Posted in News, Business, Politics, Places, Fun, Tech News, Friends, General on May 31st, 2007
Google continues its latest shopping spree with the acquisition of Spanish photo-sharing community website Panoramio.
Users of Google Earth will be familiar with the small blue and white compass icons dotted all over the map that open up a photo of a specific location when clicked on. The Panoramio layer of location-tagged photos was added to […]
Posted in News, Business, Politics, Video, Places, Links, Tech News, General on May 31st, 2007
The city of Peoria, IL has the second largest population of Lebanese people in the state outside of Chicago. When Isreal started bombing Lebanon in mid-July 2006, many Peorians found themselves fleeing their native country in order to avoid the attacks on the country. This piece details two families, the Abi-Akar family and the Koury […]
Posted in News, Business, People, Fun, Tech News, General on May 31st, 2007
Microsoft Corp. has taken the wraps off “Surface,” a coffee-table shaped computer that responds to touch and to special bar codes attached to everyday objects.
The machines, which Microsoft planned to debut Wednesday at a technology conference in Carlsbad, Calif., are set to arrive in November in T-Mobile USA stores and properties owned by Starwood Hotels […]
Posted in Business, Politics, News, Tech News, Links, General on May 31st, 2007
Most of the Novell/Microsoft patent deal is now out in the public. With this, the veil has been lifted in part from this controversial patent partnership.
With this unveiling we now know that there is still no proof, other than Microsoft’s flat unsupported statement, that Linux violates any of Microsoft’s patents. We also know that it […]
Posted in Business, News, Tech News, General on May 31st, 2007
As users store more data online, hackers are finding ways to break into the new service sites. Experts say the problems are deep-seated.
If you’ve spent time using Google Docs & Spreadsheets, you’re familiar with the service’s great features. You are also familiar with a semiregular ‘Disconnected’ error that forces you to toss out your recent […]
Posted in Video, News, Business, Politics, Places, People, Links, Tech News, Friends, General on May 27th, 2007
I have been searching all over the internet for republican videos that I can put in the 2008 Election area in videos; and I cannot find any political sites, EXCEPT youtube.com that have them. Frankly, I do not want to copy the code.
A lot of the Democrat sites have given the videos out in MOV, […]
Posted in News, Business, Politics, People, Friends, Links, Tech News, Family, General on May 27th, 2007
I just took a political test to check out where I stand .. and this is what it said …
You are a
Social Moderate
(50% permissive)
and an…
Economic Liberal
(33% permissive)
You are best described as a: Centrist (33e/50s)
Link: The Politics Test
So what do you think? Frankly, I think it is full of […]
Posted in People, News, Business, Friends, Family, Links, Tech News, General on May 25th, 2007
Now I know that I feel weird saying this; but I am going to say it anyway. But the CPU’s out there were made for the generation of today. When you get a great parent or grand-parent behind one, eager to learn all about todays technology - it can turn into a nightmare.
It is not […]
Posted in News, Business, Politics, Video, Places, Links, Tech News, People, General on May 25th, 2007
I was visiting Al Gore’s web site yesterday, and I didn’t know that he had a blog.
I must have spent an hour going over everything that he had posted and also some of the video’s that were in the blog. They were fabulous.
He posted one on http://blog.algore.com/2007/03/519414_amazing.html, and he talked in his message about 519,414 […]
Posted in Video, Places, News, Business, Politics, People, Fun, Links, Tech News, Family, Friends, General on May 23rd, 2007
OK .. The Election Videos section is done. They go all the way back to 1924.
Just go to Videos and check them out. I now have the entire section in categories.
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Posted in Video, News, Politics, People, Fun, Tech News, Family, Friends, Links on May 21st, 2007
I’ve been busy with a lot of videos on this end… I am doing a new section of videos of people who have ran for President of the United States from 1932 to 1992 in the election years. So when I am done with it, I will have about 33 or more of the people […]
Posted in Business, Politics, News, Places, Links, Tech News, General on May 19th, 2007
The parent company of Macy’s acknowledged Friday that its State Street department store, flagship of the former Marshall Field’s chain, is “doing badly.”
Since replacing the green Field’s awnings across the upper Midwest with the Macy’s name and red star in September, Federated Department Stores Inc. has been on a mission to win over Chicago-area shoppers, […]
Posted in News, Politics, People, Family, Tech News, General on May 16th, 2007
Britain’s army reversed course Wednesday and announced that Prince Harry will not be sent to Iraq with his regiment due to “specific threats” from insurgents that expose the third in line to the throne to an unacceptable degree of risk.
Harry had been expected to deploy to southern Iraq in the next few weeks but Army […]
Posted in Video, News, Business, Politics, Places, People, Links, Tech News, Family, General on May 16th, 2007
Youtube.com, myspace.com and other commercial social-networking applications proved to be too popular at the Defense Department for their own good.
Saying these “entertainment sites” were sucking up network resources needed for more critical operations, the Pentagon is blocking access to 13 such sites beginning May 14.
Gen. B. B. Bell, commander of U.S. forces in Korea, announced […]
Posted in Business, Politics, News, People, Links, Tech News, General on May 15th, 2007
The Google YouTube lawsuits for massive copyright infringement are coming at a fast and furious pace.
The latest, as reported by Bloomberg News:
“Google Inc.’s YouTube unit was sued by David Grisman, a mandolin player who once performed with the Grateful Dead, over what he says are unauthorized postings of his music, the latest suit against the […]