Archive for March 5th, 2008
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A few posts back I was talking about a class action lawsuit against Microsoft over the vista operating system and the way they handled it. Thing is, I didn’t see anything in the article that [...]
March 5th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Financial, Misc, Websites | Comments Off
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I just read something on a website that I found by following a link from slashdot that I cannot for the life of me understand why it’s not headline news all over the place. Researchers have discovered a gene that blocks the spread of HIV.
It’s really simple sounding, when this [...]
March 5th, 2008 | Posted in Tech, news, science | 2 Comments
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One of the sites I ran into in the course of today’s surfing is graduateriche.com, which after I took a second to work out the pronunciation, sounded interesting enough for a look. It’s about letting people know that Nouveau Riche University, a Real Estate Investment College, was featured in the [...]
March 5th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Misc, Websites | Comments Off
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I saw a question asked recently “Has Vista lost all credibility?” and I have to say that I think that the only possible answer is a resounding, practically screaming “YES!”
The reasons for this of course are plentiful. Start with the over the top “security” functions that do more to irritate [...]
March 5th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Computers, Electronics, Financial, Hardware, Opinion, Programming, news, software | Comments Off
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Not too long ago our area was hit by a tornado. As you might expect, there was a lot of damage, everything from trees uprooted and torn apart to houses destroyed or damaged. The one story that I found the most impressive was a lady that saw several cars [...]
March 5th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Misc | Comments Off
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That’s right. According to a recent article on slashdot,
A Japanese government panel is proposing to govern influential, widely read news-related sites as newspapers and broadcasting are now regulated.
Any time a government starts getting into the business of controlling news in any form, you’re headed down a road to an [...]
March 5th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Freedom of Speech, Internet, Opinion, news | Comments Off