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Jon Galloway rips on using virtualized machines as a way to get work done. His point is that we take fast PC’s and make slow machines of yesterday out of them by creating virtualized OS’s inside of/on top of them. In some ways I agree, but in other areas I think he is off base […]

I was passed a link to a recent article by the Wall Street Journal. I remember there used to be a time I respected the Wall Street Journal and it’s responsible reporting, but that time is coming to a close. (Especially after they construed my interview a few months ago…) Anyway, their latest piece is […]

I’m a blackberry user and don’t have much ambition to ever own an iPhone. Regardless of the carrier. (I currently cannot use AT&T as they do not have service here.) At any rate, here is a matrix showing the feature set of both: iPhone vs Blackberry Technorati Tags: blackberry, iphone

I have avoided myspace like the plague since it went live. I saw all the poorly designed pages with music playing and blinking crap everywhere. Nothing but teenagers whining about parents and curfew… A bloody nightmare! So I also stayed clear of all the other knock-offs that have come out since (Friendster, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc). […]

I’ve done close to the impossible. On Friday May 11th, I purchases a domain. I set up a site on the domain that evening. I also posted a couple of posts to the new formed blog. Today (May 14th) I noticed that it was number one on Google search for the two words I wanted […]

Being a programmer, I can always appreciate a well written technical tutorial. This has to be the best tutorial ever written on Regular Expressions: The absolute bare minimum every programmer should know about regular expressions Technorati Tags: regular expressions, tutorial, how-to

I’ve been using Ubuntu for over a year now, and frankly I think it has Vista beat. As soon as my college classes are done this semester I will be formatting my new laptop (which came with Vista Home Premium) and installing Ubuntu. Now that Dell is on board to offer Ubuntu on new Dell […]

Need to recover your CD key from your Windows install or for Office? Look to Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder which works on Vista and Office 2007. Technorati Tags: cd key, key, install

eEye Digital Security is offering Blink Personal Internet security with Antivirus for free as a 1-year subscription for personal and home office use in North America1. This offer is only available for a limited time, so you must act now! Full Link Personally, I’m a big fan of AVG for antivirus, but eEye’s products in […]

The race is on to develop a commercially viable car that can travel 100 miles on a gallon of gasoline. The same group that awarded $10 million to a team that built the first private spacecraft to leave the earth’s atmosphere is expected to announce today the rules for its automotive competition. I’ll be surprised […]