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Entries from February 2006

Getting more out of Outlook

February 28th, 2006 · 1 Comment

There are a few things you can do to greatly improve your use of Microsoft Outlook which is the norm in many workplace settings.
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First Off adding a quality search to outlook. One of my biggest complaints about outlook has been the subpar searching ability of the built in search function. To resolve this [...]

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Tags: How To · Tech

Define: Overwhelm

February 27th, 2006 · No Comments

# overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
# charge someone with too many tasks
# submerge: cover completely or make imperceptible; “I was drowned in work”; “The noise drowned out her speech”
# overpower: overcome by superior force
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See also Josh Smith. I will be posting some more later this week sorry for the sparse updates.

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Tags: Misc.

Toy Story Requiem For a Dream Mashup torrent

February 24th, 2006 · No Comments

Found on BoingBoing:
Toy Story plus Requiem For A Dream equals this: Link. Woody, Jesse, Buzz and Bo Peep go down a dark and scary path. Unfortunately, it’s only available in WMV.
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Torrent of HI Res Version: torrent
This is my first torrent so let me know if you experience any issues.

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Tags: Misc.

Serenity Movie Review

February 24th, 2006 · No Comments

I just finished watching Serenity which is an awesome movie. The movie had a fair amount of suspense, tons of action, and great looking visuals to boot. The hand to hand fight scenes though sparse were very impressive, and the storyline was riveting.
The movie is based off of the Firefly series by [...]

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Tags: Movies · Reviews

Free 40 HR Tivo w/ Year subscription

February 23rd, 2006 · No Comments

Tivo is running a promotion for the 40 HR Tivo box. The cost is ~$150 which includes a years worth of service making the box essentially free.
This can also be used with a multi box discount to recieve 23 months of service on this box.
If you go through with the plan please put [...]

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Tags: Deals · Tech

Possible leak of the Video iPod

February 23rd, 2006 · 3 Comments

Engadget has a article up with a possible leak of the Video iPod or Mac Tablet.

The Article can be seen here
The actual page is down at the moment.

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Tags: Misc.

Bla Bla Bla: We have run out of real news

February 23rd, 2006 · No Comments

Abc and the Boston globe amongst others have been running a story called The ‘Bla Bla Bla’ Heard ‘Round the World. This story is about a lawyer in Boston who was in essence hired then rescinded at the last minute while going through a small email exchange with his would be employer.
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——-Original Message——-
From: Dianna [...]

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Tags: Rant

Make! Magazine Recommended by Readers Digest

February 22nd, 2006 · No Comments

The Readers Digest March 2006 edition has a section titled, “5 Things We Don’t Want You to Miss”
In it the recommend Make magazine which has all kinds of technology projects and other stuff you can, well Make.
From makezine.com
The first magazine devoted entirely to DIY technology projects, MAKE Magazine unites, inspires and informs a growing community [...]

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Tags: Misc. · Tech

Fixing Rear Defrost 2000 Cavalier

February 21st, 2006 · 3 Comments

This past weekend I finally got around to doing a bunch of maintenence on my 2000 Cavalier.
Some guides to note for use in the future include.
Fixing the rear defrost, if you have a 2000+ J body and your rear defroster is not working and your defrost light comes on when you push the button, then [...]

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Best of for New readers

February 20th, 2006 · No Comments

So in response to all the incoming traffic for the Halo 2 Profanity Study I am posting some links to at least what I consider some of th best posts on imjosh.com, And I am having major issues with some PHP files which are protected by sourcegaurdian so writing much more is out of reach [...]

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