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Re: Photo: Curvy Mirror Self Portrait

DavidEttinger — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:44:17 -0000

Yes. They were trying to steal my mojo. Luckily I managed to hold onto
it by hiding it from them in an invisible coin purse I
carry in my back pocket for occasions such as these. One never knows,
you know.

Re: Photo: Curvy Mirror Self Portrait

Stephen Trickey — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 11:01:06 -0000

The little floaty bubbly things make this pic very interesting. Where you being scanned by aliens?

Re: Homebrewing Pictures – Northern English Brown Ale

DavidEttinger — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:29:15 -0000

Thanks, and sorry about the colorblindness. I've got an increasing amount of black-and-white going on lately, for whatever that's worth...

Re: Homebrewing Pictures – Northern English Brown Ale

Judd — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:40:57 -0000

Your photos have such rich color quality. Beautiful. I wish I weren't colorblind.

Re: Homebrewing Pictures – Northern English Brown Ale

DavidEttinger — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 10:30:55 -0000

I know you'll love the process, and you're right - it might be best to wait until she's grown up. It wouldn't be fair to make such a big mess with her and have her not be able to enjoy the final product!

Re: Homebrewing Pictures – Northern English Brown Ale

Velopaint — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 09:43:36 -0000

I would love to try home brewing but think I'll have to wait until my daughter is all grown up. Thanks for sharing the pictures. One day Firefox will have a 'taste' sharing tab.

Re: Where the Microwave Goes – The Long Story

Complete kitchen — Fri, 27 May 2011 02:21:24 -0000

You have elaborated it very well. You have done although things whatever thought. I am impressed by your work. Really good job.
Complete kitchen

Re: Apartment Fire At Newgard and North Shore In Rogers Park, Chicago

tel aviv apartment — Mon, 02 May 2011 21:58:12 -0000

thank God ... because the firemen immediately cool down the fire .. and Praise God for that ..

Re: Seeking Quickbooks Alternatives (Before I Stick a Shrimp Fork In My Twitching Left Eye)

Matt Baron — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:17:01 -0000

After years of working at my family marketing company Prewards Ltd., I had developed a custom built Filemaker solution that talks to Quickbooks and works as a production flow system. Pretty awesome if I don't say so myself. But I'm in complete agreement about QB being BS about forcing upgrades every 2-3 years. So with that in mind, I'm working with my developer to pull all the functionality out of quickbooks and into filemaker resulting in no need for QB, but keeping some of the functions my accounting dept. has become familiar with and actually uses. Once this is complete, we will also build an iPad version layout of our system, allowing us to run our business on an iPad alone. Of course, we are in marketing so design and other programs will be run on a Mac or PC, but we will finally say GOODBYE to Quickbooks. If anyone would like a demonstration of how our system works and steps and costs invloved, please feel free to reach out to me @ mbaron@prewardsltd.com I hope I can help others find a great solution for their business.

Re: Where the Microwave Goes – The Long Story

Mold Testing Hialeah — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:36:21 -0000

Wonderful designs.

Re: Seeking Quickbooks Alternatives (Before I Stick a Shrimp Fork In My Twitching Left Eye)

DavidEttinger — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 16:18:13 -0000

True, storing any data in the cloud is nerve-wracking. It does seem to be the way of the future, though. I keep feeling that as internet connections get fast enough, we'll be moving back to the mainframe-and-terminal style of computing I recall from college, in which the computer on the desk (or in your hand, or embedded in your scalp, or whatever) is doing almost nothing. Sure, it's a recipe for disaster, but isn't it also a recipe for disaster having every small business operator managing their own data?

Re: Seeking Quickbooks Alternatives (Before I Stick a Shrimp Fork In My Twitching Left Eye)

Ebbi — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 10:39:24 -0000

Seems like a great idea, but no thanks. Do you really want your personal company data stored on some remote server that doesn't belong to you? Not me. :/ If you find any other alternatives to Quickbooks, that work offline. Please post it! I've tried them all, and none seem to have the features that Quickbooks does without the bloatedness.

Re: Where the Microwave Goes – The Long Story

woodworking project plans — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 02:02:46 -0000

Very beautiful! Good design. I love it. I really want to see that place.

Re: Where the Microwave Goes – The Long Story

marble cleaning — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 07:45:42 -0000

It was a big pain to clean up all that dried glue, but eventually it was done. Thanks.

Re: Seeking Quickbooks Alternatives (Before I Stick a Shrimp Fork In My Twitching Left Eye)

DavidEttinger — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:10:09 -0000

Sorry, I can't recommend any alternatives for PC. There just doesn't seem to be a decent alternative, neither for PC nor for Mac. I know exactly what you mean about the forced upgrades, too. I'm still searching, and I know that lots of other people are, too.

Re: Seeking Quickbooks Alternatives (Before I Stick a Shrimp Fork In My Twitching Left Eye)

Webmaster — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:09:04 -0000

I am sick to death of the forced upgrades every two years. By forced, I mean if you don't they cut off basic functionality by ending "support" for anything involving outside contact from within the program. It's also pretty buggy and tends to crash upon opening a lot.

Any information on alternatives for PC?

Re: Seeking Quickbooks Alternatives (Before I Stick a Shrimp Fork In My Twitching Left Eye)

DavidEttinger — Mon, 10 May 2010 16:28:19 -0000

Bill, I'm right there with you. Every year at tax time, when I spend the most time with Quickbooks, it rankles me the most, I go searching, and come back to Quickbooks. Same thing happened this year, except I searched a lot more than I have in the past, and still, I came back to Quickbooks. Everything I read about the Mac version throws up red flags, and the online version seems really weak, not to mention completely overpriced. So I continue with Quickbooks running on a PC. Like you, I have absolutely no faith in it, and back it up obsessively, fearing that it's always just an instant away from ruining my life for at least a few days or a week, which is what it would take to reconstruct things well enough to get it off my mind.

I certainly will let you know if I learn of any other really good options, and I'd love it if you would try to remember me if such options become available to you!
D.

Re: Seeking Quickbooks Alternatives (Before I Stick a Shrimp Fork In My Twitching Left Eye)

Design Inside — Mon, 10 May 2010 15:33:19 -0000

Hi David, let me know what you find. I absolutely despise QuickBooks and I'm always afraid that it is going to crash and corrupt my entire company file. There aren't many alternatives that I have found so it looks like I'm stuck with the QuickBooks POS (I'm not talking about Point of Sale here).