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In: In the news
28 Jun 2009The big boss and I were watching VH1’s Top 20 Countdown this morning and noticed something rather interesting. 5 of the 20 videos were by American Idol Alumni. Whether you are a fan of Idol or not, you have to admit it has been a rather impressive phenomenon.
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The convenience of the internet
In: In the news| Rants
23 Jun 2009I recently ordered tickets online for a Broadway show that’s coming into town this fall. I was expecting the price to be fairly pricey seeing as this is a pretty hot show and its the first time that it is coming to our town.
There are some fees that I don’t [...]
Ames Window
In: Cool Videos
19 Jun 2009Wicked!
This perspective window by Adelbert Ames upsets size-shape scaling to produce remarkable effects.
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Customer Service Matters
In: Dumb People| Rants
16 Jun 2009Recently, our CR-V has developed what can best be describe as a cigarette smell to it after it has been sitting closed up for several hours. The thing is, we don’t smoke. We don’t think that we part near a smoking area so it is rather odd that this smell has started [...]
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- Tags: Cars, Customer Service, Dump People
Google Apps Sync
In: In the news| Micro$oft
14 Jun 2009I’m not sure how many people have picked up on an announcement that Google made last week, but it definitely caught the attention of my dev team. (For those that may be new to this blog, I work for a company that offers Hosted Exchange and Hosted OCS services.)
Here’s the announcement.
Google has developed a [...]
Your iPhone Icon is Wrong.
14 Jun 2009Found this site while checking out Chris Glass’s site during the Friday LayerTennis. Too funny, too true.
Why?
You are not an unique snowflake so don’t try to make your icon stand out by “de-buttoning” them on the home screen.
No matter how beautiful you are, you are not better than everyone else by [...]
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Favorite Sci-Fi Movie
In: Cool Videos
12 Jun 2009Those bastards!!!
See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.
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- Tags: Bastards
DTV
In: In the news
11 Jun 2009The day is finally here…DTV is now the standard!
There was so much build up and ads for the first attempted conversion that the actual conversion seems like a non event. If CNN hadn’t put up the following article, I honestly would have forgotten that it was happening.
In less than 24 hours all [...]
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Is there really that much money in it?
9 Jun 2009Disclaimer: I’m not a Comcast subscriber, but I play one on TV
Comcast has me scratching my head. A friend of mine pointed out the following post on the Comcast goofiness. For a long time now they have been messing with DNS and if you happen to screw up and look up a site [...]
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- Tags: Ads, Cheap Bastards, DNS, Internet
WWDC Predictions Follow UP
In: Apple
8 Jun 2009Well, the keynote was today at noon CDT, let’s see how I did.
1. The standard stats of how well the iPhones and Apps are selling Yup, got those. And they were impressive! Something along the lines of 50,000 apps, over 1 billion app downloads and somewhere in [...]
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- Tags: Apple, Predictions, WWDC
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