Posted in Computers on Feb 27th, 2008
Microsoft released Vista a year or so ago. I pretty much ignored it until I was forced to buy a new PC at work. Now, I’m into it. The first thing a bud told me to do was install SP1. So I did. This is what SP1 offers:
Hardware Ecosystem Support and Enhancements
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Adds support for new [...]
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Posted in Health on Feb 18th, 2008
Man, I hate seeing those words. I live as much as possible on beef.
Chicken, pork, most other meats I could do without. But beef? That’s bad
news. However, if one delves into the situation a little more it becomes a
little different I think:
CALIFORNIA FIRM RECALLS BEEF PRODUCTS DERIVED FROM NON-AMBULATORY CATTLE WITHOUT THE BENEFIT OF PROPER [...]
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Posted in Technology on Feb 12th, 2008
Couldn’t help but notice a few headlines that seem kinda connected to me. First, this one:
Everyone keeps complaining about the price of gas. It’s not your local convenience store operator making it, it’s OPEC. They’ve made a killing off our suffering for the last few years. And, it only looks to get worse. Exxon/Mobile and [...]
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Posted in Earth on Feb 7th, 2008
A good eruption is a beautiful thing.
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Technorati Tags: ecuador, eruption, tungurahua
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Posted in Global Warming, Weather on Feb 5th, 2008
A while back Al Gore predicted more, stronger hurricanes because of global warming and won a Nobel Peace prize. Earlier this year an unknown scientist in Russia predicted global cooling would occur leading to the next possible ice age. He didn’t get a Nobel. At this time, China is trying to dig itself out of [...]
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Posted in Weather on Feb 2nd, 2008
The forecast for my home town for Tuesday is high in the mid 60’s with a chance of snow.
Before people get too carried away with global warming and all that stuff, that’s not terribly unusual. The last huge snow we had was almost ten years ago to the day, and was a very warm February [...]
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Posted in Technology on Feb 1st, 2008
Ok, bad take on a great Bowie song I know, but what was sci-fi to Bowie in 1972 is now becoming reality very quickly. The US Navy is testing a new electric railgun that is just awesome to watch:
This bad boy propels a slug, or whatever need be, by generating an electric burst of 10 [...]
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