Archive for August, 2008
Sunday, August 31st, 2008
Windows Messenger is one of those annoying things that was once a useful tool but has now become more a source of instant message spam than anything else. The trick however is to get rid of the thing, preferably without having to haul your system to a tech or ...
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
I was checking out the "Yahoo! Buzz" site for the first time a little while ago and ran across an article that talked about the fact that more Chinese visited the official Beijing2008.cn Olympic website than Americans.
After taking a look at the site I know the reason. In fact, ...
Posted in Internet, Programming, Websites, opinion | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
This is almost funny. It seems that a while back the city of Seattle had a really brilliant idea that involved spending $5 million dollars on some automated toilets. The idea was to take care of the city's need for more public restrooms without having to spend a ...
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
Way back in '85 when I got my first computer I knew that there had to be a way to use it to make money. While I was going about life pretty much the same as most folks, from one day to the next, I would occasionally revisit the ...
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
Remember when..
...A ten megabyte hard drive was considered monstrous (and expensive too!)
... "floppy" disks were actually flexible
... Those same "floppy" disks were 5.25 inches and you could only store data on one side of them.
... "640K of ram is enough for anybody"
... The only "color monitor" choices were amber, green ...
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
I just ran across an item on TorrentFreak that gives some hope for file sharing enthusiasts.
It seems that the German judicial system has been overrun by various anti-P2P efforts to prosecute anybody that shares a music track or movie with somebody else. As part of an effort that I ...
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
The EFF has announced that the ninth circuit appeals court has ruled in the Hepting v. AT&T case that the case is not to be delayed (this time) and is to be sent back to district court where it's supposed to proceed (though the case could well be old enough ...
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
It's not much of a surprise I suppose that when it comes to tech type gifts, most people today would rather receive a new phone, a new computer, an xbox 360 or one of those Japanese things that people are raving about so much these days.
While stuff like this is ...
Posted in Electronics, Entertainment, Hardware, Misc, Phones, opinion | Comments Off
Thursday, August 21st, 2008
You've heard it a zillion times I'm sure (I know I have!) that "America is an overweight nation" and I think that to a large degree it's true. There's more and more people walking around carrying more weight than they should be. Naturally, this means that there's more ...
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
According to a news item on SFGate, George Lucas is not just considering the possibility of another in the series of successful movies, he's actually researching ideas looking for just the right thing for Jones to go looking for this time.
You don't however, need to rush off just yet to ...
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