Archive for July, 2007

Equal Opportunity Reporting

Posted by netnomad

With all the bashing I engage in of “extended service agreements” at consumer electronics stores, I thought it only fair to play the other side of the record.
I play an online game with a friend of mine named Jim who is a long-haul trucker in the United States. He games over a cellular internet [...]

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Good News. The Cats Were Wrong.

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She’s pulled through and it wasn’t a tumour at all. They thought from the scans that it was a tumour before they went in, but it turned out to be a piece of the intestine that had compressed. They call it “telescoping” intestine. They said it had likely been that way since [...]

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My Neighbour

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My neighbour is the type of kind old great-grandma everybody wishes they had as a neighbour. In fact she’s been the one good thing about living in this house. Well into her late eighties, she still lives by herself. She’s always got a kind word, or a handful of cookies, or a [...]

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If It Had DSL And Electricity, I’d Go For It

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Some people would call her nuts, but I can sorta see the appeal of this.

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iTunes 7.3 Not Backing Up Your Library?

Posted by netnomad

Apple has done it good this time. Sarcasm intended.
I have been through the valley of the shadow of death in the past 48 hours trying to fix this bug, and I finally have. What bug you ask? iTunes 7.3 (aka “the iPhone version”) produces an “Unknown Error 261″ when you try to [...]

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Goodbye To A Faithful Friend

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We met almost about six years ago. At the time I was impressed by all of the things he could do, but over the course of time and getting to know him, I really came to love him more for his reliability. He never let you down. He never raised a fuss. [...]

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The Simpsons Avatar Generator

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Yes folks, the Simpsons movie is just around the corner and to celebrate, the clever folks behind the scenes have created a Simpsons avatar generator on the website for the movie.
This is not your typical movie publicity stunt. I think this thing has more options than the stock version of The Sims for character [...]

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