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, ...
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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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