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Thursday, August 28, 2008 10:56 AM

Christmas in August......sort of....

Back in January I posted about a friend of mine, Robbie Sparks, who was doing some writing, acting and filming. He recently emailed me about a film contest sponsored by the Florida Times newspaper that he has submitted an entry for. His piece is called
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 11:31 AM

My Twitter Badge....

If you scroll down my blog, on the left side you will see what I have added a Twitter Badge that displays tweets that I  send/receive. Problem is, no matter what kind of tweaks I make to the code on my end or through Twitters Badge Builder, it never
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 10:17 AM

The Worlds Smallest PC?

It runs Red Hat but I am ignoring that. The Space Cube is an interesting little device ( Link to Manufacturer ). Check out the pictures of the Space Cube next to a cell phone to get an idea of how small it really is. The article linked above makes it
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Saturday, August 23, 2008 9:36 AM

One of my favorite weekends of the year.....

....is this weekend. Why? It's Fantasy Football Draft Weekend! I have played Fantasy Football for most of the last 13 years. I didn't play last year and it left me feeling hollow. If you have never played you probably can't understand. If you have played
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Friday, August 22, 2008 8:00 PM

Texas is flippin' hot! and Letterboxing....

Wow!    I can't believe I lived in the Dallas area for 20+ years and that I missed it when I moved. Let me rephrase - I do miss Dallas...I just don't miss triple digit heat indexes and 95% humidity. I arrived yesterday at about 6am when
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008 8:48 AM

Twitterfone....

I managed to get a beta invite (I don't think it is that hard...) to TwitterFone and I just sent my first voice tweet. The service lets me dial a number on my mobile phone and basically leave a voice mail that gets converted to text and tweeted through
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Monday, August 18, 2008 8:10 AM

Find out if pictures are copyrighted....

I suppose I have walked a fine line with the pictures I have used in my blog. As I write I may think to myself, "Hey!  A picture of 'X' would be good for this post!". I then open up my search engine type a few words in and then I have all
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Friday, August 15, 2008 11:20 PM

Peaks and Valleys....

From a work productivity perspective, this has been a nightmarish week for me. As I am sure most of you reading this who are in the tech industry know, when technology goes bad it can ruin an otherwise good day. As my previous blog posts have noted, I
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008 11:46 PM

This blog post is faked....

Subtitled - R.I.P. Rob Pilatus With the recent news reports that the Chinese placed a different girl on stage than who actually sang , and reports that some of the fireworks for the opening ceremonies were digitally inserted , when I ran across an article
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Friday, August 08, 2008 7:02 PM

Up in smoke, absolutely modulus, and how I am not going to write you a love song....

I grew up partly in the 70's. Every now and then a radio station would play a snippet of a Cheech and Chong album. My mom snuck me in to see Up in Smoke when I was 13. I have seen all of the movies and used to have many of the C and C albums. I have always
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008 11:01 AM

There is a reason it's called "RAM"....

....because that must be how it has to be installed. I have a laptop that I am not particularly fond of. This happens to be my second of the exact same model. The first had some serious hardware issues resulting in me swapping for my current laptop. Again...same
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Tuesday, August 05, 2008 11:22 PM

What News sites do you read?

I want to expand my horizons. I have spent years reading MSNBC.com articles. I like the format of the site and the reporting is what I would expect from any news organization. I also watch SlashDot and Techmeme. I am not giving up on those sites. I just
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Sunday, August 03, 2008 10:43 PM

Ker-blah....

Nothing particularly exciting to post about today. Lots of busy work around the house. The peak of the day is right now as I write this and load up the new Zune with some tunes. Actually, I did build two dog beds. One for Shadow, my friend Jamie's pug
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Saturday, August 02, 2008 1:26 PM

2, 4, 8, 16, 32.....

64! I have been telling IT Pros in my audience for about 2.5 years now that I gave 32 bit CPU's about a 5 yr life span. I predicted that by 2010, all consumer PC's would be 64 bit and consumers would have multi-terabyte storage capabilities and 8 gigs
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Saturday, August 02, 2008 12:18 PM

Black Holes can be beautiful too.....

...at least the device that might be able to create one is. I just ran across this article on SlashDot which in turn points to another article that shows some pretty fantastic pictures of the CERN Large Hadron Collider. lest you think that science is
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