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The Urinal Game – Would You Choose Correctly?

Choose which urinal to pick. Have you ever found yourself walking into a men’s bathroom and seeing a wall of urinals and not knowing which one to pick?

So let’s say there’s 1 person randomly along the wall of toilets and you need to get in and piss quick.

Which one do you pee in?

Play this game and treat it like a training class. So the next time you’re in a public bathroom and you’re faced with choosing which urinal to pick, you’ll know because you took our training and passed the test.

Now share this with your buddy so he doesn’t get harassed in the bathroom next time and he’ll know which urinal to choose as well. It’s not as entertaining as the scary maze game or bubble shooter game but have fun with my other games too. Ok?

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Companies Aren’t Archiving Emails. Are You Archiving Your Own Emails?

email-iconRemember that email you got with that password you needed?

Where is that email with your bank information or vacation itinerary?

We’ve all seen Microsoft Outlook email archiving pop up and often they hit yes to archive old emails without knowing what it does. What is email archiving and how does it help? Is it worth it for the average person to archive emails? Does it save space or make it quicker to open emails? Many users have these questions when they first hear the term email archiving. Email archiving is an amazing tool for businesses, although for personal use email archiving may not offer many benefits.

Boston Mayor Isn’t Archiving his Emails

In the case of Boston City Hall, a close advisor to Mayor Menino has been reported to have deleted items from his inbox, sent box and the deleted/trash folder on a daily basis prior to traditional end-of-day tape backup. Now the Massachusetts Secretary of State has forced the hiring of an independent expert to retrieve City Hall emails that were “improperly deleted.” If a Microsoft Exchange archiving solution had been implemented, these email records, including email, calendar items and records of email deletions, would have been captured immediately as they happened, regardless of what was stored on backup tapes at the end of the day.

UPDATE:
15-dollar-mailbox-price-Metalogix has just released an email archiving product that is soooo much better than even other company’s solutions like Symantec. And their offering Microsoft Exchange email archiving at only $15 per mailbox. Microsoft Exchange Administrators use Metalogix Professional Archive Manager for Exchange to dramatically improve Exchange performance and:

* Decrease the mail store by 80% and provide an unlimited mailbox
* Cut backup and—more importantly—RESTORES by 50%
* Get one-click disaster recovery
* Respond to E-discovery requests in minutes, without IT assistance
Check out their free trial here.

Email archiving allows a company to store emails on a private server for its employees to refer back too at a later time. Many companies often will send out updates on a new procedure, which can be missed if a person that works for the company was not in the office that day. Email archiving can also be an excellent tool for training new employees on current and new procedures. Once you access the server files, it is easy to direct an employee to a certain file or old email that is in the system saving someone hours looking for it and resending it to single or multiple users.

Why is Archiving Emails Important?

One example of this is, imagine you run into a problem at work that only happens every 2 months, you remember getting the email on the proper procedure, although you have had so many emails since the update you just cannot find it. Rather than spending hours looking for one single email, often times a company server is available with file named procedures in email archives, for that problem, and you can just open, read it or you can re-email it to yourself and flag it for later use. Email archiving saves time and space on employee’s personal computer for that reason alone.

Personal email archiving may not seem to make much since when it is easy to simply store important emails in a private folder; however, many users often forget to move an email that they need until it is too late. Making auto email archiving a nice feature, it is also very useful with so many professional email users now working from home as much as from work. Smart phone users are very used to synchronizing emails at home as well as work, and email archiving those emails to home can be as much of a time saver while working at home too, although they do take up space on your personal computer.

Email archiving may not seem like it is very useful when you haven’t had a need for it, until you need an important email and find that you do not have it. The pop up from Microsoft may have convinced many users to use email archiving without knowing what email archiving can do. Now knowing you possibly still have those emails you thought you lost can now be a major cause for a sigh of relief. Go check that email archive folder and see if you can find what you are looking for, and never forget where it is again.

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Show Us Your Desk and Win the LG 23 Inch Smart Monitor

I got up last saturday morning and got an email from Nick at LG saying he dug this blog and some of the technology articles we’ve wrote. He wanted to see if I would be interested in trying out one of LG’s new Smart Monitors and doing a little review on the blog about my experiences. I have a pair of high end $700+ monitors on my desk now and was having trouble figuring out where to fit them in.

