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Entries from June 2008

600,000 Laptops Stolen in Airports a Year

June 30th, 2008 · No Comments

Norway probling Microsoft. Everyone has to get into the act. Lo-Jack for laptops? More than 600,000 laptops stolen in airports yearly. How does this happen in these "secure" airports? AD blockers worry advertisers. Why does Sun Microsystems have a chief gaming officer? EBay burned for allowing sales of fakes. Samsung pushing OLED. Look for […]

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Slow PS3 Sales in the News

June 27th, 2008 · No Comments

Bill Gates coverage delivers 1109 articles today alone. This has to hurt the stock. Susan Decker in the news for unknown reason. Intel sticking with XP, hates Vista. Microsoft to buy Powerset. Slow PS3 sales being blamed on thing or another. Should Microsoft be busted up? Rethinking the old idea. Oracle may get $1 […]

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Garden 2.0

June 26th, 2008 · No Comments

I thought I’d post a picture of how the garden is coming along.  The plants really thrived on the hot weather we had a couple of weeks ago and grew a ton.  Enjoy.

Garden 1.0

Garden 2.0

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Will Bill Gates Please Leave the Building!

June 26th, 2008 · No Comments

New top level domains still in play. Look for dot.porn among other names. A land rush projected. 700 redundant news stories today about Bill Gates and how he’s retiring. Cripes. When will it end? Dell adding colorful laptops. What took them so long? Microsoft indeed going on a buying spree. Intuit does layoffs. This […]

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Fiji Government Outraged over Microsoft

June 25th, 2008 · No Comments

T-Mobile pushes home service for $10 a month unlimited. Texas Size-asteroid hit Mars. How do they know? Charter Communications does good deed, stock falls. Gates stories keep coming and they are killing us. Averaging 200-300 stories a day! California doomed if it gets hotter. XP may be available past June 30. Media goes back […]

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16 Core Processor from Sun

June 24th, 2008 · No Comments

167 redundant news articles about Bill Gates quitting Microsoft. Cripes, how boring. Comscore tumbles on Google news. ICANN fooling around with the TLD’s again. Contradictory stories abound. I check out a few. Microsoft pledges XP support through 2014. SUN doing a nifty 16-core processor. Larry Lessig pushing broadband initiative. Germans ban the G-mail name. […]

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Google Android Delayed

June 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

Google Android delayed. Bill Gates getting ink everywhere. It’s ridiculous. The Mac finally gets hit with a couple of Trojan Horse programs. Welcome to the club boys! MPAA thinks evidence is over-rated. What? Toshiba uses Cell chip in a laptop. Prediction: dead-end. Chinese ripping off themselves. Chinese brand-name phones being copied by Chinese. One […]

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Recent updates

June 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

Some recent news, info and updates:

Please welcome the Tech5 podcast to superstitionist.  Five minutes a day for the latest news in tech.  Courtesy of the famous John C. Dvorak.
The garden is really coming along great.  Squash for everybody in a few weeks!
Let me know what you think of this.
Does anybody read this blog?  I know […]

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Cell Phone to Be Used as Boarding Pass

June 20th, 2008 · No Comments

Hot weather in California means no good news. Ballmer making more noise than ever. He mentions that MSFT blundered in the search business. Microsoft says no buying spree. China says its not investigating Microsoft story continues. All this means is that they ARE investigating. Delta to use cell phone as boarding passes. Firefox up […]

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Verizon Goes to 50Mbps Download speed

June 19th, 2008 · No Comments

Yahoo adding ymail.com and rocketmail.com. Apple sold 5 billion songs and wants to top itself with movie downloads. China says no, we have no plans to bust Microsoft. Verizon upping speeds of FiOS to 50 down and 20 up. Nice! Should be perfect for peer-to-peer. Suddenly propaganda machine cranks up the noise to develop […]

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