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Storage Out of Thin Air It was bound to happen. Not long after Google started its one-Gigger Gmail service, other free email providers followed suit and raised their storage quotas by some unimaginable multiples. Just take a look at these three popular providers: Yahoo – from 6 MB to 100 MB iWon – from 6 — Continue reading »

The Skin Grid Back in the old days in Engineering school, I remember setting my digital multi-meter (a souped-up voltage meter), to the most sensitive voltage level, press the leads against my skin and marvel at my body producing tiny and erratic amounts of voltage. Today Microsoft took that concept one step further by patenting — Continue reading »

Gmail: Spammer’s Paradise? Gmail, the high capacity free e-mail service from Google, is reaching more people everyday. Google made a smart move by gradually adding subscribers rather than opening the Gmail doors and letting the masses stampede all over its systems. So far so good. The most notable feature of Gmail is the one Gigabyte — Continue reading »

A Future Without Oil With the insatiable appetite of the world for fossil fuel, it's no wonder people are so nervous about the recent jumps in oil prices. Today the world economy is so tightly linked to oil and its byproducts, that living without it is plain unimaginable. It's difficult to believe that the human — Continue reading »

The Insidious Credit Card I make a concerted effort to pay off my credit card bills every month. It’s a challenge but I simply have a moral issue paying outrageous usuries to these fattened institutions while many of their customers have to scrape bottom to come up with minimum payments. If hamburger joints can be — Continue reading »

The All-Season SPAM Harvest For the past two years I have had a closely guarded yahoo account that I've used for personal business. I gave it an esoteric name to thwart spammers from guessing the account. Imagine my surprise when a couple of weeks ago I opened my inbox and was greeted by a torrent — Continue reading »

Trusting the Trustworthy It’s been over two years since Microsoft announced plans to make their products secure. Since then continuous stream of new and increasingly vicious viruses and worms have crawled their way into our computers and the trend doesn’t appear to be stopping (or even diminishing) any time soon. Okay, so we knew all — Continue reading »

My Wal-Mart Story I've been to a Wal-Mart a total of only three times. Each time I have come away with a feeling that I wasted my time and should have gone elsewhere to get what I needed. My last trip was to purchase gym shoes for my children. After wading through isles of "cheap" — Continue reading »