Pikes Peak Gets New Bigfoot Sign

Posted on March 10, 2012 by intoit
bigfoot road sign for Pikes Peak

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Откъде да купя иконаIf you have ever taken the circular drive up to the summit of Pikes Peak near Colorado Springs, CO (USA), you would unmistakeably come across an interesting sign.

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Cable should be forced to stick with packaged programming.

Posted on January 10, 2012 by intoit

After years of successful lobbying against the potential for FCC to mandate an a la carte video offering, wasting countless tax payer dollars and untold millions of cable subscriber fees the business of cable television is supposedly scrambling to recover … Continue reading →

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Potential Sighting – North of Waverly, IA

Posted on December 23, 2011 by intoit
Thicket of trees near Waverly Iowa

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CB was picking mushrooms with dog, noticed a number of deer in the area but most unusual was the fact that the deer (while they could easily see him) were not looking at him but rather in another direction (thought … Continue reading →

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Bremer Count Fair Should Seek “Quality” not “Quantity”

Posted on December 23, 2011 by intoit

As the Bremer County Fair nears 140 years of age, an effort is underway to seek potential relocation the fair from its cozy, sheltered location in the center of Waverly (the county seat) to a featureless flat ground provided by a farmland just west of the city. The primary motivator for the desired relocation is to permit the fair to grow even bigger. Continue reading →

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CSG Systems – One of the few remaining service bureaus

Posted on March 12, 2009 by intoit

CSGS recent announcement of it winning the remaining portion of billing services from Charter Communications (CHTR)

Currently CHTR splits its billing services for its 5.5mm subscribers 60/40 between Convergys (CVG) ICOMS (Integrated Communications Operations Management System) solution and CSGS. CHTR is consolidating solely under CSGS for all billing services starting 2010. CHTR is listed as CSGS’s 4th largest customer representing around 10% of its revenue and signing the remaining half of CHTR billing needs is believed should generate as much as a 8-10% increase in CSGS revenue in the coming year. Continue reading →

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The 2008 Flood is Over

Posted on January 26, 2009 by intoit

The flood of 2008 was a memorable event. If you pretty much follow the Cedar River down through Iowa (which starts in the central NE part of the state, down through SE part and on into the Mississippi river), you will see many cities seeing 500 year flood damage including some of the biggest cities: Iowa City, Cedar Rapids, Waterloo/Cedar Falls, etc. In all, the state had somewhere around 50,000+ homes affected. Continue reading →

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Who’s Hiring and Who’s Not: Results of a completed survey

Posted on January 23, 2009 by intoit

With all the pull backs in hiring, it is getting hard to find companies with any openings. So, out of curiosity, I made a list of 33 companies I’ve been asked recently about and ranked them by their perspective job openings versus their number of current employees. The chart below is the top ranked companies in my list. For those of you concerned about “American Jobs”, I added a column that describes the of job openings for this company that are on American soil as opposed to overseas. These companies look to be expanding or at least investing in new product development. Continue reading →

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Who Would Steal a Garbage Can?

Posted on January 7, 2009 by intoit

After last week’s snow storm came and went, I found my garage door frozen shut. So, rather than digging it out, I elected to place this week’s empty garbage can (a newer Rubbermaid dark green can with wheels) outside the door and wait for either some warm weather or the weekend before I return the can to its normal resting spot. However in spite of this weekend’s warm weather I was unable to return the garbage can to my garage“ not because I couldn’t now get the door open but rather because it is now missing. Someone decided it was better to walk across my back yard and steal my garbage can rather than go buy their own. Continue reading →

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Remote Disk Imaging – OS Disk Isolation

Posted on November 2, 2007 by intoit

As the risks of running a compromised personal computer (PC) becomes increasingly more expensive to individual computer users (from an identity management and administrative perspective), the day is fast approaching where every computer will come standard with not one, but two hard drives. One drive for the operating system (OS), and yet another for customer applications and data. Continue reading →

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Sharing the wealth of future broadband services

Posted on October 25, 2007 by intoit

It doesn’t take a genius to figure out how that selling broadband services is big business. But the landscape of selling broadband services in the future will look vastly different than it does currently or even in the past. While the use of standards has ignited broadband services growth, it has also fueled the success of patent pools as well as the business of inventing or buying patents that read on these standards or potential future standards. Continue reading →

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