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Revealing the Poser Behind the Honor

April 5, 2011

I’m a junior in high school, and as most of you reading would know or remember, junior year is almost always the most stressful year of high school.  With soccer, dance, tennis, 2 hours of homework nightly, and trying to maintain a 3.whatever GPA and I am desperately trying to find impressive attributes to add [...]

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AT&T – Help Finally Comes, 5 calls and 5 Days Later.

February 9, 2011

Operations Efficiency Doesn’t Equal Customer Satifaction As a shareholder, I am all for efficiency.  But, as a customer, I think many companies have pushed it too far.  Take AT&T.  Their entire business is built on communications, but try talking to a human in customer service–especially a human that is empowered to help you.  It’s impossible.  [...]

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Personal Internet Security 2011 – An Invasion of Your Computer

January 18, 2011
Personal Internet Security 2011 – An Invasion of Your Computer

Warning! Personal Internet Security 2011 is classified as a rogue anti virus program, which means that it doesn’t provide proven anti-virus protection, but instead, reports false system security threats. This fake security program uses deceptive sales tactics to scare up sales from confused users.  It sends a pop up screen that alerts you to all [...]

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