Our local PBS affiliate is in the middle of their pledge week. It’s sad that I know this because I haven’t watched our PBS affiliate for several weeks. The reason I haven’t watched is because they keep screwing with the schedule during pledge week. Instead of showing the quality programming they’ve become known for (aka [...]

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Steven Colbert Beats Women … with the Wii – Gizmodo
And yes, Andy, we know you got a Wii. (But we’re still not getting Mario Kart for the Nintendo DS :) )

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In Joel Spolsky’s article “Choices = Headaches“, Joel went through the design of the Windws Shutdown sequence and whittled it down to, basically, “Let me go away from the computer”. He wondered what could possibly have created the confusing mess that seems to have become part of the Windows shutdown mess in Vista. Well, he [...]

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here’s some of the goodies I saw in recent catalogs for Black Friday shopping:

OK, can anyone enlighten me on why this Craftsman Thermometer is necessary? Outsid of the initial “Oh, look, the walls are 67F”, and the humorous “Kid’s sick. I just took his temperature from across the room” shenannigans, I can’t find this being [...]

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Hope you have a great Thanksgiving!

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A Horse Named Paul Revere
And the kids just love it.

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I think I finally figured out the whole reason why people never suspected Clark Kent was Superman: I took off my glasses and put them on my desk this morning. One of my co-workers stopped on by and asked me if I wore glasses. (Now, to put this in perspective, I have worn this particular [...]

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Red Hat Rejects Microsoft Patent Deal Overtures

I smell trouble brewing for open source companies. I really wish Novell had told Microsoft to bugger off in their patent indemnity overtures.

Are New DRM Technologies Setting Vista Up for Failure?

Aren’t consumers in lock-step with Microsoft, no matter what the penalty? Are rhetorical question headlines really unbiased? Wasn’t [...]

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BBC NEWS | Technology | User paid to uninstall Windows XP
Methinks I should have gone this route on JoDee’s laptop. I still have the shrinkwrapped rescue discs. I never even gave the thing a chance to boot Windows XP. Same with Sarah’s Laptop (HAL) and her new machine (Harry Potter). :) That should at least [...]

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Some random thoughts:

Can someone explain to me the purpose of tinny ringtone samples? Is it to annoy the rest of the world with your surprisingly bad taste in music? It was bad enough when people had poor MIDI renditions of popular songs, but now we have renditions of songs that sound like they were beamed [...]

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