Misc

Blog For Books

September 4, 2009

I get to take a break from Technology today and tell you about my 2 favorite children’s books as part of Blog for Books. Blog for Books is a special day to raise awareness about childhood illiteracy and support Little Rock Twestival 2009. Our local tweetup group, LRTweetup, is hosting a fundraiser for Reach Out [...]

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We hold these truths…

July 4, 2009

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the [...]

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Today is Memorial Day

May 25, 2009

May 25, 2009. Today is Memorial Day. Today is the day that we commemorate and remember the sacrifices of those that gave their lives in service and defense of this country. They chose to stand in the line of fire so that we might have life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It is [...]

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New and Notable

March 30, 2009

Comodo BackUp – Comodo, the company that makes one of my favorite antivirus programs and PC firewall, has released a new FREE backup utility called Comodo BackUp. I haven’t tested this program personally but their site states that it supports backups to network folders, DVD, CD-RW, and FTP. It looks promising and Comodo has a [...]

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Introducing the Coolest Screensaver Ever – PolarClock

March 30, 2009

Seldom do screensavers warrant a blog post but this one is different. PolarClock is simply the most elegant screensaver I’ve ever encountered. I was introduced to PolarClock by a Wired Magazine article and it now runs on all of my computers. At its core PolarClock is a functional clock but what really sets this screensaver [...]

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Let Me Google that for You

February 4, 2009

I enjoy helping people I really do but sometimes…. Do you ever get questions that make you wonder if the asker has every heard of Google? Ever been tempted to answer an inane email inquiry with the Google results page? If so allow me to make you day by introducing, Let Me Google That For [...]

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Server slow? Don’t yell

January 3, 2009

The moral of this story is that if you are experiencing performance issues on a server yelling will only make things worse.

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Computer Haiku

September 17, 2008

These were originally posted on Car Talk‘s website and they are just too good not to share. Your file was so big. It might be very useful. But now it is gone. – David J. Liszewski The Web site you seek Cannot be located, but Countless more exist. Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent, and reboot. [...]

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