Category Archives: Technology

Nightmare on the Interwebs

Alexandra Petri isn’t the only one having nightmares: Last night I had a horrifying dream that a group of well-intentioned middle-aged people who could not distinguish between a domain name and an IP address were trying to regulate the Internet. … Continue reading

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A Wiki Boycott

Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia. is publically considering shutting down Wikipedia in protest of SOPA. The proposed shutdown has nothing to do with technical problems or money issues, and everything to do with the Stop Online Piracy Act, an … Continue reading

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Electric Vehicles a Household Fire Hazzard.

Seems like the at home Seimens charging units for the new electric cars may be burning down the owners homes. After a house fire in Mooresville, NC which started in the home’s garage was traced the the area near a … Continue reading

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Cyber Wars

The Cyber wars have esculated up one more notch with the discovery that our Predator and Reaper drone fleet has been infected with keylogger virus. The virus, first detected nearly two weeks ago by the military’s Host-Based Security System, has not … Continue reading

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Thoughts on Google Plus

Sometime at around the beginning of July, Google presented their new social network that they called Google+ .  to a limited group of Beta testers. They have controlled the growth of their new network by making the site by invitation only, … Continue reading

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The Falling of a Giant

Motorola. a once powerful company that at one time was a major consumer products company, an respected innovator, a communications giant, a major high tech chip manufacturer, and a supplier of some of the best cell phones on the plane. The once … Continue reading

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Burning CDs

Like most people I have a CD/DVD burner on my computer.  I also have a stack of CDRs. I don’t believe many of use  CDs much anymore. We buy our computers with most of the software need already installed, and … Continue reading

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Google Plus; Pulling Out The Floodgates

Google Plus isn’t such an exlcusive club any more.  They have given users 150 Invites to hand over, and a link so people can click on it and get taken directly to the G+ signup pages.  If you would like … Continue reading

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Even More Extremism

As the Senate debates and hashes out a workable budget and solution to the approaching deficit cap. The radicals have opportunity to to impose their brand of right wing extremism on the rest of the country; “The fact that we are here … Continue reading

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Obama’s Revenge

Obama’s one contribution to reducing the size of government begins today with the completion of the last  Shuttle Mission. Obama doesn’t like us here in Texas, We are the land of bitter church going gun clingers. We as a state … Continue reading

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