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Russians in Orbit
… or going to Mars. They’re working on some new ideas, with Soyuz as the only remaining vehicle. (0)Some Gadgets You Don't Need
… by Gadgetbox. I think the bike book holder sounds promising. (0)HP Has Plans for webOS
As the owner of a Palm Pixi, which I’ll admit I only own because Sprint brought the price down to $0, I’m glad to see that HP has big plans for webOS. (0)Eco House on Wheels
I could live in one of these. (0)A Helicopter for Your Video Camera?
According to Gizmag, there is one! I have a hard enough time holding one in my hand and getting any useful video! (0)
Monthly Archives: May 2008
Getting Ideas via Twitter
I’ve become much more appreciative of Twitter as time goes on (my profile is here) as time goes on. At first it seemed like a waste of time, but I decided to try it. In looking around for folks who … Continue reading
Can You Make a Living on eBay?
This relates the two halves of my business life, my publishing company, Energion Publications, and this company, Neufeld Computer Services. A year or so ago someone approached me wondering if he could get a good discount on some of our … Continue reading
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More Uses for Twitter
This post has some more links on productive use of twitter.
Testing a new Verification Plugin
I have just installed Are You for Real?, a plugin by Chris Poirier that tries to verify that a real human is making comments. At the same time I’m relaxing ordinary comment moderation to the point where it will generally … Continue reading
Using Twitter
I’ve been on twitter for a couple of weeks now, and I find that it’s very hard for me to do. I simply don’t think in the short form that’s required. Nonetheless, it appears to be a good way to … Continue reading
Watching the Future Arrive
Hmm! I guess we do that all the time. In this case, I’m talking about the future of the PC. Or data processing in general. Whatever. I read this story about Google automatically identifying and blurring faces, and it reminded … Continue reading
Mobile TV Anyone?
I have samples of the ability to watch TV on my Palm Centro, but frankly I’m not that dedicated to TV watching in the first place, and in general the picture looks too small for me. But this may be … Continue reading
Improving Your Blog
This is an interesting place to post this, as I don’t really do my best work on this blog. Here I simply put information that is useful to my clients and a few other technical things that interest me. But … Continue reading
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Hacking Turned Nasty
“Turned” nasty? I think hacking is nasty in general. It has been hard to change people’s attitudes toward hackers and copyright violators, because the damage is generally not physical. But the fact is that hackers and spammers cost businesses money. … Continue reading
Concerns with Ubuntu Hardy Heron
I would really like to be able to recommend to a small business client that they adopt Linux because it is lower cost. I have been able to recommend OpenOffice.org to a number of folks, and have even had it … Continue reading
