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Archive for July, 2006

The “Fount” Of Wisdom?

Friday, July 21st, 2006

I can’t even write a teaser for this. It’s too insane.

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Today is the THIRD ANNIVERSARY of poweredbycoffee.net in it’s present form. It’s been a fun - if sometimes sporadic ride. Everybody goes through writing block once in a while - or are just too busy.
Thanks to my readers first of all. When I read the statistics reports, I can’t believe so many […]

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Should I Be Disturbed?

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

Because I’m going away for two weeks starting this weekend (I put that in bold so you’d notice it if you didn’t notice the other day) I went out and bought the AC “charger” for my iPod Nano today. I thought I was going to buy one of those cheap generic chargers, but it […]

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Pirates Of The Box Office

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

I don’t go to movie theatres much. But I was with a friend last night and we scooped up another friend and we went to see Pirates. For two of us (including myself) it was the first time.
I enjoyed it. It’s worth the hype. I found the whole cannibal scene in […]

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Another Heavenly Piece Of Software

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

I hate the Windows Logo key. It never fails that I’m inside a game or some other “full screen” application and I whack it by accident when I mean to hit the Alt or the Control key. Solutions exist, but most of them are commercial.
I found a lovely little program called SharpKeys. […]

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It’s a shame they couldn’t have fished the plug out of his mouth. Yeah Siren. I love snakes.
Story here.

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Highly Recommended Disk Space Freeware

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

I’ve recently been going through a series of “panic modes” over the last couple of weeks because my main 80 gig drive has been getting full. Repeatedly. I never thought I’d fill the 80, but I have… more than once.
I went looking for software to search for large files and found that most […]

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