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Sarah Palin, your fifteen minutes are up — please step away from the podium

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

When Senator McCain announced his running mate more than a month ago, the world was taken by surprise. News agency, tabloid writers, people like you and me, all started researching and Googling what Governor Palin is all about. Now, with more than 20 million hits under her name, we “know” her just a [...]

Weather: Happy -1 celsius 2007

Sunday, November 11th, 2007

This is the first day of sub-zero temp, seen @ 2:00 am. It’s going to be a fine day =)

iPhone OS as leaky as WinXP?

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

I guess if the demand is there, crack will happen one way or another. I’m just amazed hackers really try literally everything… I mean, Safari’s ability to load TIFF is a vulnerability? It’s just mind boggling … good thing I’m not a programmer anymore =)

New Jack Bauer Fact

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

Jack Bauer don’t need no sobriety to drive heavy machinery!
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Isn’t it too late if she is already IN the airport?!

Monday, September 24th, 2007

Troopers arrested an MIT student at gunpoint Friday after she walked into Logan International Airport wearing a computer circuit board and wiring on her sweatshirt. Authorities call it a fake bomb; she called it art. – MSNBC

The sequence of events that led up to Star Simpson’s arrest are as followed:
1) Simpson decided to wear her [...]

Sixth Year Anniversary of 9/11/01

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

- Osama bin Laden released a couple videos, but nothing Earth shattering.
- The US is still spending millions per day, fighting a war in Iraq that might never end like Vietnam.
- People are dying everyday in Iraq from Improvised Explosive Devices and US wants to spend more money to build better tanks and send in [...]

Teen Miss South Carolina is America’s New Education Representative

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

Clocked in at 11 million views on the original and more than a million on most randomly spawned Miss South Carolina clips ~ Lauren Caitlin Upton is now famous. More famous than whoever it is that won 1st place. I doubt she wanted to represent the dumb people of America, but hey, Jessica [...]

Our need to live in a logical world

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

By now, we all heard of the shooting that took place in Virginia Tech by the 23 year old Cho Seung-Hui. CNN reported that he was an angry man and needed help by all accounts. His professors stated his writings were too angry, and fellow classmate posted some of “macabre” writings online for [...]

Ooo! The hybrid hard drive shipped!

Friday, March 9th, 2007

According to an article from Computer World, the hybrid hard drive introduced by Samsung a year+ ago with lots of flash memory in conjunction with the traditional magnetic platters is being shipped to the market now to support Vista. This is great news! When there’s TabletPC with this harddrive + Vista + a [...]

Anna Nicole Smith just died a few hours ago…

Friday, February 9th, 2007

And it’s on the front page

Reality star Anna Nicole Smith died Thursday after collapsing at a South Florida hotel.
The former Playboy Playmate, 39, was found unresponsive Thursday in her Seminole Hard Rock Cafe Hotel and Casino room in Hollywood, Fla., police said.

Why, I ask, are the general public so interested in her ? [...]