Win This LG Monitor

Win This LG Monitor

As much as I’d love to keep this LG Smart monitor for myself, I already have 2 wide screen monitors for my computers so to keep this wouldn’t be right. So I asked LG if they’d be OK if I gave it away to one of my readers.

This LG monitor has cutting-edge SMART technologies that offer top picture quality while greatly reducing eyestrain during extended use. They include an incredible Auto Brightness feature that allows them to automatically optimize their brightness and other picture settings based on the ambient light in the room and the content being viewed. LG based these settings on the unified glare rating (UGR) recommended by International Commission on Illumination to ensure a comfortable viewing experience. With a display supporting HD 1920×1080 pixels, users can enjoy an awesome experience.

Does your desk new a makeover?

Here some more features to get you excited to win this LG monitor:

  • Contrast ratio of 50,000:1 and a 2ms response time.
  • Cinema Mode creates an ideal environment for viewing video clips posted online by dimming the areas excluded in your mouse drag and helping you focus on what you are watching.
  • Energy Star rated products use less energy and save users money on their utility bills.
  • HDMI Input
  • Auto Bright Sensor – After analyzing the brightness of ambient light and the data source, the monitor signals the backlight to create an optimized brightness that reproduces a clear image without causing eye strain.
  • Live Sensor recognizes hands approaching the monitor and automatically turns on by a proximity sensor.

So here’s what I’m going to do…

I’m going to give away this 23 inch LG SMART HD Monitor and I’m only going to run this contest for a few weeks. What you need to do is:

  • Tell us how you’ll be smarter if you win this contest and fill out the form below with your mailing address and a picture of your desk where you’ll use the new monitor.
  • THEN hit me up on Twitter (@kensavage) telling everyone you just entered the contest with the hash tag #lgmonitor. Twitter example: “I just entered @kensavage contest to win a 23″ LG monitor #lgmonitor http://bit.ly/BDYv0″

At the end of this contest I’ll put the top 5-10 entries that I think need this monitor in the worst way and let everyone vote. So get in your entry and photo today.

Howard Stern and Sirius Are at the Top of Christmas Lists

Add Howard Stern to the list of Christmas gifts with a following that made them difficult, if not impossible, to find at the height of their popularity.

The aging, crass shock jock who ruled mornings on FM radio in Boston and elsewhere took his act to Sirius Satellite Radio, the number-two player in the subscription radio business, on Jan. 9 2005.

Judging by the subscriptions he now has and how much he mentions WBCN, he took a lot of Boston fans with him.

Several store managers said Sirius receivers, which cost between $50 and $300, come with a $12.95 monthly fee, and have to be plugged into a car or home stereo, are among their hottest sellers this holiday season. Stern fans and their gift-buying relatives are cleaning out shelves as quickly as they are stocked with new units.

”This is driving our revenue right now,” said Anthony Perry, a manager at Best Buy in the Fenway neighborhood. ”If we could stock a million of these, I’m sure we’d sell a million,” added general manager Gary Oliveira.

Satellite radio launched in the United States in 2001, when Sirius’ only competitor, XM Satellite Radio Inc., went on the air. Instead of listening to free radio stations subject to Federal Communications Commission decency rules, filled with commercials and marked by formulaic, repetitive playlists, satellite subscribers pay for commercial-free no-holds barred programs. Unlike traditional radio stations, which have a limited listening area, satellite stations are available anywhere in the country.

Sirius and XM offer more than 100 channels of music, news, and talk and rely heavily on celebrity hosts to drive subscriptions. XM’s latest TV ads feature rapper Snoop Dogg dropping in on Ellen DeGeneres in the company’s studios. Both host XM shows.

Sirius’ roster includes an entire channel named for rapper Eminem, and the company benefited immediately from landing Stern.

”We attribute a lot of that to the Stern effect,” said Jim Collins, a Sirius spokesman.

Stern could end up benefiting both companies, neither of which has ever had a host with such a big audience, said Stuart Kagel, an analyst with Janco Partners, a Greenwood Village, Colo., investment firm.

