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Just not enough time in the day…how many times have you said that? I’m looking at the last time I posted here and can’t believe it’s been since July. I’m active on most of the social sites that I’m a member of but blogging itself has fallen by the wayside. Twitter and Plurk updated via [...]

The wife’s old laptop started crapping out so we decided to buy a new one. So yesterday the DHL driver delivered a brand new Dell XPS 1530 to the house. I was a little nervous because it came installed with Vista Home Premium and other than seeing it on someone elses machine I hadn’t actually [...]

Transporting crops from farms to cities uses a lot of fuel. With oil prices continuing to rise we can all expect to be paying more for our food. While reading a few of my favourite sites on Google Reader I came across an article about The Vertical Farm Project. The concept sounded interesting and after [...]

As a regular Firefox user I went ahead and downloaded the latest version to two of my home PCs. I did wait a couple of days to avoid the rush on their servers. Had absolutely no problem downloading it and the installation went smooth. One is my desktop and the other is an older Dell [...]

The Phoenix Mars Lander has touched down. I sat through the two hour live special on the landing on the Discovery Channel. Seeing the joy on the faces of those who have spent years of their lives waiting for that moment was priceless. During the two hour show there were interviews with many of those [...]

A few observations and thoughts…
Recently I’ve started using Google Reader for my RSS feeds. I’ve been a Bloglines user for a while but decided to give Google a try after reading some good reviews. It is still a toss up as to which I prefer but as I think about it I’ve realized just how [...]