Last weekend brought the sad news of a young woman dying just short of the finish line of the London marathon. She was running for a good cause - suicide prevention - at had collected about $700 then, now standing at over $1 million with the outpouring of support from people. There are some who — Continue reading »
Gmail Storage Jumps to 10G
📆 April 25, 2012
Today I noticed my Gmail storage had jumped form 7.5G to 10G. Maybe it's Google's way of compensating for the new ugly design. I suspect in most cases users didn't even notice the change and for even more users like me, who try to keep their account clean, this is really not much of an — Continue reading »
Gmail Forces New Look
📆 April 23, 2012
The good times are over and the ugly Gmail era has dawned. Google finally made good on the threat of making the new look permanent. Over the weekend my Gmail style switched to the new ugliness and there was no longer an option available to revert to the old look as before. I can whine — Continue reading »
Speculators of Futures
📆 April 22, 2012
There's little doubt that speculators, specifically commodity players, have a huge hand in the price swings of the items we use every day. The below article link suggests that as much of a quarter of the price of gasoline is due to speculators driving up the price of oil. That's not so hard to believe. While — Continue reading »
Amazon, a 'Predator'
📆 April 16, 2012
Kudos to this publisher for having the courage and vision to remove its titles from Amazon.com. This is what the CEO of the publishing company said of Amazon: Amazon is squeezing everyone out of business. I don’t like that. They’re a predator. We’re better off without them. Google's mantra of "don't be evil" should really — Continue reading »
Fedora 16 Pain and Confusion
📆 April 5, 2012
When I recently installed Fedora 16 on an experimental server at work, it felt like dealing with a whole new platform. Prior to version 16, my last install was version 14 and things seem to have been in their familiar places. With 16 I was suddenly dumbfounded, like starting to learn Linux anew. I am — Continue reading »
YouTube Collection - April 1
📆 April 1, 2012
As I started to watch the clip about YouTube collection I thought, wtf? Why would anyone order a DVD collection of all YouTube videos? As the April Fool's joke quickly dawned on me, I wondered how much data YouTube actually has and how many DVD's it will fit on. I certainly have no idea, but — Continue reading »
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