Matthew Kitchin

Title says it all. Tooth is out, and we had a physics lesson.

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From my Wife:
I was at the Target in Cool Springs, TN this morning and had a poor experience with the lady at the customer service desk. I also believe she is one of the managers, as I have spoken with her before. In prior experiences she was very helpful, but definitely not today. I was returning two items and purchasing some items as well. I used my drivers license for the returns. She was extremely rude when I presented my items to purchase and she proceeded to ring up each item separately as well as have me pay for each separately. I then watched her turn to another Target employee and roll her eyes. I quickly responded and told her I was sorry to cause her any hassle, which she rudely replied it's fine. She was very abrupt and rude throughout our entire interaction. I apologized again before I left and told her she might try and be kinder to her customers. This has definitely changed my feelings on shopping at the Cool Springs store from now on.

If the title means nothing to you, then ignore this.
If you have trouble connecting Outlook 2003 to Exchange 2010 (don't ask why I have to do this), see this perfect write up on how to fix it. http://www.howexchangeworks.com/2009/09/cant-connect-outlook-2003-to-exchange.html

This one had been annoying me for years. Every now and then you want to out a image or picture in the body of an email. Most mail clients can do it. Gmail can't (couldn't). There are countless write ups on hack ways to do this that take more time than sending through the postal service would. It is actually very simple! While logged into Gmail, click on the 'Labs' tab under settings. You can now see an huge list of new features you can enable on your Gmail account. Some of them may not work perfectly, but this one does. Scroll down until you find 'Inserting images' near the bottom. Enable it and save your changes. That's it! You now have a button on your toolbar when composing a message. It allows you quickly insert a picture in an email. I know many times simply including it as an attachment is fine, but there are times when having it show up in the body of an email can be very helpful. Now you know how to insert a picture in the body of a Gmail email.

I bought a 32LH20 32" LG TV in July. We were finally making the lunge into HD after our small bedroom TV committed suicide. It actually jumped off a dresser during one of our spontaneous bedroom reorganizations. I got it all mounted perfectly on the wall, cables neatly hidden, etc. Getting Comcast HD to work with it properly was a month long disaster, but that is another story. They had to re-cable half my neighborhood. Once everything was supposedly fixed there, I fired it up. IT was awful! On some channels, the sound and video were a full second out of sync. I assumed Comcast was to blame, but we seemed to be able to disprove that theory. I finally called LG in August. They were immediately very interested in the issue and tool down every detail about where I live, what service I was on, model number of the cable box, what type of HDMI cables I was using, etc. Long story short, one month later there is a LG tech at my house with a firmware upgrade. He upgraded from 4.0.x (might have been 4.1.X) to 4.3.X. It is perfect! I now have achieved HD nirvana.He said this instance was the worst he had ever seen when I showed him out of sync it was. He also said this seemed to be an issue that occurs on newer LG TVs hooked up to Comcast HD using HDMI. He has a service release bulletin that listed hundreds of models. My TV was manufactured in May, and he said the firmware update came out on 8/20. How cool is it that..

1. My TV can be fixed with a firmware upgrade
2. LG came to my house to do it for free

I thought for sure they would tell me to deal with it or return it to Best Buy. I'm an LG customer for life. There were a lot more details as to what all the problems were, but I figured this might be enough for someone to stumble across if they are having the same issue.

Got this annoying message when you try to start Automatic updates?
"Automatic Updates Service: The system cannot find the file specified"
I had spent several hours on a friends laptop that had been ravaged by viruses and spyware. This article helped me get Automatic updates working again.
http://www.burchwords.com/archives/1240

Check this out:
http://www.blackberryfaq.com/index.php/Using_BlackBerry_As_Modem
You can use your blackberry to connect your laptop to the internet. Pretty cool. I can now turn in my Verizon card.