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Entries from June 2007

Pulp Fiction Takes on Xbox Live and Brain Age

June 29th, 2007 · No Comments

One of my new favorite comics FanBoy$ had a great comic featuring the Pulp Fiction characters and their takes on Xbox Live V. Playstation @ Home and the issue Brain Age has with the word “Blue”.  As the Author States if you don’t get this I have lost a little respect for you.  Sorry, kinda.
Fictitious [...]

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Tags: Games · Humor · comic

Review Copies of Ragmuffin Available

June 29th, 2007 · No Comments

Tobias Buckell author of Crystal Rain and Ragamuffin is giving away several review copies of his latest book Ragamuffin and his first book Crystal rain to individuals who are reviewers, bloggers or prominent members of large forums. If you want one just leave a comment on his announcement post.
I had a chance to read [...]

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Tags: Reviews · books

Soundpedia Rocks Your Office!

June 28th, 2007 · No Comments

Earlier today I found out about Soundpedia via the PopCandy Blog, and wow this is a slick site!
Soundpedia has a huge selection of full CDs which you can stream. There is also the ability to create playlists and more. Soundpedia excels in having a large selection of new material as well as an [...]

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Tags: Deals · Music

Bill Gates as a Furry

June 26th, 2007 · No Comments

Maxim Magazine has a contest each month to top their caption for a random and weird picture.  This month’s picture is below with my entry for the contest.  If it isn’t funny to you share it with your IT guy.  He will crack up!

Tired of the usual Dual Boot Bill gets works up the courage [...]

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Tags: Humor · Tech

Sprint Slams the iPhone - dubbed the “whyPhone”

June 26th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Sprint sent out a press release this morning regarding the “whyphone” and how it won’t meet the needs of the mobile community. Based on the needs of many business users it is already speculated that the iPhone won’t meet many business users needs so it is interesting to see one of the early barrages [...]

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Tags: At&t · Phone PDA · Sprint · Verizon

Say It Ain’t So Sammy!

June 21st, 2007 · No Comments

Over the past day or two rumors have been floating around that the Samsung SCH I760, destined for Verizon Wireless has been delayed further.  To clarify the phone has not had an official release date yet, but it was generally expected to be releeased before July 4th to the Business clients by those in the [...]

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Tags: At&t · Phone PDA · Rant · Sprint · Verizon

Sprint Finally releases the PPC6800 aka Sprint Mogul

June 18th, 2007 · No Comments

Yeah, It is out, not delayed until August! You can get one online right now or in retail stores in July. I would link you right to Sprint’s site to aid in your ordering but Sprint seems to believe the folks in my zip code can’t be bothered with “options” and tries to [...]

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Tags: Phone PDA · Sprint · Verizon

We Need Tagging Standardization

June 15th, 2007 · No Comments

I have had enough, we need to get the coders behind delicious, flickr, google, etc together and decide how tags should be entered.

Is it a space or is it a comma
Can have two words or do I need to blend them together
can I use quotations, dashes…

Wikipedia on Tag Syntax, there are too many variations in [...]

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Tags: Rant · Tech

BBC: FBI Fighting Zombie Hordes

June 15th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Censored BBC Zombie Article - Public Release - FOIA June 2007

Uncensored Article: FBI tries to fight Zombie Horde
 
If you go to the BBC Technology section right now you can see an article with the headline, “FBI tries to fight zombie hordes”. Since every FBI document I ever see on the net (somewhere [...]

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Tags: Humor · Zombies

Virtua Tennis…Now With Guns!

June 14th, 2007 · No Comments

I used to be addicted to Virtua Tennis back on the Dreamcast, (Damn you minigames) so this arcade cabinet caught my eye in the mall today. Something seemed a bit off though…Guns make for interesting Tennis Controllers…

The game in the cabinet is actually Point Blank 2, a shoot’em up game which appeared to be [...]

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Tags: Games · Humor