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On the Blackberry Dilemna: A possible solution

Posted on 2013/10/02 by Percy Kwong — No Comments ↓

Blackberry is in deep trouble. They’re laying off employees and hemorrhaging money. The chances of a white knight riding in to save the day is well.. Not going to happen. It’ll be more like a Vulture acquisition of its patents.…

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Posted in All, Android, General Observations, Lateral Thinking, Linux, Smart Thinking, Tout

Converting your Instance Store AMI to an EBS-Backed AMI

Posted on 2013/03/22 by Percy Kwong — No Comments ↓

In my infinite wisdom, I decided to backup my Mailserver which is an Instance Store based AMI. It should have been a completely straight-forward task, but the reality is, nothing ever is. Somewhere along the EC2-Bundle-Vol process, the rsync process…

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Posted in All, EC2, Hosting, Linux, Tout

Saving The Post Office.. Just another Thought Exercise.

Posted on 2013/02/12 by Percy Kwong — No Comments ↓

As you all know by now, I’m a thinker. I get wrapped up in finding solutions to relatively complex problems. Not just technology, but business in general. The Post Office conundrum has been weighing on my mind for a few…

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Posted in Activism, All, Consulting Advice, General Observations, Hope, Smart Thinking, Tout

How I saved a Few Thousand Dollars this Year (and help me get rid of the banner ads on the site).

Posted on 2012/12/14 by Percy Kwong — No Comments ↓

It would seem that quite a few people have commented to me that they like my blog and the one thing that annoys them (and me) is the ads. I personally don’t like banner ads. I think they’re annoying. So…

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Posted in All, Miscellany, Recommended by Me, Saving Money, Smart Thinking, Tips and Tricks, Tout

Solution: Syncing Your Android Phone Data in Near Time to your computer (Real Time Backups)

Posted on 2012/11/02 by Percy Kwong — 1 Comment ↓

So, You’ve got an Android Phone. As many hardcore users or anybody who takes lots of pics or just generates quite a bit of data on their phone knows, It’s just a matter of time before your phone is lost,…

So I finally figured out exactly how to save REAL Money on Gas and Diesel – I thought I’d share. – The Solution

Posted on 2012/09/29 by Percy Kwong — No Comments ↓

I live in Florida. I drive a gas guzzler (well, that’s an understatement). The thing that kills me is it costs me $104.00-ish to fill my tank. Now that works out to be quite a bit of scratch if you…

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Posted in All, Doing the right thing, energy-efficiency, environment, General Observations, Money Saving, Tips and Tricks, Tout