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After watching the usual fare this morning on television, I settled in to watch Meet the Press, which I have become less enamored of since the death of Tim Russert. It has become a place where the same old rhetoric, and, I will dare say it, lies, keep [...]

Last night, just before I started my nightly routine before bed, including the watching of Charlie Rose, I stopped by the ZDNet website to see something I thought I never would.

the bright ideas are starting to flow – this is what I’d call high bandwidth…a thought from Mr. Gates perhaps?
Ed Bott is making an announcement [...]

After a few days of seemingly coming to his senses, a popular ZDNet writer is back to praising Windows 7 yet again. I find this very disturbing, as I think you just can’t have it both ways. Either something is good, bad, or mediocre. You don’t get to choose any two of the above.
This is [...]

While many people are very interested in the speed of search, they should be interested in the safety of what they are finding instead.
That’s what the guys at ZDNet concerned with security say, and I would agree. I see that they give a rating of “The Web’s Most Dangerous Search Terms“. The list comes from [...]

It’s amazing how many people like the same things, yet you might otherwise not know it. I was reading an article by Paul Murphy, from ZDNet, and see that he thinks that NCIS is a great program. I do also, but I have never analyzed why. I like Mark Harmon, but I don’t really identify [...]

For those who say that the model that Google uses, with the intent to do no harm, bring value to the customer, and be more useful than other companies, is bound to fail, Robin Harris, an infrequent writer at ZDNet takes a look, and puts the number down, in a way that forces the reader [...]

It is amazing how many people are closet fanboys, not even aware of their status, merely because of their excitement over something new. I refer to the case of Windows 7 versus Windows XP. So many people writing on the internet today would have you believe that Windows XP is like that octogenarian down the [...]

I began thinking about this while reading the observations of one article at a site that I frequently visit. The writer had come to the conclusion that there really was no need for anyone to use AMD processors these days, as Intel, according to him, had wrested each and every segment of the performance marketplace [...]

Yesterday, Mary-Jo Foley, from ZDNet, began the cycle of FUD that will not stop for at least another two years, probably three. With the title ” Windows 8 Starts to Come Into Focus” she begins laying out the idea that Microsoft will be concentrating on the server side of the operating system, and makes little [...]

The ads featuring the shoppers for a laptop (always a laptop) where Microsoft picks up the bill for the shopping spree… hmm, I wonder what choice will be presented.
If anyone did decide on a Mac, that film would be on the cutting room floor in a snip of the scissors.
Over at ZDNet, Christopher Dawson seems [...]

I got up a bit later than normal today, and saw this article, with responses from a few fanboys on both sides, and then a reply from another contributor on ZDNet. It seems that there is dissention in the ranks, as not all of them are willing to fall in line with the wishes of [...]

This morning, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes posted an article extolling the virtues of the very latest revision of the Windows 7 beta. After reading the article, I was very impressed with the looks of the speed differences he was achieving with the newest OS.
I left a message in the comments column, and went about my usual morning [...]

over at PC Magazine. It must be that, because the top of the page has tips for switching to Mac on one side, and a story from John Dvorak about the time coming to download Ubuntu.
Now I have seen Dvorak, in print, long enough to know he has never been in on the hit-you-in-the-face Microsoft [...]

Less than a month ago, a post on ZDNet was found exhorting us to follow ten people who were deemed ‘worth following’ on Twitter, the last stronghold of the insipid and incoherent. This morning I see that someone else is all “twittipated” about the less than universal use of the ’service’.
Twitter isn’t just about finding [...]

Jason Perlow, over at ZDNet, was doing some research today it seems. In an article just posted, he tells of the relative ease with which a Dell Mini-9 notebook can be made into an Apple Netbook!
Is that cool or what! This is the promised land for lots of people, wanting something better than Windows on [...]