Archive for the ‘News’ Category
Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Well, this is simply amazing. The iPhone 3G is being released tomorrow at 8am local time across the globe, but early this morning it was noted by the Mac geeks that the software was actually on the Apple servers today and available to download. So, if you feel ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
So it's been a big past week for Microsoft. Last Friday, June 27 was the official last day of Bill Gates' employment as a full timer, and today, June 30 is the official semi-retirement of Windows XP.
Bill Gates was one of the founders of Microsoft way back at the ...
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Saturday, April 19th, 2008
Two teens killed, two others hurt in fiery Newark crash
Two teenagers were killed in Newark early this morning when the car they were traveling in at 100 mph flipped off a ramp, hit a wall and caught fire, authorities said.
The victims, both 17, were southbound in a 2008 Toyota Solara, ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Almost exactly one year ago I posted the following:
Baseball 2007 is officially underway and the Mets won their season opener by beating the Cardinals 6-1!
Let’s go Mets!
Fast forward to today... well, technically yesterday as it is 1:44am...
Baseball 2008 is officially underway and the Mets won their season opener ...
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
I'm not really that big a fan of football, but I must say that last night's Superbowl was fairly nerve-wracking.
Yesterday started just like every other Sunday... tiring and early. My church does three gatherings every week and I oversee the tech stuff for all of them. ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
The news broke today that Amazon has bought Audible.com. I think this is pretty exciting as I do love both of these companies and am interested in seeing where this leads.
I hate going to brick and mortar stores. That's one of the reasons why I love Amazon so ...
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Saturday, January 5th, 2008
It seems that the spammers and phishers are making their way over to Facebook in order to wreck another perfectly good website and make it a nightmare for the users.
For those who, don't know, Phishing is the when people attempt to steal your passwords, or credit card numbers, or other ...
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Why is it that people like to talk and talk and talk before they know the full details of a situation? I've been thinking about the topic of "rumors" and "gossip" the past few days as they have been quite prevelant in my life.
It started last Friday. I ...
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Friday, October 5th, 2007
Don't you hate when your Nana just spontaneously combusts?
Danny Williams, an iPod nano owner claims that his Nano burst into flames while it was in his pocket. He claims that there were chest-high flames emanating from the malfunctioning iPod, but luckily he was saved by a piece of paper ...
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Monday, August 20th, 2007
Three days ago, August 17, was the 25th anniversary of the Compact Disc. Read the history of the CD here.
In a previous blog post I mentioned that my parents, when they bought me my first CD player when I was a child, also bought me two CD's: Carman's Radically ...
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