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Letterman, McCain on way back to Washington

September 26, 2008

David Letterman Reacts to John McCain Suspending Campaign

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Techie Talk

September 25, 2008

Robert Half Technology, a California-based staffing company that provides information technology professionals, asked 1,400 CIOs nationwide for the most unusual queries their help desks/technical support team had received. Their responses included: * “Why isn’t my wireless mouse connected to the computer?” * “My laptop was run over by a truck. What should I do?” * [...]

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iTunes 8- connecting ipod causing BSOD on Vista

September 10, 2008

Lots of unhappy campers. http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1701063&tstart=0 Update. Apple reissued iTunes to fix the BSOD issue on Windows Vista due to iTunes buggy drivers. Article: TS2280 However there are now two different versions of software and drivers named version 8, the buggy one and the ‘update’ using older editions from July. If you were one of those [...]

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Cheekiest spam comment of the week

August 31, 2008

Blog comment: Please, do not delete the given message. Money obtained from spam will go to the help hungry to children Uh huh. Link tested in a VM (virtual machine). Spam in the mailbox was always an annoyance, look what it can do to you now.

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There will always be an England

August 29, 2008

Maybe not the one people have fought for over the centuries… A council yesterday admitted using laws designed to track serious criminals to spy on a family for nearly three weeks to find out if they were lying about living in a school catchment area. The council used the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) [...]

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ESA Hires Former RIAA Lawyer

August 24, 2008

Kenneth Doroshow, former executive at the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA ), will join The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) as General Counsel in September 2008. The ESA continues to attract and recruit the brightest individuals. Ken has remarkable expertise in the protection of intellectual property and an excellent understanding of the increasingly connected, dynamic, [...]

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VMware Update caused license to expire

August 13, 2008

VMware’s CEO, Paul Maritz, released a letter yesterday, apologizing to customers and explaining the problem. Last night, we became aware of a code issue with the recently released update to ESX 3.5 and ESXi 3.5 (Update 2). When the time clock in a server running ESX 3.5 or ESXi 3.5 Update 2 hits 12:00AM on [...]

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New Theme

August 11, 2008

Thesis  One of my all time favorites by Chris Pearson was/is CopyBlogger. His themes are always a joy to work with.

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MGX: Ballmer, Ozzie rock

July 22, 2008

And I thought the MVP Global Summit was huge. Annual Microsoft Global Exchange (MGX) This year it was in Atlanta, where 13,000 Microsoft employees, sales and marketing types, and evangelists gathered…

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My local pet store bit the dust

June 2, 2008

Perhaps another small business victim of Walmart’s low prices in a small town. Now there is nowhere to take the baby hamsters, the birds, buy crickets and fish; no animal store to receive one on one service with friendly banter and hear pet stories that make your day. Just an ugly box in town with [...]

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