An Authur C. Clarke Quote

“This is the first age that’s ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.”

Authur C. Clarke

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Play Anti-Phishing Phil

It’s a game developed by the computer people at Carnegie Mellon University. It focuses on phishing and other internet schemes.

link: Anti-Phishing Phil

There is disagreement in the security community about how effective educational programs are in curtailing phishing. – My approach on …continue reading

From the World Cup to Beijing 2008

In less than a year, the women’s soccer teams will reconvene in Beijing for the 2008 Olympics. Based on the performance on the U.S. women’s team at the World Cup, there is work to be done. The U.S. women’s team won the consolation match against …continue reading

Free Sales Leads

100 free sales leads for every salesperson in your company? Maybe you caught the commercial out of the corner of your eye. I was kicking back, watching the NY Giants battle the Philadelphia Eagles on NBC in glorious HD. It was in the second half, …continue reading

Should My Friend Buy A Dell Or HP Laptop?

He is looking for just a normal multi tasking laptop to have for like games and movies and stuff. He prefers a gig of ram and maybe a duel core processor but nothing to fancy. So do any of you have any personal experiences with …continue reading

Monks Find Support on Facebook

There have been discussions concerning the social apathy of the internet generation. Questions have been raised about why the people are not protesting and marching on the streets over a wide spectrum of social issues.

It may be that the internet generation is active …continue reading

Backup Your Non-Digital Pictures

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To go along with my other posts on keeping your digital pictures safe and backing up your books / documents, here’s another post on backing up – but with a twist. This time …continue reading

Someone Had Better Fix The PDF Exploit!

 

Available for almost every operating system in use today – Reader is a format that works!

No, I haven’t been exploited. I feel fairly protected with the software I have running on my machine (which effectively removes a good amount of …continue reading

Top 3 – How to Pick a University.

I never went through this myself as I had grand plans to join the RAF at 16 as an apprentice electronics technician. I was amply qualified, I sailed through their tests but (as I later found out from a neighbour) I was only offered a …continue reading

From The Right Royal Waste Of Time Department

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As the title states – this is one of those sites that rates as being a total waste of time but immensely addictive and enjoyable. if you are looking to waste some time, then you could do worse than trying …continue reading

The IRS Did Not Make an Error

The IRS is not sending you an email because it made a mistake. The IRS is not sending you an online survey whereby you can make some money by participating. The IRS does not need your help in an online fraud investigation. The list goes …continue reading

We Don’t Need An FCC

The FCC is a waste of money and energy. We don’t elect the members yet they have us by the gonads when it comes to the public airwaves. I could go on and on about what a poor excuse the FCC is as a governmental …continue reading

"Bricked" – What Is It ?

I got an email from a friend this morning who has been reading about the Apple iPhones and the controversy surrounding some iPhones being ‘bricked’. Which made me wonder how many people know what the term ‘bricked’ actually means?

Normally the term is used to …continue reading

Germany Wins the Women’s World Cup

Germany defeated an exceptionally dangerous team from Brazil. The score was 2 – 0, with Brazil having the advantage of possession time. The German defense was stellar. Throughout the World Cup tournament – playing six games – Germany did not allow a single goal. Against …continue reading

For Anyone Who Ever Played Fable

This video says what all wanted say after we played this game and realized it was a big disappointment. Not that is was a bad game by any means but it was a disappointment.

warning there is cursing in this video.

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Hope Solo: Dumped by the U.S. Women’s Team

Greg Ryan, the coach of the U.S. Women’s Soccer team has spoke about reconciliation in the matter of Hope Solo. The reconciliation came in terms of retribution. Simply put, Hope Solo was dumped – exiled:

“SHANGHAI — Hope Solo, the unbeaten U.S. goalkeeper who was …continue reading

Navy Considers Millennials “Alien Life Force”

According to Wired Blogs Danger Room, the US Navy projects megaproblems recruiting the “MySpace Generation.”  In addition to pointing out that they’re spoiled rotten [my words] the report also says that recruiters might find them a bit different: “This is not about just a …continue reading

Bummed Out About Torrentspy?

So was I. I used that site for everything (legal, of course) and as you know the Web site has been shut down to us Americans, if you don’t know the site was pressured by the movie industry and other powerful people to take the …continue reading

Help Make Ubuntu Better

The Ubuntu guys released beta version 7.10. This is of course still in beta form so it has a few bugs here and there. For the first time Ubuntu was able to install my wireless cards drivers! Also my network printer works wonderfully with the …continue reading

In Case You Missed This Over On “Windows Fanatics”

Today’s my birthday (None of your business, you young whippersnapper!) and Michele, following our tradition of “useful” gifts and her experience with my well-known love of gadgets that go “blink” in the night, gave me a flashlight. She knew I’d been mourning the ARC AAA …continue reading

Microsoft Should Abandon Vista?

Over at C/Net a writer by the name of Don Reisinger has written a scathing article in which he documents why he believes that Microsoft should abandon Vista. Some of what Don says has been batted around the Internet ever since Vista was released such …continue reading

The Cost of Content

In an article called “The word farms of the web“, the Guardian discusses a disturbing trend: more and more Made For AdSense (MFA) sites are being published that “post content optimised purely to drive ad traffic rather than having any value of its own”.

So Satisfying

There is nothing so satisfying as when you see points you’ve made being re-iterated by someone in the mainstream media – never mind you said it first, or that is has been some time since you said it.

I refer to the story on itwire.com, …continue reading

Ubuntu 7.10 Beta Released

The folks over at Ubuntu have released their beta version 7.10 for testing. On their site they state the following:

The Ubuntu developers are hurrying to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software that the open source and free software communities have to offer. …continue reading

Broadcom Releases Single Chip 802.11n Solution

The announcement of the chip which is at once very small and claimed to be very fast will be, barring any unforeseen problems, an amazing and inexpensive way to gain high speed connectivity for most computers.

The claimed actual throughput is 200Mbps, which is startling …continue reading