Friday, November 26, 2010

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Aetna Healthfund auto accident coverage

- Called on 11/23/2010 at 3:22pm
- Found out there is no special treatment for medical injuries due to a car accident.
- Only additional thing they do is they give you a questionnaire to basically check and see if you have any non-Aetna insurers that should be billed first.
- 3rd party insurance kicks in (mine or other person's) before Aetna kicks in
- Will need denial or exhaustion of coverage letter before Aetna kicks in from 3rd party insurer.

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Future flash purchases

- Umbrella adapter
- Male/Male PC connector (9' minimum)
- Possibly cold shoe adapter as well

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Win7 install info

- Downloaded all Win7 drivers fro all EVGA components ahead of time:
* Audio
* Network
* Chipset

BIOS settings
* SATA mode: [RAID]
* JMB362 SATA contorller [auto]
* JMB363 SATA/PATA controller [auto]
* JMB363 Mode [RAID mode]
* JMB362 Mode [RAID mode]

Power Management
* ACPI enabled
* ACPI Suspend type [S3/STR]
* USB KB wake up [disabled]

Monday, November 8, 2010

Adobe RSRG offset

After a phone call with Adobe accounting I figured out what was going on. When my Restricted Stock Shares vested:
- Adobe listed the full value of the vested restricted shares as income on my paycheck statement.
- Adobe then paid taxes by selling some of those vested shares (so I don't end up with a tax surprise at the end of the year).
- However, if they stopped there Adobe's finance system would have generated a check for me for the balance (i.e., value of options - taxes withheld > 0). But of course that "income" is listed for tax reporting purposes only, the shares now in my control actually hold the value. So to avoid having the system create an incorrect paycheck they create an artificial "RSRG Offset" item that is listed as a deduction. The RSRG Offset is exactly the net left over after subtracting the taxes withheld from the value of the shares that vested.

In other words the formula is:
Value of options at vest - taxes withheld = RSRG offset.

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Vinyl base molding is what I need to purchase

Grocery stores for key pantry staples

Whole Foods
- Maldon sea salt
- Muir Glen canned tomatoes

Nob Hill
- Perichetty black pepper corns (McCormick premium brand)
- Swanson Organic Free Range chicken broth

- King Arthur flour at Whole Foods and Safeway
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Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Cold symptoms are due to our body, not the virus itself causing damage

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/05/opinion/05ackerman.html?src=me&ref=homepage

Friday, October 1, 2010

Inside analysis on why Wesabe failed and Mint won

http://blog.precipice.org/why-wesabe-lost-to-mint

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Free credit card swiper for iPhone - Square

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/30/technology/personaltech/30pogue.html?ref=homepage&src=me&pagewanted=all

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Free tool to test what people remember about a website

http://www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2010/09/24/24readwriteweb-get-a-clue-what-do-people-remember-about-you-3556.html?src=me&ref=technology

Monday, September 13, 2010

To create a copy of a Gliffy diagram:

Copy the whole wiki page, and then change the WML code to point the Gliffy reference to the current page's attachment. Copying wiki page also copies attachments, but the new duplicate page still refers to the old attachment (and that reference is now invalid since it's not a part of the current page). So by changing the WML code to refer to new page's attachment all is well and the original document and Gliffy are not effected.

Anther vaccine autism study

Another study, this time showing that Mercury exposure is not tied to Autism risk. here

Friday, August 6, 2010

Tutorial on how to count names

http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-1043792.html

Based on zip code example

Friday, July 30, 2010

So do I or do I not get sun exposure...vitamin d...man

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/27/health/27brod.html?src=me&ref=homepage

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Bob's custom monitor calibration steps

Dell monitor - set right for printing:
- Set brightness to 45
- Then do monitor calibration
- Then adjust brightness to match print output

Thursday, June 17, 2010