Entries from January 2007
Windows Vista Upgrade Flowchart: BRILLIANT!
January 31st, 2007 · No Comments
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Database pioneer Jim Gray missing at sea
January 31st, 2007 · No Comments
David Pescovitz:
Database pioneer James Gray, winner of the 1998 Turing Award and founder of Microsoft’s Bay Area Research Center, is missing off the coast of Northern California. On Sunday, he set out alone on his 40-foot sailboat to the Farallon Islands where he intended to scatter his late mother’s ashes. He hasn’t returned. The US [...]
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Spanning Sync announces public beta
January 31st, 2007 · No Comments
Filed under: Software, Productivity, Internet Tools
Charlie Wood from Spanning Sync, the ‘missing link’ software we mentioned back in November that can keep iCal and Google Calendar n’sync, just let us know that a public beta (version 1.0b11) is now available (zip download link). Getting started with iCal + gCal syncing bliss is simple:
Download the aforementioned [...]
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UK Mac vs PC ads
January 30th, 2007 · No Comments
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Senator Webb to Secretary Rice: “Is it the position of this administration that it possesses the authority to take unilateral action against Iran, in the absence of a direct threat, without congressional approval?”
January 30th, 2007 · No Comments
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(Via Reddit.)
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iWoz: I cant put this book down….
January 30th, 2007 · No Comments
Due to our slow-ass mailroom here at GMU…I started reading iWoz last night and I cannot put this book down. Its captivating to hear the story of how this son of an engineer grew up in the 60s and 70s and basically invented the personal computer using spare parts he could get his hands on. [...]
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Hipster Shuffle
January 30th, 2007 · No Comments
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Women gives birth, wakes up without arms or legs
January 30th, 2007 · No Comments
A young lady goes to the hospital to give birth and wakes up without arms or legs. The hospital refuses to explain why they left her as a multiple amputee. In a letter, they wrote that she would have to sue them to find out what happened. She can’t even carry her newborn child. Help [...]
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Bill Gates on the Daily Show promoting Vista
January 30th, 2007 · No Comments
Bill gates was on the Daily Show tonight promoting Vista and it was quite funny. One thing I had hoped for was a John Hodgeman appearance, but alas, it was not meant to be.
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Town Declares Stephen Colbert Day
January 29th, 2007 · No Comments
With the win of the Saginaw Spirit over the Oshawa Generals, the mayor of Oshawa has agreed to declare an official Stephen Colbert Day. Colbert bet the Oshawa mayor that the Spirit would win, and they did.read more | digg story
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