#8242;s around the world: When you try to do just about anything with your PS3 that requires an internet connection (and, really, most everything does these days) you get an 80710092 error in the upper right corner of the screen which tells you there was a problem connecting to the DNS server. Then, whenever you try to do something you often end up getting an error which reads: An error has occurred. You have been signed out of PlayStation Network. (80710092) Suggested Action. You can choose to see the suggested actions. They&#8217;re helpful in the same way most Windows error messages are helpful: not at all. Thanks for the suggested actions, Sony.&#160; This PS3 error is particularly annoying when you just promised your 4 1/2 year old that he can watch an episode of Richard Scarry&#8217;s Busytown Mysteries on Netflix for being so good during the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Amazon&#8217;s Subscribe and Save for Baby Supplies</title>
		<link>http://www.spillingcoffee.com/2011/03/31/a-quick-review-of-amazon-coms-subscribe-and-save/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:35:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Coffee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have a baby in the house which means that my wife and I spend approximately 23 hours out of the day feeding the baby, changing the baby, playing with the baby and trying to figure out what the baby will need in the next 23 hours. Usually the answers are pretty much the same: diapers, formula, baby wipes and food. Tired of runs to Costco and Target to fill our trunks with huge diaper boxes and crates of formula, we decided to give Amazon&#8217;s Subscribe and Save program a try. It&#8217;s available on a lot of items that you would tend to buy, use up, and then buy again. Think snacks, baby supplies, coffee, paper towels, batteries, printer ink, etc. Amazon&#8217;s Subscribe &#038; Save is particularly useful for restocking all those consumable items that you find yourself buying over and over again. Like most things on Amazon.com, it&#8217;s fairly easy to set up and order. You save money by agreeing to have certain items automatically delivered to you in one, two, three or six month intervals. Shipping is free, you get emails when something is about to be sent and you can modify your order at any time before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Job Owes Me For the iPad</title>
		<link>http://www.spillingcoffee.com/2010/01/27/steve-job-owes-me-for-the-ipad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:23:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Coffee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Other than Apple&#8217;s blatant rip-off of my own iPad product from 2006, I (in agreement with most of the free world) was fairly underwhelmed by what Steve Jobs unveiled today. Let&#8217;s face it, the iPad probably won&#8217;t go down in the annals of history of computing as one of Apple&#8217;s more half-baked ideas, like the Apple Lisa, eWorld, the Macintosh Portable, the Puck Mouse and Apple TV. But it still could. The inspiration for the Apple iPad&#8217;s keyboard. Little known fact: Steve Jobs is an Atari 400 fanboy. (You can still buy them on Amazon.com) For the iPad it&#8217;s pretty clear that Steve and his designers were feeling overly arrogant and figured they could take a good idea, give it a twist (&#8220;I know, we&#8217;ll make it&#8230; BIGGER!&#8221;) and sell another 30 million units. Even Steve pretty much admitted that he and his Apple geniuses simply took an iPhone, removed some features (like the phone, camera, portability, usefulness and fun) and made it large enough to look cool, but not large enough to, you know, play a wide screen movie or have comfortable keys for typing. Here&#8217;s the simple problem with the iPad: it&#8217;s being treated as if it&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Fix that USB Device Not Recognized Error in Windows Vista</title>
		<link>http://www.spillingcoffee.com/2008/07/30/fixing-that-usb-device-not-recognized-error-in-windows-vista/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Coffee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had the dreaded Windows Vista for exactly a year now and I just had my first real &#8220;issue&#8221; with the OS. It was the dreaded Windows Vista &#8220;USB Device Not Recognized&#8221; error that seemed to appear after a quick power blip in my home. For those of you not familiar with the famous Windows Vista USB Device Not Recognized error, I&#8217;ll give you a quick synopsis: you are using Windows Vista and minding your own business when suddenly a little pop-up message appears and tell you, surprise! you have a &#8220;USB Device Not Recognized!&#8221; There&#8217;s an annoying little bell that rings and you click on the stupid pop-up bubble and get.. well&#8230; nothing. At least for me I saw nothing. And here&#8217;s the problem: you can&#8217;t find anything wrong so you can&#8217;t actually fix anything. Windows Vista doesn&#8217;t tell you which USB device is not recognized, which USB port has the problem or what it thinks is happening. The error message &#8220;USB Device Not Recognized&#8221; is just about completely meaningless. But every 30 seconds the bubble pops up again with that annoying little bell. So I did what I do whenever I hear a discouraging sound coming from my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Technology and Coffee Meet in The CaffiNation</title>
