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Is this the first of many to go down this path? Starting next month, it will be "TGIT" for Utah state employees. As in: "Thank God It's Thursday." In a yearlong experiment aimed...
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I’ve been testing several different news readers over the last few days, and watching resource utilization at the same time.  A few days ago, Outlook 2007 slowed to a crawl, only to discover one of...
Hmmm…interesting concept for those that may be a little addicted to Sat TV.  Portable sat TV   DIRECTV® SAT-GO ("Satellite-To-Go") combines a receiver, antenna and TV all in one easy...
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The end of an era for P&G…just read this in the local press… Jams and jellies company J.M. Smucker is moving to take over more for of the breakfast table, announcing this morning that it will buy Folgers...
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How are you celebrating earth hour? Looks like Google goes dark... What's earth hour? http://www.earthhour.org/cities
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Are Mulder and Skully returning??? 20th Century Fox has provided ComingSoon.net with four new photos of David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder and Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully in Fox's...
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Facebook is to be quizzed about its data protection policies by the Information Commissioner's Office. The investigation follows a complaint by a user of the social network who was unable to fully...
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I don't know about you, but I grew up with the Brady Bunch. Just read this: Allan Melvin, a character actor best known for playing Sam the Butcher on "The Brady Bunch," has died. He was 84...
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It’s that time again: a new version of Paint.NET! This release fixes a few minor bugs and adds a new, much-needed Reduce Noise effect. You can download it from the website at http://www.getpaint.net ,...
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I've been using Pandora for quite some time. Today BBC News is reporting that licensing issues will be impacting listeners in the UK. Pandora said it was being forced to stop streaming music to British...
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Tens of thousands of Web pages are now devoted to terrorist propaganda designed to attract followers. On the surface, the messages and videos reveal little about their creators. But programmers and writers...
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In a massive legal move, storage and portable media player developer SanDisk has filed three patent infringement lawsuits alleging some 25 companies that manufacture, import, or sell everything from USB...
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Reports are out that Paramount Pictures has begun casting for G.I.Joe to start filming in February 2008. Don't know about you, but I loved G.I. Joe growing up. Filming will be in Prague and Los Angeles...
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First there's this: Pep rally tug-of-war results in severed hands Then there's this: Girl Dies in Tragic Homecoming Parade Accident Both are "Homecoming" events that should be happy times...
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This is the last I'll post on this one. I blogged earlier this morning about a priest being suspended for his um, extracurricular activities, and well, guess what? In an interview with La Repubblica...
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Vatican suspends Italian monsignor over gay sex VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The Vatican said Saturday it has suspended a monsignor from a senior post at the Holy See after an Italian TV program using a hidden...
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Online auctions selling illegal software worth more than $8m have been detected and closed down during the first half of 2007. Anti-software piracy body the Business Software Alliance, which represents...
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Say what? Does your job wear you out? You're not alone. More than half of IT workers say they've fallen asleep at work, according to a new online survey. And, nearly half of techies also are apparently...
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Did you catch this one? A former ABC News consultant fired last year because he couldn't authenticate academic credentials is at the center of a new dispute over apparently faked interviews with Barack...
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Check it out...watch the trailer... http://www.avp-r.com/
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He's back... http://www.indianajones.com/site/index.html
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SUPPORT COMMUNICATION - CUSTOMER ADVISORY Document ID: c01039162 Version: 1 HP Compaq Notebook PCs - SYSTEM ROM UPGRADE REQUIRED: Certain Intel Processors May Cause Unpredictable System Behavior NOTICE...
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Attention all bloggers. You’ve probably seen the warnings before if you blog. From the workplace blog , Laina Dawes and Elaine Liner are pretty sure they were fired for blogging. It's not 100 percent...
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A former college teammate of Pat Tillman is following in his footsteps, leaving a career in professional football to join the military. Pfc. Jeremy Staat, a former defensive lineman who played for the...
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A couple who claim they were bitten by bedbugs while staying at a Catskills resort in July returned for another stay later that month, according to the hotel's lawyer. But Leslie Fox says she went back...
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L.G. Philips unveiled a 100-inch liquid crystal display, the latest move in a high-tech game of leapfrog among the makers of flat-panel screens for televisions and computers. The mammoth new panel, which...
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Mozilla, the for-profit subsidiary of the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation, confirms that its Firefox browser is making millions, primarily through Google's search box. http://www.techweb.com/showArticle.jhtml...
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Didn’t know there was such a thing, but it’s not like me to pass up free food. Do you like pancakes? Is there an IHOP near by? From IHOP’s website : FREE PANCAKES! NO STRINGS ATTACHED...
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It’s such a shame. I see that Don Knotts died today at the age of 81. Talk about a guy I grew up with. From Andy Griffith to Three’s Company, Don was a regular in our house. ABC News called...
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According to Digiwhack.com , XBox 360’s are averaging $3,750 each on ebay (because of the shortage of the consoles), with one bid topping $10,000. Would you pay that much? I did a search on ebay...
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