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Monthly Archives: July 2007
Songs & Such: "I Could be Wrong" by Vigilantes of Love
With the plugs out of the way, lets move onto the song for this week, “I Could be Wrong” from the Summershine album. The album Summershine is an interesting album because it is definitely unlike anything Bill Mallonee or Vigilantes of Love had done previously. The album is a brit-pop album, plain and simple. The band abandoned the Americana sound just this once to write “an album of love songs” focusing on the happy rather than the sad side of life. Continue reading
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Ubuntu-based Dell Computers $50 Cheaper
It turns out that getting yourself an Ubuntu Linux based Dell PC/Laptop is only $50 cheaper than the same computer with Windows installed. Continue reading
Desktop Searching on Linux
Last week Google entered the realm of Linux desktop searching with their release of the Google Desktop for Linux. This is big news for Linux users because it brings the extremely popular desktop indexing and searching tool to their desktop. However, it also means that they have yet another choice in the field of applications they can use to index and search their data. Continue reading
links for 2007-07-03
Synopsis: 25 reasons Why I Am No Longer a Christian (tags: christianity bible interesting religion)
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Google Grabs GrandCentral
If you have never heard of GrandCentral, it is an online phone service, but not the kind you think. GrandCentral brings credence to the “one number for life” mentality. You get a GrandCentral number that you can give out. You can then add your contacts to your GrandCentral address book and then assign the individuals to groups. You can set up those groups so that certain groups can either all or only certain phone numbers (ie work, cell, home, etc). Continue reading
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Changing the World
It seems a lot of people wish the world would change. Be it the geek who wants the RIAA or MPAA to understand that piracy does not really hurt their business, the intellectual who thinks the president is an idiot, or the average joe who things Washington should worry more about a particular issue. They wall want the world to change, and they usually want it to change into some image they have in their heads. Continue reading →