Entries from March 2007

Charging your batteries via radio — no wires required

Posted 03/30/07

Not quite up to Nikola Tesla’s dream of sending electricity long distance through the air, but still a wonderful invention [...]

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Problem with Yahoo groups?

Posted 03/29/07

My wife, who’s a member of several Yahoo groups, reports that for the past couple of days she’s been getting [...]

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The advantages of friends

Posted 03/29/07

Specifically, friends in low places.

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The ITT story — the details

Posted 03/28/07

You may have read the story of how ITT shared secrets with foreign countries. ITT Night Vision, the division involved, [...]

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3400 Circuit City employees killed

Posted 03/28/07

According to an announcement today, Circuit City has resorted to extreme measures to improve its financial performance: It plans to [...]

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Bush comment on eve of Iraq war

Posted 03/27/07

Looking up something else (the use of the phrase “Secret – No Foreign”), I came upon a story about Bob [...]

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Galactica musings (and spoilers)

Posted 03/26/07

If you aren’t a Battlestar Galactica fan, you can ignore this post. If you are, but haven’t seen the season-three [...]

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Katherine Kersten: What the…?

Posted 03/25/07

In an editorial in Sunday’s Wall Street Journal (OpinionJournal), Katherine Kersten of the Minneapolis Star Tribune has written something so [...]

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Back to XP

Posted 03/24/07

Whew. Last night was the last Vista straw for me. I’d been getting a variety of minor errors since I [...]

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Back to XP

Posted 03/24/07

Whew. Last night was the last Vista straw for me. I’d been getting a variety of minor errors since I [...]

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Mars Petcare to other pet-food companies: Thhhhpth!

Posted 03/23/07

“Your food kills animals and ours doesn’t! Nyah, nyah, nyah!”

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From the scary recall files

Posted 03/23/07

I was looking through some old product recalls for a story I’m working on, when I came across this one [...]

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Browser stats

Posted 03/23/07

The latest browser-survey results from W3Schools are here. For both charts, click ‘em to enlarge ‘em. Here’s the broad-stroke breakdown, [...]

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The Net: Don’t have it, don’t want it

Posted 03/23/07

Here’s an interesting stat from the folks at Parks Associates. According to the company’s most recent data and survey, 29 [...]

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Still laughing

Posted 03/22/07

From a collection of best unintentionally funny comic panels:

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Chow for the gander

Posted 03/22/07

Remember that L.A. firefighter who was awarded $2.7 million because he was fed dog food by his coworkers as part [...]

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Fundy fun!

Posted 03/22/07

This could be the mostest wonderfulest thing I’ve ever read from a Christian extremist ever: From a post to SmashBoards.com: [...]

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Why I hate Steve Bass

Posted 03/21/07

He sends me to sites like this.

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Yer news lede of the day

Posted 03/20/07

LONDON (AP) — A first-class passenger on a flight from Delhi to London awoke find the corpse of a woman [...]

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Oh, my head

Posted 03/19/07

The apocalypse is upon us.

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