		<link>http://www.spillingcoffee.com/2007/05/19/technology-and-coffee-meet-in-the-caffination/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spillingcoffee.com/2007/05/19/technology-and-coffee-meet-in-the-caffination/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2007 11:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Coffee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The time traveling Paul Muller of the CaffiNation Technology and Coffee podcast. Paul Rj Muller can travel through time, and I hate him for it. He hasn&#8217;t told me about his abilities, of course. True time travelers never reveal their secret power, but I&#8217;ve found him out anyway. I&#8217;ll explain how I know this in a moment. Paul is the Head Barista and Digital DJ Supreme over at The CaffiNation Podcast of The High Octane World of Coffee and Technology. His media empire consists of a Podcast and blog that usually concentrates on coffee, technology, music and just about everything else cool in between. He&#8217;s always entertaining, he usually digs up some darn good music on his podcast and he always has a few super-cool links on his blog. But there&#8217;s more. You see, Paul also runs a small business on the side, works a full-time job and, by an amazing coincidence, became a father of his own little bundle of joy one day before my own little Baby Coffee was born. He&#8217;s probably also producing a cable tv show for FOX, single handedly building Internet 3 in his basement, writing a romance novel and putting together the definitive directory [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Fix an iPod with the Sad iPod Icon</title>
		<link>http://www.spillingcoffee.com/2006/07/13/how-to-fix-an-ipod-with-the-sad-ipod-icon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spillingcoffee.com/2006/07/13/how-to-fix-an-ipod-with-the-sad-ipod-icon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Coffee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not exactly busy at work right now so I spend most of my days looking for things to do, surfing the web and listening to my iPod. I&#8217;ve been doing this for several months and I&#8217;m already to the point where I desperately need the twin drugs of an Internet connection and a charged mp3 player filled with groovy tunes just to make it through the day without bludgeoning myself to death with a stapler. And then this morning arrived. I pulled my iPod off the charger and noticed the dreaded Sad iPod icon on my screen. My iPod was not working. This made me sad, too. Beneath the icon was the URL http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/. I went to work and immediately pulled up the web address. Sure enough, there were all sorts of tips on how to deal with the little sad icon, including Apple&#8217;s standard cheery &#8220;5 R List&#8221; of ways to fix your iPod: Reset, Retry, Restart, Reinstall, Restore. Of course none of these even remotely worked. Everything I tried immediately ended up with me getting the sad iPod icon once again. Frustrated I turned to the blogosphere and started searching around for anyone who might have had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Dead PC For Me</title>
		<link>http://www.spillingcoffee.com/2006/02/01/dead-pc-for-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2006 02:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Coffee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My computer at my office died sometime over lunch today. I came back to work after a long lunch in the company cafeteria, reached down under my little desk and hit the power button on my PC. Nothing happened. No hum, no beep, no little blips on the monitor. I hit the button again. Still nothing. I bang the button three or four times. Dead. So I kick it. Hard. I bet you&#8217;ve never seen this funny computer graphic before! LOL! And it feels really good, especially after last week when it froze up and made me lose two hours of work on a mind-numbingly boring spreadsheet I was working on. It has been freezing up a lot lately, almost always while working on really boring spreadsheets. I figured my computer just wasn&#8217;t &#8220;a numbers sort of guy.&#8221; It never froze up on Adobe Photoshop or Macromedia Director or even Bikini Babe Poker. Heck, it wouldn&#8217;t even freeze up on the fun spreadsheets where I was tracking things like how many cups of coffee I can drink in a day without stuttering or graphing the relationship between my boss&#8217;s attempts to use our company database and emergency help desk calls. [...]]]></description>
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