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Since I’m a day late to wish everyone happy Thanksgiving, I’m going to wish everyone a happy Black Friday.

Did everyone go shopping? I finally bit the HDTV bullet and bought my first plasma. It should be here sometime next week. I’m really excited to replace my 27″ current TV. More on that later…

Staples had there again great price on internal hard drives at $19.98 for 200 GB after rebate. I picked up another 4 this year as I seem to fill up that many in the course of a year. Pretty soon I’m gonna have to get bigger drives because having all these file servers in the basement is starting to suck up electricity…

Anyway what did you find out shoping today?

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I’ve decided to find out what all the hype about Feedburner is about.

Here is my Feedburner RSS feed:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Midspot

Subscribe.

Thanks!

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. – A church that wanted to do something special for Hurricane Katrina victims gave a $75,000 house, free and clear, to a couple who said they were left homeless by the storm. But the couple turned around and sold the place without ever moving in, and went back to New Orleans.

“Take it up with God,” an unrepentant Joshua Thompson told a TV reporter after it was learned that he and the woman he identified as his wife had flipped the home for $88,000.

Full Article

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Now I think I’ve seen everything. If this service was just a little cheaper though, I might be tempted to subscribe since I get an awful lot of junk mail and credit card applications.

Kirkland, Washington based company Document Command Inc. has launched its consumer facing web interface for postal mail called Remote Control Mail.
The service provides an alternative to PO Boxes, mail forwarding or
waiting until you get home from the road to deal with your mail. The
company receives your postal mail, scans the outside of what’s sent to
you and provides a web interface to quickly sort through letters,
bills, magazines and direct mailings. Though Remote Control Mail is
targeted today towards niche users, that market size is not small and
there are plans to extend related services to far more users. Document
Command is working on a full scale robotics system that will provide
even more functionality to institutions and mail customers in general.

Technorati Tags: service, postal, mail, scan, internet, website, web, document, remote, sort

I use Google email (Gmail) almost exclusively. I love it. Most days.

Today is one of those days they suck. Slower than molasses on a winter day…

So if you have something urgent leave a comment on the blog.

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A Sheffield man has won a refund from Dell for not installing Microsoft’s Windows XP on a laptop he bought from the PC giant.

Freelance programmer Dave Mitchell ordered a Dell laptop on 21 October, and the machine was delivered a few days later.

As Mr Mitchell was planning to run the Linux open source operating system on the machine, he had no need for the copy of Windows XP Home that had been pre-installed

Wow, I didn’t know you could do that! Full Link

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Not to be outdone by Best Buy’s Seven Hour Specials, rumors suggest Walmart will release 8 Secret Deals.

The first may be a RCA 52″ Widescreen Projection HDTV for $474.00.

Walmart will only show the full monty online on Thanksgiving Day. The 8 Secret Deals will not appear in circulars.

Yay, more hype beast. Expect to see more of these super secret deals oops onto the internet at the last minutes.

Link

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I’ve been talking about this for a few years. Apparently some think it is right around the corner:

Possibilities

We see 3 scenarios for a GoogleOS:

• A web based desktop (i.e. operating system)
• A full featured Linux distribution
• A lightweight Linux distro and/or BIOS

We’ll try to explain each of these in detail – then in the conclusion, make our prediction. What’s more, we think this could be less than 6 months away from happening.

Full Article

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No matter what anyone says, Bismarck is growing in leaps and bounds. I know for sure because the city has added stoplights to four intersections just on my route to work and that is the city’s answer for growth: add stoplights and cops.

What this means for the rest of us is there is more idiots on the road every day. I’m not quite sure why we need cops anymore because unless you are driving a Porsche, you can not accelerate past the speed limit between the stop lights every block and the other idiots between you and the next light.

Anyway my point is that they lit up the new stoplight this morning on Divide Ave and 26th street so watch out and be prepared to stop and be stopped.

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Looks like they kept a few things out of the add:

Extra 7 Hour Specials

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