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June 2010
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Snow Leopard Upgrade – Thumbs Up (Mostly)
Read more: Snow Leopard Upgrade – Thumbs Up (Mostly)I finally upgraded my Mac Pro to Snow Leopard. I give it a “thumbs up” because it was a smooth, trouble free process. It took about an hour, and required almost no input from…
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WordPress Upgrade
Read more: WordPress UpgradeI’ve just upgraded to WordPress 3 and to whatever the latest version of Gallery 2 might be. Both went “sort of” smoothly, though there was a bit of gear grinding to get the two…
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Blu-Ray will be a niche market
Read more: Blu-Ray will be a niche marketSeveral months ago we bought a Sony BDP-BX2 Blu-ray player. I duly upgraded my Netflix account to send us Blu-ray disks. A couple of months later I switched it back to DVD-only rentals. I…
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Yet another reason to shun HP products
Read more: Yet another reason to shun HP productsAbout ten years ago I discovered that I couldn’t use more than one HP product on my computer at a time. I had an HP printer and I’d bought an HP scanner. But the…
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Losing the Hastings Star Gazette
Read more: Losing the Hastings Star GazetteOK, no, the Star Gazette newspaper is still there. At least, we’ve received recent issues. But the Star Gazette on-line version has gone through a misguided makeover. I remember being to reach articles just…
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Saving the News
Read more: Saving the NewsThere’s an article in Atlantic about the decline in the news industry and the rise of Google, news and all. The article, like most Big Media coverage of the topic, focus on the risk…
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The Peak of Woods: a Foretaste of the Oil Peak?
Read more: The Peak of Woods: a Foretaste of the Oil Peak?Slashdot pointed me at a fascinating article on the deforestation of the planet: Peak Wood: Nature Does Impose Limits | Miller-McCune Online. I hadn’t appreciated the role of forests in causing relocation of native…
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