The biggest problem I heard about Windows Vista was that it broke people’s old programs. No one wanted to change their lives around by purchasing new printers, peripherals, or software to do the work that they had gotten done with few problems in XP. Here comes Windows 7 and it has not promised any new [...]
When it was announced that the Wii would have downloadable titles from past systems, I thought that was great. I thought it might be fun to play those old Nintendo games without having to keep an old console around. When I got around to playing those old NES games, it wasn’t quite as much fun [...]
College football has, since the mid 1930s, relied on polls to determine who would be crowned the national champion. The biggest of those polls was the Associated Press poll, a popularity contest that was voted on by sports writers. In 1997 college football went with the Bowl Championship Series, or BCS, as a way to [...]
TextPlus bills itself as a free way to text message with a single person or with groups. The application says it is compatible with either the iPhone or the iPod Touch and requires either a 3G, Edge, or WiFi connection in order to work. The application is free and they claim that they are able [...]
The Associated Press released a photo of a United States Marine who was wounded by a rocket propelled grenade during operations in Afghanistan. The Marine, Lance Corporal Joshua Bernard, would later pass away from his injuries. The controversy of whether or not to release photos of seriously injured or dying soldiers on the battlefield is [...]
A lot has been made recently about an upcoming video broadcast by the President to millions of school children in order to talk about goals and the importance of education. Some conservative groups and conservative commentators have even gone so far as to push forward the idea of a national day to keep your kids [...]
The National Football League recently announced a new ban on the social media site Twitter 90 minutes before a game starts and continuing until after the press conferences have been concluded. They have not given a clear reason for this but one can assume that it has a lot to do with protecting their image.
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Well, not really. Twitter is filling up with #Gmail posts though and there’s been quite a few postings on Facebook about it as well. What does that mean? It probably means that we’ll be seeing a story on this on CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC within the next hour or so. What this event, and [...]
So I get a call from someone asking me to log on to Facebook and sign up for this game called Farmville. I’m not going to say who the call was from because it isn’t relevant here, but this person wanted me to play the game so I could send them in-game gifts so they [...]
There are some that don’t know that the majority of our most popular shows all are retreads of British shows. American Idol, Shark Tank, The Office, Dancing With The Stars, and a host of home renovating and decorating shows all got their start on the other side of the Atlantic. What always bugged me is [...]
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