With the federal government about to get much larger, the biggest swarm of consultants, "Beltway Bandits" and the like are already starting to infiltrate the Washington, DC area, home of the US government and your favorite defrag company. They're looking for a piece of the stimulus pie and anythi...

Snydeq writes "For the past several months, Microsoft has engaged in an far-reaching public mea culpa about Vista, holding a series of press interviews to explain how the company's Vista mistakes changed the evolvement process of Windows 7. Chief among these changes was the purposefulness to 'define...

Oh, man, the Brokeback Mountain girl is so broke and bankrupt that she's been forced to strip her clothes off for her latest starring role. Hopefully, Hollywood will get enough Plastic Surgery Stimulas Funds to help out desperate actresses like Michelle Williams enhance their pancake titties. No won...

I just upgraded my Quad Core desktop to Vista64. Also, I added a ReadyBoost 4GB Thumb Drive . What is ReadyBoost? Here is a web article I recently found with a good definition: <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.Mso...

If it is not because of the benchmark result that confirm Safari 4 is faster than Firefox and the rest of web browser, I’m probably still not using full version Safari browser. I do use Safari, but only on Iphone. But before that, there is something I want to show you.  This post was initiall...

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We can't seem to explain how this trio from Italy seems to have a better running knowledge of recorded rock music from the US between 1978 and 1989 (basically encompassing the waves of post-punk, hardcore, power pop, post-hardcore, emo and, most importantly, the entire output of DC-based rock bands ...

The following is reprinted from Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges Into the Universe. Most of the time we're willing to shovel down the popcorn and watch Yoda lift X-Wings out of the swamp using nothing but the Force and a smattering of questionably parsed English, or let Jean-Luc Picard get the E...

I am taking the liberty of re-publishing this piece, which I first wrote in January 2007.  It still seems pertinent to me, and i thought I’d see if anyone else also thought so. The Wisdom of Crowds, by James Surowiecki.  He delivered the keynote presentation at last November’s KMWorld 20...

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