Archive for July, 2009
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Waiting periods on purchasing…anything
Our current economic recession has taught us one thing—if we screw up bad enough we can cry long enough until Washington will mortgage our futures to bail us out (and yes, both the Bush and Obama administrations are guilty of this). But if there’s one lesson we should have learned (but ...
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Buying a laptop, and why it isn’t exactly Apples and Dells
It's probably important, in full disclosure, to reveal that I am at least somewhat tech savvy. I use the term somewhat broadly, because while I can open a desktop and install a new hard drive, or install Ubuntu onto that desktop afterwards, I am not the type who can hand code my very only f...
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Zelda steps into third dimension by returning to roots
Just how confusing is the headline to this post? This of it this way—if this headline were the instructions on how to successfully save yourself from a rapidly depressurizing submarine you found yourself stranded in at the bottom of the ocean, well, you’d be dead by now. Thankfully no su...
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Ignoring Sarah Palin is like ignoring Transformers 2
It seemed nothing could knock Michael Jackson from the top of the news heap, but Sarah Palin managed it. This is actually the second time in the past year she has managed to steal headlines from a charismatic black man (well, Michael at least used to be black). However, much like with Jackso...