”The awareness of satellite radio is way above where it was before,” Stern signed with Sirius, he said. Kagel’s most recent report on Sirius projects an estimated 39 million satellite radio subscribers in the United States by 2010.

Its popularity is already growing. Of a shipment of 48 of Sirius’ least expensive receivers the Fenway Best Buy received last week, only three of the $49.99 radios remained yesterday afternoon.

As Perry was describing how quickly the radios are selling, another manager snatched one off the shelf for a customer who placed an order on the Internet and rushed in to pick it up.

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When Is It Time To Take Down The Christmas Tree?

Just as there are differing opinions on when to put your Christmas tree up, the same goes for the question of when to take down a Christmas tree.

There are several answers to the question of when to take down a Christmas tree. Some are religious based, some are superstitious and some are just plain old common sense. Whichever one you choose, you’ll find it easier to make sure your Christmas tree is taken down in a timely manner once you have a specific date to get it done by. Not that your lazy or anything…right?
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Yankee Swap Gift Ideas That Don’t Suck

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Sometimes coming up with a Yankee Swap gift idea can be difficult. It’s not always easy to know what others will like as gifts. There are two questions you can ask yourself that will make the task of coming up with Yankee Swap gift ideas easier.

The first question to ask yourself is what is the amount that you are supposed to be spending on a Yankee Swap gift and the second is would you be happy receiving your own gift as a Yankee Swap gift? By answering these two question, you will find it much easier to pick out your Yankee Swap gift this year. But for those that still can’t come up with any ideas…here are some suggestions for you. Continue reading

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3 Christmas Drinking Games For Your Holiday Party

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Nothing says Merry Christmas like a good old fashioned Christmas drinking game. If you are having a holiday party this year and want to get your guests in the Christmas mood by getting them completely drunk, any one of these Christmas drinking games will get the job done.

There are two great things about December: Holiday specials on the TV and seasonal affective depression. (OK, the second one’s not exactly great, but it does give you sorrows to drown.) And what better way to combine the two than a drinking game?

How The Grinch Stole Christmas Drinking Game

All you will need in order to play the How The Grinch Stole Christmas Drinking Game is 1) Alcohol 2) The movie:

  • Divide into two teams – The Whos From Whoville and The Grinch
  • Every time the narrator says the name of your team…drink
  • The team with the most functional players at the end of the movie is the winner

Twelve Days Of Christmas Drinking Game

This game is not for the lightweights out there. There is an opportunity to drink 364 times in this game! All you will need to play the Twelve Days of Christmas Drinking Game is 12 varieties of alcohol.

  • Each variety of alcohol represents one of the twelve days of Christmas – line em up
  • Start singing – take 1 shot on the first day then 2 shots for the second day and 1 shot for the first day etc, etc.
  • Whomever makes it the longest is the winner

A Christmas Story Drinking Game

Everyone loves the story of Ralphie and his red rider bb gun so why not pair it with alcohol this year. In the Christmas Story drinking game you will need: 1)the movie 2)your drink of choice 3)a bottle of tequila or some Harpoon Winter Warmer beer:

  • This game works best with 8 or more people because of the number of sayings you need to look out for
  • Assign each player one of the following situations to pick up on and then announce to the group:
  1. Scut Farkas and his toadie either threaten to beat someone up or actually do beat someone up
  2. Randy whines or cries
  3. Ralphie’s old man mentions the furnace
  4. Mom serves food
  5. Ralphie daydreams
  6. Ralphie mentions his secret decoder ring
  7. The next door neighbor’s dogs piss off Ralphie’s old man
  8. Someone says “you’ll shoot your eye out”
  9. Anytime anyone mentions a Red Rider BB Gun – TEQUILA!
  • Every time someone hears their assigned phrase in the movie they yell out “drink” and everyone takes a sip of their own drink
  • Each time the Red Rider BB Gun is mentioned everyone takes a shot of Tequila
  • Most functional person at the end of the movie is the winner

It should go without saying but I’ll say it anyway – please do not drink and drive. Nothing ruins a Christmas quicker than being slapped with a DUI. Please drink responsibly. Have a safe and merry Christmas.

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