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Stop Trusting Spanning Backup with Your Data

This has been a difficult thing to try and wrap my head around, but the following is a story about how Spanning Backup simply DELETED all my backups from the last 3+ years.  What I am going to detail in the paragraphs to follow is not only a timeline of …

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Promotions vs Title Changes

Today was one of those “update LinkedIN” days.  As of February 1st, my group all got new job titles.  The post below was one of those automatic “congratulate so and so on their promotion” that the platform does automatically (if you have the notify network option on). This got me …

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The Great Calendar Debate

Yesterday I posted a tweet that had a little bit of discussion so I felt a bit more context and explanation was needed.  At the end of the day almost everyone in a corporate job uses technology that allows access to everyone’s calendar….provided people actually keep it up to date …

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Free Advice On Debt Reduction

I am not a financial advisor, or a wizard.  What I do have is a lot of common sense, and a half decent head on my shoulders.  There are a lot of “pros” out there that cover this but I wanted to just talk about my own personal experience with …

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So Your House Got Struck By Lightning, Now What?

Saturday July 20th, approximately 1:33pm, it was raining, a storm cell was going through like one has 100 times since I move to Tennessee.  I was alone and I heard couple good thunder boomers off in the distance, but I went on about my business.  Julie was out grocery shopping …

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