waffles

• Scams & Deception

  The Anti-Scam Scam

  One of the most ingenious scams is to create an anti-scam website, and promote only “approved” products… which themselves are scams or of dubious credibility. The concept isn’t new, and shouldn’t be surprising.

  waffles February 11, 2009
• Scams & Deception

  Another Acai-Cleanse Victim

  So I was out with my kids and ex-wife, of all people. She was telling me about how her roommates, a young married couple, may split up due to financial reasons. The straw that broke the camel’s back completely floored me… the husband was fooled by the Acai/Cleanse scams seen everywhere online.

  waffles February 3, 2009
• Scams & Deception

  Scam Alert Website Lists

  Below is a list of websites that were seen advertising in early 2009, offering such promises as thousands of dollars a month at home. Many offered friendly pictures and testimonials, and virtually all were fake affiliate blogs.

  waffles January 10, 2009
• How To...

  If Your Zune Software Crashes

  My Zune software had worked fine for several weeks until I moved my hard drive into another computer. At that point I started getting an error upon startup. I looked at Microsoft’s solution which was very long, confusing, and led me to a web page with a dimmed out button and no...

  waffles August 18, 2008
• Entertainment

  Cesar Franck and the Rise of French Chamber Music

  I wrote this paper in graduate school. I recall being highly motivated by the subject, reading and researching as much for my own enjoyment as for this paper. It is dated June 1992, and received an A. Chamber music had never been an integral part of French music until the end of...

  waffles July 24, 2008
• History

  Jefferson, Thoreau, and King: Justice and Equality

  I wrote this paper during my Senior year in college for an English course. I received an A in the class, so this paper must have earned a decent grade. It is dated July 25, 1990. Justice and equality are two ideals which Americans claim as of the foundations of the United...

  waffles July 22, 2008
• Entertainment

  Stravinsky’s Symphony in Three Movements and the Classical Model

  This is another paper from graduate school, dated March 7, 1992. As with other papers I’ve posted here, the examples are missing due to limits of technology at that time. Igor Stravinsky often drew from Classical models in his composition.  Stravinsky himself admitted that when he was composing, he listened to works...

  waffles July 21, 2008
• Entertainment

  Beethoven’s Expansion of the Symphonic Coda

  This paper was originally dated 12/9/1992. And since this was 1992 and I had no scanner, my examples were merely copied on a copy machine and glued onto the blank spots – so I no longer have the actual music samples for those examples. Ludwig van Beethoven contributed a wealth of innovations...

  waffles July 21, 2008