To me nothing signifies the arrival of warm weather like the smell of my neighbors searing pork, beef and chick on their back decks. For me though I try and use my grill at least once a week year round. Rain, shine or 3 feet of snow I go out and light off my propane [...]
Apple seems to always be very quiet about new products coming out. But they are also very good at creating a buzz for products that they intend to release. Earlier this year at MAC World Steve Jobs announced the newest product that they are releasing next month. The iPhone announcement is expected to be on [...]
On 05.09.07, In Tech, by blantonious
Yahoo Photos is destined for the Web scrap yard later this year. But don’t worry its not because Yahoo isn’t going to store your photos and make really cool applications for you to make and share photo gallery’s. In fact they are getting rid of the boring and making way for the more exciting service [...]
Before my career in I.T., before my life in the Navy was my life ambition was to be the worlds greatest stock broker or fund manager. See 20 years ago the only computers I ever got to touch were Apple IIe’s and they didn’t bring much excitement for me. So I thought that I was [...]
On 05.05.07, In Entertainment, by blantonious
Not sure how the folks over at Google decide what gets a special holiday logo, but my vote is in for all the major partying holidays. If anyone over at Google is reading this I would like to petition a Google Logo for Mardi Gras and Cinco De Mayo. At least Yahoo picked up the [...]
A year after the police raid of The Pirate Bay prosecutor HÃ¥kan Roswall made a statement saying the he intends to press charges. During the size last year 180 servers were siezed along with 3 admin held in captiivity for several hours. The charges The Pirate Bay faces are for breaches of copyright law, for [...]
On 05.04.07, In Interwebs, by blantonious
Microsoft (MFST) has reportedly asked Yahoo (YHOO) to come back to the table for talks of a purchase deal that could be worth $50 Billion. The software giant apparently is feeling more and more pressure to be able to compete with the search giant Google (GOOG) that is on track to profit $12 Billion is [...]
On 05.02.07, In Ramblings, by blantonious
I can’t think of many people that look forward to going to a dealership to buy a car. For months now you have had your eye on that shiny new convertible or a mini van that the whole family can ride in without being cramped. So why the long face on the day you decide [...]
On 05.02.07, In Interwebs, by blantonious
A huge number of HD-DVD stories from the social news site Digg.com came up missing yesterday as well as the accounts of those that submitted the stories. The popular user submitted news site became flooded with stories relating to HD-DVD and the Hex numbers. As for the cat being out of the bag, well there [...]
Seems Google has changed the name of their personalized homepage today. So now I don’t just “Google” something I “iGoogle” it. Here is an excert from the Official Google Weblog. For a while now, we Googlers have used a bit of shorthand to refer to the Personalized Homepage — a name that connotes interactivity, the [...]
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