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I recently started following a blog by Terri Gruca from our local WCCO news station. Terri’s subject on making your money stretch is quite popular in this tight economy.

On May 31st Terri blogged about Restaurant.com and how you can purchase a $25 Gift Certificate to eat out for only $10. Our family loves to eat out and save money so of course I checked it out! I wasn’t expecting to find any resaurants around where we live since we’re about an hour North of Minneapolis and are in a very small town.

To my suprise there were a few restaurants that popped up when I put in our zip code, including Peake’s at Pebble Creek restaurant, on a golf course nearby. So last weekend I purchased the $25 Gift Certificate for $10 and we headed out for supper. Restaurant.com accepted my payment online and quickly provided a Gift Certificate to print out.

We were seated at a table next to the windows overlooking a beautiful golf course. I told the waitress right away about my gift certificate half expecting her to not accept it or the level of service to drop when she saw it. Once again we were pleasantly suprised with excellent service and a great dinner.

Our daughter had a pizza off the children’s menu, my wife had a House Tenderloin Fillet and I had a New York Strip grilled to perfection. The portions were generous and the food was superb!

You’ll never believe how much it cost…

I had to do a double-take when I saw the bill for $22.75, and that included the 18% gratuity! Of course you have to add back in the cost of the Gift Certificate that cost $10. So the grand total for a fabulous dining experience was $32.75.

Thank you Terri for the great post, thank you Restaurant.com for a great service and thank you Peake’s at  Pebble Creek for a great evening!

If you’re ever in the Becker, MN area, be sure to check it out Peake’s. I hear they have a great Sunday buffet. Maybe we’ll see you there.

Regards,

-Bert

AV-Comparatives.org just published the results of their most recent Anti-Virus testing. They tested 16 different Anti-Virus program’s ability to proactively detect malware threats. New viruses, trojans and other malware are being created at an alarming rate of 1,000 – 2,000 new threats every day!

This recent test is important because it tested the ability of the anti-virus programs to detect malware that hadn’t been added to the program’s virus definitions files. AV-Comparatives took 11,509 new threat samples found in a period of one week and only used the on-demand function of the various programs to see how many threats were detected.

The only two programs to get the highest rating of Advanced+ were Avira and Eset’s Nod32. AVG, Mcafee, Microsoft and AVK received the second hightest rating of Advanced.

You can read the full report at AV-Comparatives.org.

If you’re looking for free anti-virus protection Avira and AVG can’t be beat. And if you insist on paying for anti-virus software Eset’s Nod32 is a great option.

If you think you have a virus on your computer get a free scan at http://www.eset.com/onlinescan/.

Happy Computing!

-Bert