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Sunday, December 7th, 2008
I read on the Gottabemobile site that Microsoft has released the public beta of Windows Vista Service Pack 2. By all reports this fixes more annoyances and also further enhances/fixes the speed "loss" that some claim to have experienced over Windows XP.
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Friday, December 5th, 2008
I beta tested NCSoft's MMO Tabula Rasa, and I thought at the time that it was mostly hype. I didn't have a great experience playing it, thought it was quite boring. Evidently so did the rest of the world. David Swofford: We had to weigh Tabula Rasa against ...
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Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Some of you might know that I have an almost unhealthy fascination with everything Star Wars. In fact, I'm on the board of trustees for the Emperor's Hammer, a non-profit corporation dedicated to everything Star Wars game related.
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
I was reading on Aaron’s blog today about why people blog. I blog because I obviously have something to say and even I think I’m funny. I have a few readers, not a lot. But developing a relationship with other bloggers is helping out a lot. Funny how that ...
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
Well, I just received an email from AOL, stating that: “We are writing to inform you that after Jan. 12, 2009, AOL will no longer support the Xdrive online storage service and the site will permanently close. It is important that you make plans to download your files to ...
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
Well I’m using OneNote 2007 from Microsoft to organize a ton of data. OneNote is basically an organizer, or a virtual notebook. It’s fully searchable, very reliable, and understands Ink technology. It will also handle voice recording, and have a GREAT feature list. I think that this app is second ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Microsoft Word has "excellent" blogging features, or so they say. So this post will be made and edited in Word, including a picture upload function, which is why I inserted the above pic of yours truly.
Blogging with Word is very attractive for several reasons.
Spell Checking. My spelling is ...
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Flock | the Social Web Browser
Well, I'm starting to be impressed. First of all, it's friendly to set up. It gives you prompts for various things, like setting up your Facebook, Gmail, Digg, and other accounts. It bills itself as a social browser and it's not lying.
I noticed a ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Back in the old days, Usenet was a huge part of using the Internet. Usenet is VERY pre-world wide web, you know, it started out way back in 1980 as a varied collection of "discussion groups" that propagated throughout the Internet by copying itself, or syncing, throughout the various ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Vista Ultimate, the 32 bit version. Oh yeah, it only supports 3 gig of ram. For most people I guess this is fine.
However, my biggest issue is running out of ram and going in to swap, and explorer.exe taking up 2 gig of ram by itself.
I was sorting some articles ...
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