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Monday, November 10th, 2008
It's a long established fact that, in spite of whatever "fitness revolution" is going on, most people simply don't like to exercise. Why? Partly because it involves a lot of physical effort that few of us are really all that interested in and partly because, to be blunt, ...
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Saturday, November 8th, 2008
Weird Al Yankovic can now join the ranks of the censored. Not over anything political that I've ever heard of but rather over the lyrics to one of his songs.
That's right, MTV has "bleeped" parts of the song 'Don't Download This Song'. Specificaly, the portions bleeped were the names ...
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Sunday, October 26th, 2008
Recently I posted about having entered a video in a contest. However I wasn't alone, my wife also entered. Her video was considerably different from mine.
I went for using some special effects and what I think is a hilarious ending while she had a great song and a ...
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
EA’s CEO John Riccitiello spoke recently at the Dow Jones/Nielsen Media and Money Conference and claimed that 99.8% of gamers don't care about DRM. Judging from the growing dissatisfaction with any form of DRM on the part of a heck of a lot of people of the the last ...
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
I haven't done a whole lot of contest entering in my days, mostly because the odds were so long that winning wasn't even remotely an option that could be considered real. Then again, even I will get a lottery ticket once in a while because while it's true that ...
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Saturday, October 18th, 2008
Not long ago Wal-Mart decided to send out an email telling music buying customers that they were going to shut down their DRM servers. This meant that DRM infected music would very likely stop working after that date and the only cure that users had would be to burn ...
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Realnetworks new RealDVD program has been causing quite a stir which has now landed in the courtrooms. Hollywood in general, movie studios (can the MPAA be far away? I doubt it.) are all trying to stop the sale of this software that allows people to copy the contents of ...
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
There's been some great combinations over the years. Abbot and Costello, Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon, Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz, Finicky cats in commercials for cat supplies and their favorite foods, spam cheese & tomato sandwiches, ice cream & chocolate sauce, Shatner & Nimoy, Denny Crane & Alan ...
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Recently I've decided that I was going to be changing the way I do the occasional website review. I decided that instead of settling with just writing about a site that I would also do a video review in which I could point out the positive and negative points ...
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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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