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I am a freak for small electronics and the new Asus Eee PC which is both small and priced low looks pretty amazing to handle my day to day needs.  Unlike many other ultraslim ultra portable laptops the Eee drops in at $399 which nets a 4 GB Solid State Drive and 512 MB Ram [...]

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Sometimes I read webcomics and think, “Dead On”.  If you are in IT I think you can relate.
Userfriendly.org Optimism Comic
Enjoy.

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My mother in law was caught on tape reading the lyrics to Soulja Boy’s Crank Dat. This started when an un-edited version was being played at a 6th grade football game and I shared the lyrics with her on my phone.
Without further ado, the funniest thing you are likely to see this week.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DinBIQNisiM

I think [...]

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Yesterday we carved pumpkins and after helping our niece carve a “scary face” pumpkin, I decided to carve a pumpkin inspired by the game Portal from the Orange Box game released earlier this week.
Without further ado, the Portal inspired Pumpkin. (Cue Portal theme music)

And with the lights on,

The images in the dark could have been [...]

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Amber and I were watching 28 Weeks Later tonite and shortly after the movie called for a code red my 360 decided to flash the Red Ring of Death.  Hopefully and I am being very optimistic, the power supply simply overheated and All will be well in the morning.  Much to my chagrin, Amber was [...]

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In case you missed it Google’s Gmail rolled out IMAP yesterday to the rejoicing of Geeks worldwide. I even wrote a picture guide for setting up Gmail on your Windows Mobile 6 device. I finally had the service added to my main account this evening and quickly went about downloading the last 3 [...]

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UPDATE: If you are getting blank messages when checking over IMAP read my latest post for some more information.  In short it appears Google’s implementation of IMAP is not utilizing all of the fields it could use and Windows Mobile Messaging is not handling the lack of these optional fields well.
Google just announced that they [...]

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I saw this today on Digg and loved it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwEXywdSpNQ

I don’t usually get into Robot Chicken but this one is awesome.  If you haven’t seen 300, I would strongly recommend renting it tonite!

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The Dumb Little Man blog has a nice posting on how to get out of a crabby mood. The list has some good ones on it and includes my sure fire way to beat a crabby mood.
6. Make Someone Else Happy. Who could you cheer up today? Who could you thank or compliment? Who [...]

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Amber and I just finished watching 1408.  This movie starring John Cusack is amazing.  This movie simultaneously earns two awards from me.  1408 ranks in my top 20 movies (top 5 scary movies if you are counting) and Movie I never want to see again.
1408 is one of the freakiest movies I have seen…ever.  The [...]

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