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Nookie

May 9th, 2011 4 comments

OK, hold it.  That’s the name I’m going to call the Nook (B&N e-reader) that I’m am buying used on Amazon of all places.  What did you think I was talking about? I have a history of toofless naming of things.  When I was about 8, I got a chicken for Easter.  I named him Pecker.   Hey, I was 8!  I had great parents they only smiled.  My Grams laughed but then she hugged me — no harm, no foul. Read more…

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Calibre

May 7th, 2011 1 comment

Calibre?   You’ve figured out by now that I love cryptic titling.  This one isn’t cryptic in the traditional sense.  It a program.  Today, I go geek.  That’s hard.  These days I’m only a demi-geek or a wannageek.  But, that better than some of you Luddites.  (She knows who I am talking about.) Read more…

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Data — the dark side

April 28th, 2011 1 comment

The other day I suggested to Apple and the brothers do-no-harm (Google) that they could opt on my fickle finger of fate. Read more…

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Opt Here (ancient digital finger display)

April 22nd, 2011 1 comment

Unless you’re back to hiding under a rock, you’ve heard that the smart phone, i-pads, and various WiFi enabled whatever track and report your whereabouts.  That is without permission.  When you take a picture with one, the phone inserts the location by default.  There is no opt in requirement to any of this.   The location file/reporting has become such a topic that Stuart Smalley Al Franken has forward a senatorial nasty-gram to Steve Jobs.  Besides that your android flavor is reporting that and all the WiFi connections you might pass. Read more…

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Patch Tuesday

April 13th, 2011 No comments

Microsoft releases patches to the Windows operating system on Tuesdays.  Yesterday’s release was a hummer.  It is a release you should update in a short time period. Read more…

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It is a series of pipes

March 28th, 2011 No comments

The Daily show made fun of that description of the Internet.  In some ways it is spot on.

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Yesterday

March 19th, 2011 1 comment

All my troubles seemed so far away.  Today, after going through yesterday, that is no longer the theme song.  But, on the good side Frontier being my ISP is a thing of the past — their modem is disconnected. Read more…

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No More Frontiers

March 15th, 2011 No comments

That is the refrain for those adrenalin prone.   Here it has a different meaning.  If you followed my horror story with Frontier in previous blogs it isn’t likely to be a shock. Read more…

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FUKU

March 12th, 2011 2 comments

No I haven’t taken over for Josie during Lent.  Add a SHIMA to that and you get the nuke site that they are hoping doesn’t become a real nuke site.   Read more…

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Politicans

March 10th, 2011 2 comments

Sorry to start this blog with such profanity in the title.  I normally don’t work blue.  Want more profanity?  Republicans!  Democrats!  Federal Employees. Read more…

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