November 3, 2010

Wambooli is 13

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Oops! I forgot, but last Monday was marked the end of the 14th year that the Wambooli web site has been up on the Internet.
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November 1, 2010

Can Google Predict Election Results?

Filed under: News — admin @ 6:21 am

Of course, everyone in the US will know how accurate this is on Wednesday. That brings up a new round of manipulation, of course: Candidates and political parties figuring out how to engineer search results to their own favor. Ugh.

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Forget Math

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I shied away from computers in high school and college because I mistakenly believed that they were all about math. I was wrong, but that doesn’t help the general issue: Why is math considered such a negative in our culture?
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October 31, 2010

How Google Pollutes the Internet

Filed under: News — admin @ 3:29 am

Google’s founders wanted an uncorrupted, clutter-free search engine. Today they run the world’s largest advertising company. Somehow those two things shouldn’t be mixed.

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October 30, 2010

LO

Filed under: News — admin @ 5:35 am

Today is the 31st anniversary of the first email message. It was to send the word log, but the system crashed before the G could be sent.

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October 29, 2010

Russia Jails Spammer

Filed under: News — admin @ 7:46 am

Authorities in Russia have sentenced a notorious spammer to prison. The net result is that the world’s spam email is lighter by nearly 30 percent. That must have been one impressive email account that jerk had!

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This Is Stupid

Filed under: Main — admin @ 12:01 am

I use Steam. I enjoy the games from Valve, and I have accounts for myself and all my kids. In fact, I just purchased the prerelease of the game Call of Duty: Black Ops. My kids are thrilled, but Steam support sucks.
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October 28, 2010

Farmville-Playing Mom Kills Baby

Filed under: News — admin @ 7:45 am

This is just sad and stupid, but apparently Mom was angry that her three-month-old was crying, interrupting her fascinating game of Farmville. So the devoted mother shook the little boy to death. There is no punishment cruel enough for this bitch.

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October 27, 2010

Death of the PC

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This has been predicted before.
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October 25, 2010

Blue in the Tooth

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I’ve not really used Bluetooth for anything until this year. Never had a reason, never really had a computer that was Bluetooth capable, never really had any Bluetooth gizmos.
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