“Staples makes it easy for customers to recycle e–waste by simply bringing their used computers, monitors, laptops, and desktop printers, faxes and all–in–ones to any U.S. Staples store.All brands are accepted, regardless of whether or not the equipment was purchased at Staples. A recycling fee of $10 per piece of large equipment is charged to cover handling, transport, product disassembly and recycling. Smaller computer peripherals such as keyboards, mice, and speakers are accepted at no charge.Equipment is bagged and sealed when received at the Staples customer service desk. The equipment is then picked up and delivered to our recycling provider Amandi Services, who uses industry–leading standards for data destruction and disassembles the equipment into its component parts for environmentally responsible recycling.”
Staples Recycles!
March 19, 2008 by Brett SchulteI was watching Star Trek: The Original Series – The Tholian Web when I realized:
March 18, 2008 by Brett SchulteHow much more fun the internet has become …
The precedinging was the text suggested by “Joost”. It is pretty neat. More soon. 
To Blog Or Not To Blog
March 10, 2008 by Brett SchulteI’m admittedly a bit late to the blogging game, because honestly, I didn’t think I had anything interesting to write about. Quit nodding your head. It’s only recently I’ve realized that I do have observations about technology and life that someone else might find interesting. I’m guessing that most of my posts will come in bursts of productivity rather than a steady stream of prose. But that’s OK, it’s mostly for me anyway. :)
McDonald’s WiFi
March 10, 2008 by Brett Schulte
I’m posting this morning from a McDonald’s in Studio City, California. While ordering my breakfast (“#2″ – Egg McMuffin) I asked the cashier “Does this McDonald’s have internet?” which met with a blank stare. She turned to her manager and rattled off something in spanish after which they both looked at me and shook their heads. ”No Internet here” they told me in unison. Uh huh. I cranked up my trusty BlackBerry 8320 and sure enough “ATTwifi” showed up so I hauled out the MacBook and logged on. It’s interesting to note that there are no power outlets in McDonald’s dining rooms making extended surfing difficult if not impossible which is probably exactly what they want
Edit: I was wrong – there are plugs they’re just hidden in the ceiling!
Yahoo Spam
March 9, 2008 by Brett SchulteWhat is it with Yahoo and spam? The overwhelming majorty of spam and spim (instant message spam) I get is through my Yahoo accounts. Why?
Like many geeks I own my name at all the major free mail providers including Yahoo, Gmail, AOL, Hotmail, etc. I don’t actually use any of them on a daily basis because I have my own domain but I keep them for testing. They’re all consolidated into an account that I do check so I do see what goes into them.
I’ve owned all the accounts for more or less the same amount of time and haven’t really used any of the addresses “publicly” so I can only assume that the problem is their filtering just sucks. Given the resources of a company like Yahoo and the fact that their brand was built on their email offering I’m puzzled as to why they haven’t addressed this.
Does anyone know why Yahoo seems to suffer from spam leakage more than other providers?
